Draak van het wit
type: CreativeWork
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320128415
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/330134494
abstract: When does fact turn to fiction, past to present, imagination to concrete matter? It is the thread through the panoramic oeuvre of photographer Guus Rijven (The Hague, 1947). Over the past years, Rijven has been travelling to Nagasaki, Japan, for a major research project. There, at times as a strolling street photographer, at other times as a conceptual artist, he explored the ties between the modern city and the artificial isle of Deshima, which, for centuries, served as the only gap through which knowledge and riches could flow from hermetically sealed feudal Japan. 'The dragon of the white' is a solo exhibition by a photographer with a sharp eye for the moment and for detail, who does not shy away from the mystery of what was, is and shall become. Rijven has also documented, as factually as possible, depots at museums in Nagasaki, Leiden and The Hague, containing that which was excavated from the soil of Deshima as well as what the Dutch tradesmen brought home with them in terms of 'depots' during the seventeenth century. So ensues a collection of testimonials and sometimes clashing rest fragments, the combination of which form something complete and new.
contributor: Person
  alternate name: Teschmacher, Winnie
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31037036
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31159790
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31096078
language: dut
language: eng
subject of: Statement
  additional type: lang
  text: Dutch and English.
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300435416
  text: Includes translation
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301308687

PropertyValue
property ID: NL-AmRIJ
value: 308687