Joan van Barneveld - INTO LONGING, VAST ROCK wholesale and the migration of inhabitants

and the migration of inhabitants from ramshackle wooden cabins to the city

colour & black/white images

Originally intended to accompany a May 2011 conference in London

Urban-Think Tank

The book includes an introduction by the art historian Eveline Suter and essays by Kwade's mother Elisabeth Kwade and author Rafael Horzon

Joan van Barneveld - INTO LONGING, VAST ROCK wholesale and the migration of inhabitantsVisual artist Joan van Barneveld processes deep romantic longings within popular culture. In the absence of people, artist articulates the cultural landscape through a condensed black veil, which creates the stage for a longed for, introverted grandeur. His earlier work energised the poetics of grunge culture, but in recent series it has evidenced a deeper longing for an essential horizon. In Into Longing, Vast Rock, he creates blackened pictures of