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All images and newspaper clippings come from the Page 17
archive of Maria van Elk, unless indicated otherwise.
Photographs are made by Maria van Elk, unless 16. 1966, textile collage, Sweet Dreams, 120×190 cm.
indicated otherwise. Location unknown.
Dimensions of artworks: height × width in cm Background: detail from Touching Colours, 1998.
 Reference to the website www.mariavanelk.nl Digital Photograph: Evert De Cock
Exposition: 1966, Gallery ‘Mangelgang’, Groningen;
1966, Town Hall, Winsum.
Notes to the illustrations Publication: 1966, Nieuwsblad van het Noorden
(Rommert Boonstra); 1966, Het Vrije Volk (Coosje
van Bruggen)
The Soft Living Room of Maria van Elk
I have also used the image of Sweet Dreams in a large gouache
p. 9 - 43
painting in a shop window for a food and eat campaign (1966) of
the Bijenkorf, Amsterdam. Anni Apol made the design for these
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shop windows. Colour slides in archive A. Apol.
The title Sweet Dreams referred to the sweet food that was shown
01. 2016/2017, collection exhibition room 0.2 Stedelijk in the shop window.
Museum Amsterdam with work by Martial Raysse,
Roy Lichtenstein, Maria van Elk, Michel Cardena, Page 19
Garden Egg chair by Peter Chycy.
Photograph: Evert De Cock.
21. 1967, textile collage, Landscape, 190×120 cm, with
details from space comic strips.
02. 1967, textile collage, Mamma look at your children, Collection: unknown
187×120cm Publication: 1969, Berliner Leben, Berlin, Germany.
Collection: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
In this work, fragments of astronautic comic strips are
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introduced which were in the spotlight during the sixties.
30. 1967, textile collage, Mamma look at your children,
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187×120 cm, with details from space travel.
Collection: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
07. 1965-66, Marbled paper by Maria van Elk Exposition: 1968, Gallery Punt Vier, Schiedam; 1968,
Also marmbled on luminous range, pink, light green and yellow
De Hallen, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem; 1969,
glossy satin lining silk. From this a small number of ties were
KaDeWe, Berlin Germany; 2016/2017, Stedelijk
made in 1967. These materials were shown to Frans Molenaar
Museum Amsterdam.
who then had a shop at the Van Baerlestraat, Amsterdam. His
Publication: 1968, De Volkskrant (Dolf Welling);
reaction was very friendly, but he was more interested in a
1968, Unknown source (L.W.Schmidt); 1968, Het
collaboration with Bob Bonies.
Vrije Volk (H. Kuiper); 1969, Berliner Leben, Berlin,
Germany; 1969, Junge Kunst im KaDeWe, Berlin,
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Germany.
15. 1965, Maria van Elk, Wittenkade, Amsterdam Page 24
Photograph: Bob Wesdorp
Bob Wesdorp was a classmate of Lysander Apol at the Art
32. 1968, drawing, Orange Illusion
Academy in Amsterdam (now the Rietveld Academy). Bob
Exposition: 1968, Gallery Punt Vier Schiedam
Wesdorp, Wim Schippers and Ger van Elk formed the
Collection: Stedelijk Museum Schiedam.
‘A-Dynamische Groep’ in reaction to the vitality of the Cobra
Donated by Cees van der Geer, the owner of Gallery
Art.
Punt Vier.
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