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Page 25 was pictured. On the floor were mattresses also covered with
dark blue fabric. Soft dark blue hills, covered with a pattern
33. 1968, drawing The Humiliation of abstracted flowers were standing in this space. The whole
Collection: Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. Donated by environment was lit by a string of small electric bulbs like stars in
Cees van der Geer, the owner of Gallery Punt Vier. the night.
Exposition: 1968, Gallery Punt Vier, Schiedam. The textile collage The Conquerors, 1968, is related to this
Publication: 1968, De Volkskrant (Dolf Welling); environment (see illustration no. 38).
1968, Unknown source (L.W.Schmidt); 1968, During the summer of 1968, the Soft Living Room were used by
Unknown source (H. Kuiper). Willem de Ridder to decorate the tea house in Fantasio, Prins
Hendrikkade, Amsterdam.
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42. 1968, maquette in black and white Soft Living Room II
34. 1968, textile collage, One Exists Through the Other, Because of excessive behaviour in the coloured Soft Living Room I,
132×123 cm in which sometimes whole school classes were jumping around,
Collection: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam I decided to make the next Soft Living Room in black and white.
Exposition: 1968, Gallery Punt Vier, Schiedam; 1971, This is the beginning of a black and white period which lasted
KaDeWe, Berlin. well into the seventies
Digital Photograph: Evert De Cock. For the
background of this picture a detail was used from the Page 30
series Colour Tests from Daily Life, 1998.
46. Letter, 1969, from Gerd Klemm, organiser of the
Page 28 exposition in KaDeWe, Berlin.
We transported the work to Berlin in a Volkswagen Beetle.
38. 1968, textile collage in colour, The Conquerors, On the East German border the whole car was searched.
140×160 cm. Even the bottom of the car was searched with mirrors.
Digital Photograph: Evert De Cock. Background is a
detail from Touching Colours, 1998 Page 33
Collection: Unknown
Exposition: 1968, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem; 50. 1969, Invoice from lumberyard ‘Zweden’.
1968, Gallery Punt Vier, Schiedam; 1969, KaDeWe, This material was delivered at my guest atelier on the
Berlin, Germany; 1971, De Hallen, Haarlem. Prinseneiland, Amsterdam. Wim Schippers, Reinier Lucassen
Colours: This textile collage was executed in colour. The box and Stanley Brouwn also had their ateliers in this building.
is in two colours blue with a blue background. The image is During 1968/1969 the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam provided
inspired by astronautics which was in the spotlight then. There me with this guest atelier. After me Gerhard Von Graevenitz
are two types of perspective. The horizon hovers in the air, only used the studio temporarily.
air below and above the horizon. The flowers get smaller all the
time, change into stars/dots and disappear behind the horizon. Page 34
The box/building does not have a backside. For the invasion on
earth I used fabrics with space images with tentacles to the earth. 54. 1969, Letter from the Danish journalist Virtus Schade
Uncertainty about the future of the earth. Virtus Schade published frequently about COBRA.

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39. 1967, drawing, draft of Soft Living Room 1 56. 1969, Maria van Elk in the Soft Living Room in
This environment was approximately 5 meters in diameter and Lausanne, with an interview by Virtus Schade
had a height of 2 meters . The wall consisted of dark blue fabric Photograph: Erling Mandelmann
on which a landscape of bright fluorescent, non artistic colours Publication: Berlinske Aftenasis, 06-18-1969.

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