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This photograph was also published in the book Show so that a philosophy study was not necessary any more. A
Me, Portraits and Stories, Eighty stories, eighty years on practical advice. At the end of 1973 I started working with
earth. 2016, published by ‘Call me Eduard’. the ‘Material’ as subject. Past and Present Lines is about the
Radio Interview with Hans Zoet on the Soft Living visibility of time, the same subject as in Five Minute Drawings,
Room for VARA-radio, June 1969 1974. In these drawings the time of the material becomes
visible (measurement of time). Each material has its own
Page 37 unique time.

58. 1975, Museum Journaal, nr 6. Correspondence Page 50
between Ria van Elk contra Edy de Wilde concerning
applied art versus free art. Edy de Wilde was director 71. 1961, Art van Westerop working in the Artis Zoo on
of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam at that time. school assignment for the Rietveld Academy.
Art was a friend and classmate of Lysander Apol in the first year
of the art school in Amsterdam (now the Rietveld Academy).
Other classmates were Basjan Ader, Bob Wesdorp, Wim
Schippers, Jan des Bouvrie and Ger van Elk. ‘Basjan slept
sometimes in a hammock at the attic of my grandmother de
Vries in Amsterdam’ (M.v.E.).

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p. 46 - 65 72. 1971, Soft Living Room II, at an exposition in De
Hallen, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem. As a result of
Page 46 intensive use, the entrance had been restored.

63. 1969, textile collage, Broken Sky, ±120×180 cm. Page 52
Collection: Frans and Oda Adams, Amsterdam.
Broken Sky was one of my last figurative works, symbol for a 73. 1991, Circle Segments, art commission for a wall in the
farewell of the turbulent sixties. Hooghe Landt College Amersfoort, 1991.
Photograph: Ferry André de la Porte
Page 48 Publication: 1993, Stichting Kunst en Bedrijf.
‘Art is not any more exclusively shown in museums,
64. 1974, black and grey oil pastel on canvas, Past and palaces and churches’, Din Pieters.
Present Lines, 150×180 cm.
Reduction and concentration on the material as subject 74. 1984, oil pastel on paper, Overdruk, model for
for new work. lithograph to be included in the Multi Media Box.
Collection: Maria van Elk Title of Box: From Source to Use (title from Lawrence
Exposition: 1975, Gallery Waalkens, Finsterwolde. Weiner), edition 200.
Publication: 1975, Marginalien over tijd en illusie Publishing House Bebert, Rotterdam in collaboration
(Antje von Graevenitz), see ; 1975, Nieuwsblad van with Peter van Beveren.
het Noorden, Ria van Elk bij Waalkens (Erik Beenker). The litho Overdruk was printed at the Steendrukkerij
In connection with financial and storage problems related Amsterdam in collaboration with Rento Brattinga,
to the SLR, I decided to continue to work with language. Amsterdam.
From 1972 until the summer of 1973 I attended the Collections: a.o.t. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam;
Gymnasium evening classes in order to be able to study Museum Boijmans van Beuningen; Haags Gemeente
Philosophy afterwards. However Basjan Ader advised me Museum; Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede; Harvard
to buy the History of Western Philosophy (Bertrand Russell) Art Museums, Boston; MOMA, New York.

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