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| Private banker Jeroen Hofhuis is a regular visitor to PAN. ‘I’ve been collecting since I was twenty and started with Roman glass. My interest in this was aroused when I read Asterix and Obelix at the age of four. It’s extraordinary to think that objects like those are still intact after two thousand years. I think it’s great that as a collector you can own it temporarily and enjoy it.’ |
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Dr Georges Petitjean is curator at the Museum for Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Utrecht . ‘I’m an eclectic collector. As a Belgian in the Netherlands I’ve chosen a typically Dutch desk here in PAN’s design pavilion. I think it’s fantastic, quite plain and at the same time quite sumptuous.’ |
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| Muriel Vermeulen is a true art lover. ‘I love buying art; you can keep looking at it. If I was allowed to pick out one work now, I would choose something by Lu Luo who makes marvellously colourful works of art from theatrical costumes.’ |
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‘This statue radiates great intensity, it’s one of my personal favourites at this year’s PAN’, says Wim Pijbes, Managing Director of the Rijksmuseum. He is standing beside a bust of Rik Wouters from 1907, made by his friend the artist Edgar Tytgat. |
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| Heleen van Ittersum and Pieter van Doorn’s favourite is the collection of Afghan dishes from the Swat Valley . ‘We saw these majolica dishes in the newspaper and we had to go and look at them. It’s great that you can buy something at PAN Amsterdam for a couple of hundred Euros!’ |
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Marie-José van der Voort and Frank van der Linden also visited PAN. Van der Linden comments, ‘I’m a headhunter so this painting of a worker really appeals to me. I’ve already got another work by a Russian artist.’ |
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| Art expert Adrie van Griensven explains a work by Isaac Israels to a group of friends from university. They were invited to PAN Amsterdam by one of the exhibitors. |
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Jeanette Gerritsma of the Akzo Nobel Art Foundation said ‘These earrings are on my wish list... they come from Rajasthan and were made in the fourteenth century.’
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| Jelmer Boomsma from Grrr medialab admires the light in the interiors by photographer Bert Teunissen. ‘An interesting subject, entirely unadulterated. There’s a story in his work, I think it’s quite extraordinary.’ |
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Simone Remmen is a photographer and enjoys being on the other side of the camera for once. ‘I’m very impressed by these two little Asian statuettes.’ |
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| It is the first time that Wouter Goedkoop has been to the fair. ‘I’m really a fan of icons. Their brilliant colours bring calm into a busy life.’ |
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René-Jan Boon is a regular visitor to PAN and loves collecting. ‘I’m mad about modern glass like this spectacular work by the glass artist John Kuhn.’ |
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| Fleur de Bruyn and Lisa Stibbe already know what their favourite art is at PAN Amsterdam. ‘Photography appeals to us more than paintings.’ |
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PAN visitor Ken Foster is delighted with his purchase of 'Fake Love', a work by the Dutch graffiti artist who works under the name of Fake. |
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| Lonneke Lichtenveldt explains, ‘My parents are collectors, so I grew up with art. I’ve also got modern art hanging on the wall at home. I’m crazy about the bright colours in this work by Karel Appel.’ |
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PAN has a variety of objects on offer with interesting histories. These three friends are admiring a 17th-century blunderbuss, once owned by Nicolaus Zrinski, a Croatian-Hungarian statesman and poet. |
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