Kunsthandel Artist
Hesdy Artist is antiquair met een brede interesse. Zo handelt hij is 18e eeuwse sculpturen, meubels en schilderijen. Maar hij schrikt
niet terug om oude botanische prenten, landkaarten of gravures te (ver-) kopen. Voor Artist is kwaliteit altijd het criterium. Zijn
speurtocht naar mooie kunst of antiek brengt hem regelmatig naar bijvoorbeeld New York, Chicago, Parijs, Geneve, Londen en Madrid.
Eén van zijn specialiteiten, "Black Collectibles", bracht hem
in contact met Buku - Bibliotheca Surinamica. Regelmatig biedt Kunsthandel Artist ook antieke prenten, schilderijen en kaarten aan die
te maken hem met Suriname. Voor liefhebbers van Surinamica is een bezoek aan Hesdy Artist beslist de moeite waard.
Hesdy Artist heeft twee winkels in het chique Spiegelkwartier:
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Antiques dealer Hesdy Artist
Paul Bellaart
Paradox is a "very Dutch thing,'' an antiques dealer named Hesdy Artist explained to me the following afternoon, the two of us seated on plump bergères in a gallery he owns near the Spiegel-kwartier, Amsterdam's antiques district. "In one way, nobody in Holland wants to stand out,'' Artist says, alluding to the prevalent "act normal" ethos. In another, less overt sense, the Dutch, he explained, like it understood that beneath their very proper image an unruly spirit lies barely concealed.
Artist himself is a clear anomaly in some basic ways, at least professionally. "There are very few dark people in antiques sales in Holland,'' says the 37-year-old former banker, whose skin is the color of a ripe plum. "Maybe in Europe," he adds. "Maybe the world."
To browse through Artist's stock of Dutch copies of 18th-century French furniture, or 19th-century English copies of 17th-century Flemish silver, or 17th-century lithographs of old master paintings of slaves, is to conclude that his taste is far from the concerns of contemporary Netherlands designers. Yet it seemed to me that much of the Dutch output now captivating the international marketplace has something in common with Artist's interest in mining what appear to be exhausted veins of history.
The above was take from an article 'Going Dutch' by Paul Bellaart, published in Travel & Leisure (ch); www.travelandleisure.com
Kerkstraat 159
1017 GG
Amsterdam
(+31)020 / 428-1360
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