Hetty Huisman Brieven aan Vrienden (Letters to Friends)

Korsow/Curacao, Cabaron Press, 1976. A stunning collection of 5 unique handmade artists' books (from a series of 15), containing diary-like texts, drawings and collages. Each booklet was addressed to a friend in The Netherlands while Huisman was temporarily living in Curacao. Staple bound graph books, each 19 x 25.5 cm, 24 pp. with handwritten text, ink and graphite drawings, rubber stamps and collaged photos (Polaroid, Zip camera, Rolleiflex). All signed, dated and stamped by the artist.

Includes: No.2, Pieter Mol, January 1976; No.5, Jaap Romijn, March 1976; No.6, Liesbeth Crommelin, March 1976; No.9, Aart van Barneveld, May 1976 (with inserted In Out Center postcard); No.15, Grietha Jurriens, Aug/Sept 1976 (contains striking collage of Huisman's work 'Clay people at rest'). A detailed list is available on request. *Hetty Huisman (1941-2017) was a Dutch artist working in a variety of fields. She made ceramic based works, albeit with a conceptual and destructive approach, and was a prolific publisher of artists' books through her imprint Void Editions. Huisman published her own artists' books and works by others such as Ulises Carrion (Second Thoughts), Henryk Gajewski, John Liggins. In the 1970s she was part of the In Out Center artists' space in Amsterdam and curated exhibitions in her studio as well as at her temporary gallery in Curacao where she also launched Cabaron Press.