Editor
Simulacrum Magazine - December 2022 - 68 pages

'"Levenswerk" is the work to which a person has devoted most of his or her life to. With artists one quickly thinks of their oeuvre, as can be seen at a retrospective exhibitions or consulted in a catalogue raisonné. Can these oeuvres be separated from the persons that created them? There are countless artists whose life stories and oeuvres are inextricably linked; think, for example, of celebrities like Salvador Dali, Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe, but also such local heroes such as Jan Cremer and Herman Brood. The intertwining of life and work manifests itself in a variety of ways. Artists can inscribe their own personae in their work, for example through self-portraits or autobiographies, but art historians, curators, and reviewers can also devote themselves to a biographical approach; explaining works of art by placing them in context of biographical details. In Levenswerk, we do not consider the lives of artists merely as a context for an oeuvre, but as works in their own right, and we examine and investigate the creation and functioning of artistic personae and images in the art world and beyond.'

Simulacrum is a magazine for arts and culture that serves as an accessible and high-quality publication platform for students and experts from the field. Four issues are published each year, each time with a specific theme. The subjects are always approached from different disciplines within the arts and cultural sciences, and placed in both historical and contemporary perspective.

Contributions by Sandra Kisters, Julia Alting, Luca Penning, Esther Scholtes, Claire Bamplekou, Matisse Huiskens, Alina Lupu, Désirée Kroep, & Bas Blaasse.

Editor
Simulacrum Magazine - December 2022 - 68 pages

'"Levenswerk" is the work to which a person has devoted most of his or her life to. With artists one quickly thinks of their oeuvre, as can be seen at a retrospective exhibitions or consulted in a catalogue raisonné. Can these oeuvres be separated from the persons that created them? There are countless artists whose life stories and oeuvres are inextricably linked; think, for example, of celebrities like Salvador Dali, Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe, but also such local heroes such as Jan Cremer and Herman Brood. The intertwining of life and work manifests itself in a variety of ways. Artists can inscribe their own personae in their work, for example through self-portraits or autobiographies, but art historians, curators, and reviewers can also devote themselves to a biographical approach; explaining works of art by placing them in context of biographical details. In Levenswerk, we do not consider the lives of artists merely as a context for an oeuvre, but as works in their own right, and we examine and investigate the creation and functioning of artistic personae and images in the art world and beyond.'

Simulacrum is a magazine for arts and culture that serves as an accessible and high-quality publication platform for students and experts from the field. Four issues are published each year, each time with a specific theme. The subjects are always approached from different disciplines within the arts and cultural sciences, and placed in both historical and contemporary perspective.

Contributions by Sandra Kisters, Julia Alting, Luca Penning, Esther Scholtes, Claire Bamplekou, Matisse Huiskens, Alina Lupu, Désirée Kroep, & Bas Blaasse.