The latest retrospective of Rob Scholte in the Netherlands took place in Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam: How to Star (1988). More than three decades later, De Fundatie in Zwolle presents Reproduction Obliged, a varied selection from the painted oeuvre of the ‘king of copyright’. Scholte has been preoccupied with the meaning of the […]
Rob Scholte
Rob Scholte’s intriguing Embroidery Show
An exhibition can’t be more ironic than this one: the contemporary Dutch artist Rob Scholte shows his embroidery collection in Museum De Fundatie. However, Embroidery Show may have tongue-in-cheek-characteristics, its underlying idea is absolutely serious. In the previous century, pastors and other positive thinkers used these examples of feminine home craft in sermons and other […]