01 Oct 2012: network network network
Arpsgallery just opened a linked group to network fine art professionals and collectors.

The purpose is to bring artists and collectors together in meetings, workshops, exhibitions and groupshows. We aim at a safe business surrounding and enable all parties to develop their marketing and collectors information.

The group is based on an international art-exchange in various galleries connected with gallery arps&co. We stretch to keep contemporary art on reasonable prices with good payment conditions if needed to help people to build up a nice art collection.

Collectors interested in a piece, you will be surprised by the policy: We offer a 30-day refund policy and a 5-year exchange plan. Our lay away plan is very generous. The down payment is 10% and you have nine months to complete the balance without any finance charges. We accept Visa, Master Card, American Express, Discover, PayPal and personal checks.
Links: ; join the network group!

08 Oct 2009: KEES TABAK Double Portraits now and then
Famous Dutch Pop photographer challenges himself to make a selection of the double portraits he made of well know Dutch.
The show will be on at Dikker& Thijs from 8.10 till 8.12 2009
Opening hours from 6 till 10 p.m. Right in the center of Amsterdam. Prinsengracht 438!
See the site of the artist
Links: ; http://www.keestabak.nl

08 Sep 2009: Arpsgallery attends the OPEN ART FAIR, stand 3.35
Meet us at the large scale Open Art Fair 8-13 September 2009

We will proudly present:3 FLOWERLADIES AND 1 LANDSCAPE LAD: ELIZABETH KLEINVELD, LUISELLA TRAVERSI GUERRA, MARISKA MEIJERS & FRANCO FONTANA

The Open Art Fair is a Dutch art fair for all contemporary styles, from realistic to abstract and all art forms such as painting, sculpture, glass, ceramics and jewelery are on show and for sale. The Dutch and international galleries exhibiting at the Open Art Fair, which are selected on the basis of their profesionality, specialize in contemporary art. COMMITTEE OF HONOUR; Gerti Bierenbroodspot, Henk Helmantel, Ans Markus, Evert Thielen, Kees Verkade
Links: ; see our temporarely blogspot or write for information ella.arps@gmail.com

23 Apr 2008: Vernissage Iceland's Gold - expo till 20th of June
show by the wellknown Italian photographer Fernando Nocco.
The opening will be at 6 - 8 p.m. at the Dikker&Thijs Gallery Prinsengracht 438, Amsterdam.
Doubleclick on the image and you will enter the gallery. doubleclick again and you will have a fullsize picture.
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20 Feb 2008: It Ain't Necessarely So at the Gallery, Prinsengracht 444
Photography Elizabeth Kleinveld Poetry Rogi Wieg

Vernissage from 6 till 8 p.m. at the Dikker&Thijs Gallery, Prinsengracht 438

The exhibition, 'It Ain't Necessarily So,' is a synthesis of Rogi Wieg's poetry and Elizabeth Kleinveld's photography, which together tell the story of the transformative effect of having to rebuild anew. An artist's journey through the wake of Hurricane Katrina, as she searched to find meaning in the seemingly meaninglessness and move on. On the other side of the destruction, her quest to breathe color and "joie de vivre" back into her life took root, and so the series Bloemen was born. 'It Ain't Necessarily So' means that it could have been different, but it wasn't, because the above described mechanism is as old as the world. It is an endless varying rebirth.
Links: ; see more about Kleinfeld at the gallery

06 Oct 2007: Jacqueline Dersjant show in Dikker&Thijs Fenice
This second show in the serial To Be Continued - 2 opens on Saturday 6th. Friends are welcomed between 5 and 7 p.m. at the reception with the artist!
Adress: Dikker&Thijs Fenice Hotel, Prinsengracht 438.
Links: ; www.phtgrphr.com

02 Oct 2007: FRANCO FONTANA 1987 - 2007 POLAROIDS
New Polaroids arrived!
Photography, writing with light is certainly still magic, one click leads through mysterious cemistry to develop and realize an image. But Fontana doesn't restrict himself to just the image, he transforms it to something else, probably curious about other people's life, about moments that are never his, panorama's presumable real but felt differently, dreams that were dreamt by other people somewhere one has not been. Like Elias Canetti wrote what could be the motive of every artist: "Nobody resists without a borrowed life, our own is not enough".
There are landscapes in the mind that surpass those that casually could happen in front of our eyes and they are superior. They are made of so many of those things that we do not even know where and when and how: a book we read, or a song, the memory of a person or the wish to forget, an instant moment or a long run of years, Fontana, with his brilliant simplicity (apparent simplicity, as matters from the mind and from the heart appear in a complicate way) registers this and meanwhile gives space by suggesting to enable us to fill in with our own memories.from our times, with all our own fantasmagoria as everyone of us makes.
Francesco Guccini
Links: ; Franco Fontana: Polaroids

15 Jun 2007: Festival Who was Ele d'Artagnan big success!!
Over thousands of visitors in 4 days.
The catwalk and fotoshoot - show pictures are made by the professional photographer Diana Snabilie, look for more information on her company site www.circleoflife.nu She is the best choice!
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20 Feb 2007: An extreme cup of tea
Lee Kyu Hyung is a professor in 'Ceramic Studies' . His continuous search for new glazes has made him one of the most versatile Korean ceramic artists. Apart from ceramic paintings and sculptures he has designed ingenious sets for the drinking of pu erh tea in Chinese style and other tea utensils. He has exhibited his work in Korea, Japan, China, the USA, New Zealand, Mongolia, Uzbekistan and Egypt and Arps&Co at Amsterdam.
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03 Oct 2006: Vernissages 2006/2007: vernissage Robert Rizzo
at the Dikker&Thijs Fenice Hotel, Prinsengracht 444, Amsterdam. On Show till November 12th.
All photographes are taken by Diana Snabilie.
Links: Vernissages 2006/2007;