Ellen Mandemaker - Lichtkiem Spunta
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Ellen Mandemaker, Lichtkiem Spunta, a C-print from 2017, 45 × 30 cm, unsigned, in very good condition, sold by Galerie, in the genre of fine art photography.
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Description from the seller
Photographer Ellen Mandemaker (born 1968) moved to an intensive arable farming area in Friesland and became interested in the world of the potato. The potato is an everyday primordial tuber with a powerful personality but also a compliant consumer product that is endlessly bred, modified and sprayed until humans can cut perfect fries from it. Mandemaker highlights this contrast in her work. She photographs the Spunta, Lady Rosetta, Cronos, Russet Burbank and Picasso, creates stacks and tableaux of the potatoes, follows the life cycle from planting to harvest and took the Picasso potato to the Picasso Museum in Paris.
Mandemaker exhibited this work at the PATATE exhibition in the Van GoghHuis in 2025 and on that occasion donated this piece for the auction. It is professionally framed.
Van Gogh AiR Charity Auction
The Van GoghHuis invites artists to come and work for a while in Vincent’s birthplace of Zundert. They literally step in Vincent van Gogh’s footsteps here, and that yields remarkable results. The artists donate works that are auctioned for the benefit of the Van Gogh artist-in-residence program.
In the run-up to and during the auction period, the works will be displayed in the Van GoghHuis. You can view the works there and, afterwards, here you can also pick them up. You will receive notification about the auction afterward.
With your purchase you support the Vincent van GoghHuis!”}#{
Photographer Ellen Mandemaker (born 1968) moved to an intensive arable farming area in Friesland and became interested in the world of the potato. The potato is an everyday primordial tuber with a powerful personality but also a compliant consumer product that is endlessly bred, modified and sprayed until humans can cut perfect fries from it. Mandemaker highlights this contrast in her work. She photographs the Spunta, Lady Rosetta, Cronos, Russet Burbank and Picasso, creates stacks and tableaux of the potatoes, follows the life cycle from planting to harvest and took the Picasso potato to the Picasso Museum in Paris.
Mandemaker exhibited this work at the PATATE exhibition in the Van GoghHuis in 2025 and on that occasion donated this piece for the auction. It is professionally framed.
Van Gogh AiR Charity Auction
The Van GoghHuis invites artists to come and work for a while in Vincent’s birthplace of Zundert. They literally step in Vincent van Gogh’s footsteps here, and that yields remarkable results. The artists donate works that are auctioned for the benefit of the Van Gogh artist-in-residence program.
In the run-up to and during the auction period, the works will be displayed in the Van GoghHuis. You can view the works there and, afterwards, here you can also pick them up. You will receive notification about the auction afterward.
With your purchase you support the Vincent van GoghHuis!”}#{
Details
Date of print
2017
Artist
Ellen Mandemaker
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Gallery
Title of artwork
Lichtkiem Spunta
Condition
Very fine
Technique
C-Print
Height
45 cm
Width
30 cm
Signature
Not signed
Genre
Fine art photography
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