Henk Kuijpers - 1 Original page - Franka - Originele plaat 2 Gratis Goud - 2020

F065: Original plate 2 "Free Gold"

Franka takes the ferry to Amsterdam Noord, because she has to go to the film museum. The ferry is classic, but the film museum was brand new at the time, just like the tunnel under Amsterdam Centraal Station and the mixing of traffic flows on the IJ quay. All of it on screen. I also walked around there for two days to photograph all the locations. The story ties into Franka's complicated relationship with the color red. As a child she stands on the ferry, a half meter from the enormous ship wall of a large vessel. She is with her father Frank and he dies in an accident shortly after. The red plane/field and death are connected in her perception. That surfaces in several stories. They are two similar experiences from my own childhood: I was completely overwhelmed at the lock of IJmuiden by the enormous white ship wall of the ocean giant Oranje passing at 50 cm distance, and shortly after a police officer came by because my father had an accident. He lived to 96, so no trauma, but they are the memories you use to build a story.

original: ink on drawing cardboard, 40 x 55 cm

The winner of this lot will also receive, for this auction, in a limited edition of 150 unnumbered copies, a special colour print on A4 format, signed by Henk Kuijpers. The original of this print is also in this auction (see Lot 150).