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Scrapbook

compiler: Robert Jasper Grootveld (1932-2009), collage, 1955-c. 1970

This scrapbook is a retrospective in collage form of the playful happenings and metamorphoses with which Robert Jasper Grootveld, around 1960, created the Magical Centre Amsterdam: ‘a city where everything is possible.’ The scrapbook showcases Grootveld’s transvestites and exhibitionism, showing a loner who plays with different identities in order to challenge authority, false advertising and social conventions. Grootveld is male and female, white and black, a (former) window washer and an anti-smoking magician.

  • Artwork typephotograph
  • Object numberNG-2017-2
  • Dimensionsheight 200 mm x width 150 mm