Bob Schalkwijk
Vivienda decorada con motivos olímpicos en la colonia Isidro Fabela, Septiembre de 1968.
Fine Art Inkjet Print from an original Ektachrome donde by the artist
60 x 40 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Vivienda decorada con motivos de la XIX Olimpiada, colonia Isidro Fabela, Septiembre de 1968.
Fine Art Inkjet Print from an original Ektachrome donde by the artist
60 x 40 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Rótulos de diversos negocios en un edificio de la colonia Roma, Mayo de 1968.
Fine Art Inkjet Print from an original Ektachrome donde by the artist
60 x 40 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Rótulos de diversos negocios en un edificio en Avenida Revolución, 1977.
Fine Art Inkjet Print from an original Ektachrome donde by the artist
60 x 40 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Vendedores de globos, Avenida Juárez, Diciembre de 1963.
Fine Art Inkjet Print from an original Ektachrome donde by the artist
60 x 40 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Vendedor de globos frente al Hemiciclo a Juárez, Diciembre de 1963.
Fine Art Inkjet Print from an original Ektachrome donde by the artist
40 x 60 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Kiosko de periódico en el Centro Histórico, 2 de Septiembre de 1971.
Fine Art Inkjet Print from an original Ektachrome donde by the artist
40 x 60 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Torre Latinoamericana desde Avenida Juárez, Diciembre de 1963.
Fine Art Inkjet Print from an original Ektachrome donde by the artist
40 x 60 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Repartidores de periódico, Plaza de la Constitución, 1977.
Fine Art Inkjet Print from an original Ektachrome donde by the artist
40 x 60 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Conjunto Habitacional Nonoalco Tlatelolco, Septiembre de 1963.
Silver gelatin analog photograph produced by the artist.
Unique Vintage
20.3 x 25.4 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Juegos infantiles, Conjunto Habitacional Nonoalco Tlatelolco, Enero de 1964.
Silver gelatin analog photograph produced by the artist.
Unique Vintage
20.3 x 25.4 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Ciudad Universitaria, 1964.
Silver gelatin analog photograph produced by the artist.
Unique Vintage
20.3 x 25.4 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Paisaje urbano, Febrero de 1964.
Silver gelatin analog photograph produced by the artist.
Unique Vintage
20.3 x 25.4 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Estadio Olímpico Universitario, Enero de 1964.
Silver gelatin analog photograph produced by the artist.
Unique Vintage
20.3 x 25.4 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Biblioteca Central de Ciudad Universitaria y Popocatépetl, Enero de 1964.
Silver gelatin analog photograph produced by the artist.
Unique Vintage
20.3 x 25.4 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Monumento a la revolución, 1964.
Silver gelatin analog photograph produced by the artist.
Unique Vintage
20.3 x 25.4 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Glorieta de La Fuente de Petróleos, 1964.
Silver gelatin analog photograph produced by the artist.
Unique Vintage
20.3 x 25.4 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Vendedores de globos, Bosque de Chapultepec, 1960.
Silver gelatin analog photograph produced by the artist.
Unique,Vintage, Signed
20.3 x 25.4 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Vendedor de globos, Segunda sección del Bosque de Chapultepec, 1964.
Silver gelatin analog photograph produced by the artist.
Unique Vintage
20.3 x 25.4 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Monolito de Tláloc, Avenida Paseo de la Reforma, 1964.
Silver gelatin analog photograph produced by the artist.
Unique Vintage
20.3 x 25.4 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Esquina del antiguo Palacio de los Condes de Santiago de Calimaya, hoy Museo de la Ciudad de México, Centro Histórico, marzo de 1964.
Silver gelatin analog photograph produced by the artist.
Unique Vintage
20.3 x 25.4 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Vida nocturna capitalina, Avenida Paseo de la Reforma esquina Avenida Juárez, Febrero de 1964.
Silver gelatin analog photograph produced by the artist.
Unique Vintage
20.3 x 25.4 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Basílica de Guadalupe, 13 de Diciembre de 1959.
Silver gelatin analog photograph produced by the artist.
Unique Vintage
20.3 x 25.4 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Electricistas, Naucalpan de Juárez, Estado de México, Septiembre de 1963.
Silver gelatin analog photograph produced by the artist.
Unique Vintage
20.3 x 25.4 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Torres de Satélite, Septiembre de 1963.
Silver gelatin analog photograph produced by the artist.
Unique Vintage
20.3 x 25.4 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Feliz Navidad, 1964.
Silver gelatin analog photograph produced by the artist.
Unique Vintage
20.3 x 25.4 cm
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Bob Schalkwijk
Barrio de Xoco, Marzo de 1964.
Silver gelatin analog photograph produced by the artist.
Unique Vintage
20.3 x 25.4 cm
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
ALMANAQUE-fotográfica is pleased to invite you to Bob Schalkwijk : DF-60s, individual exhibition of with works for sale by the artist and photographer Bob Schalkwijk (Rotterdam, 1933), who this year will celebrate his 90th birthday and more than 70 years of resigning in Mexico. With the curatorship of Aldo Solano Rojas (Art History, UNAM) will be on view at the gallery directed by Arturo Delgado. (A selection will be presented by AMANAQUE in Zona Maco 2023 art fair, in a group with available works by the Mexican artists Tatiana Parcero, Yvonne Venegas and the Argentinian Jorge Miño with bodies of work depicting different views of Mexico City ).
Bob's first visit to Mexico was in the winter of 1958 at age 25, driving a Volkswagen from Calgary, Canada, to Ajijic, Jalisco. The young Dutchman fell in love with the country, its landscapes, cultural diversity and especially its people. The following year Bob decided to settle in Mexico as a photographer and began his prolific professional career at a time of cultural upheaval and large-scale social change, particularly in the heart of the nation, which was becoming known internationally as Mexico City, a great world capital.
His work belongs to the collections of the National Museum of Photography: Centro de la Imagen, Museo Amparo, MoCA, the Ministry of Culture of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, as well as as to numerous private collections. On the occasion of his 90th birthday, this year the Mexican Ministry of Culture will pay homage to him with a major individual exhibition at Centro de la Imagen.
Curatorial text: In 1959 Bob Schalkwijk (Rotterdam, 1933) arrived in Mexico City, one that looked very different from ours yet very similar. Continuing the tradition of urban photographers, Bob skillfully portrayed how the Mexican capital was transforming to become a great modern capital. The architecture, the street vendors, the press, the traffic and the avenues, the new housing units and the ways of using the public space are, in Bob's work, a series of layers that make up the city that, despite having different rhythms and different ages coexist at all times. This is Mexico City, a series of geological and social layers built together anachronistically.
This exhibition includes images of Mexico City captured by Shalkwijk from 1959 to 1971. For these years, the University City and the Nonoalco-Tlatelolco housing unit already existed—still shining—; The 1968 Olympics had placed our country at the center of world attention, and at the same time old traditions such as religious pilgrimages or the Three Kings Day celebration in Alameda Central continued to be in force; the 1985 earthquake was still far in the future. We can also see the birth of new popular expressions within a large city such as polychrome balloons.
Mexico City is made of layers, it can be seen in the Mexica stones that support New Spain buildings, in the brand new cars next to Porfirian buildings or in modern murals on houses made of sheet metal; it is seen in its inhabitants, pilgrims, tourists, chilangos and in the very few photographers who have been able to decipher it, one of them is Bob Schalkwijk. Aldo Solano Rojas. PhD. History of Art, UNAM, curator.
ALMANAQUE-fotográfica, founded in 2016, is an art agency and gallery dedicated to promoting, exhibiting, conceiving and developing contemporary art productions based on the image, photography and new media. With a showroom-office in Colonia Roma in Mexico City, ALMANAQUE has shown more than 60 international artists in more than 20 exhibitions carried out in collaboration with artists from other disciplines, curators and international institutions. It has participated in: Zona Maco México, Material Art Fair México, Photo Basel Suiza, Photo London, Arco Madrid, ArteBA Buenos Aires and Unseen Amsterdam, among others. ALMANAQUE was founded by Arturo Delgado, ex-diplomat and cultural official, curator, producer and promoter of contemporary art. He was the winner of the 2006 and 2010 Radio Biennials, a university professor at CIDE and Universidad Centro and from 2009 to 2012 he was Cultural Attaché of the Mexican embassy in Australia. He is the author of the book Horror Vacui, arte contemporáneo en ciudades abigarradas (edited Textofilia 2016).
