Kim Zwarts (

Maastricht Maastricht ( , , ; li, Mestreech ; french: Maestricht ; es, Mastrique ) is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. It is the capital and largest city of the province of Limburg. Maastricht is located on both sides of the ...

, 1955) is a Dutch photographer. Kim Zwarts studied at the

Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts Maastricht Institute of Arts, formerly known as the Academie Beeldende Kunsten Maastricht (Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design) and the Stadsacademie voor Toegepaste Kunsten (City Academy of Applied Arts), is a cluster of visual arts educat ...

. He has worked as a photographer on several architecture books, including monographs of

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, Luis Barrágan,

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, Antonio Gaudi,

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, Charles Vandenhove,

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, Dom H. van der Laan and

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. Zwarts has realized art commissions for Royal Sphinx,

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, Limburg Water (WML) and

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. Study grants from the Netherlands Foundation for Fine Arts, Design and Architecture in 1990 and again in 1999/2000 enabled him to conduct photographic research. On both occasions he spent extended periods in the

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. Zwarts’ freelance work has appeared in ''Pale Pink'' (1994), ''Beyond'' (1997) and ''Maastricht 148'' (2000). Exhibitions of his work have been held in, among others, the

Bonnefanten Museum The Bonnefanten Museum is a museum of fine art in Maastricht, Netherlands. History The museum was founded in 1884 as the historical and archaeological museum of the Dutch province of Limburg. The name Bonnefanten Museum is derived from the Frenc ...

in Maastricht, Centre Céramique in Maastricht, at the Liège Photo Biennale, the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, the Netherlands Photo Museum, the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam, the

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in London, and the Maly Manezh Gallery in Moscow. In 2001 Zwarts designed a facade motif for the glass and concrete walls of the

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Library in the Netherlands. Kim Zwarts’ work has received national and international recognition in the form of the Kodak Award (1989) and the

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Prize (1997). His work has been included in several public and private art collections. In several of his work, for example ''Maastricht 148'', Kim Zwarts selected the subjects of his pictures by drawing a grid over a specific area. The crossing points on the grid appear in the pictures.

Bibliography

* K. Zwarts, ''Beyond'', Maastricht 1997 * K. Zwarts, ''Maastricht 148'', Maastricht 2000 * K. Zwarts, ''Pale Pink'', Maastricht 1994

External links

Website Kim Zwarts

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