PIETER LAURENS MOL, black and white photo, vintage, ca 1990
20,2 x 12,6 cm
black and white photo, vintage
studio view Planciusstraat 5 B, Amsterdam
Photo: K. van Gelder
inv.PLMol 138-pr
In March 1997 Galerie van Gelder took over this studio and moved from the second to the first floor of the building.
The negative of this analogue photo print is lost.
PIETER LAURENS MOL, black and white photo, vintage, ca 1990
12,6 x 20,2 cm
black and white photo, vintage
studio view Planciusstraat 5 B, Amsterdam
Photo: K. van Gelder
inv.PLMol 137-pr
In March 1997 Galerie van Gelder took over this studio and moved from the second to the first floor of the building.
The negative of this analogue photo print is lost.
PIETER LAURENS MOL, black and white photo, vintage, ca 1990
12,6 x 20,2 cm
black and white photo, vintage
studio view Planciusstraat 5 B, Amsterdam
Photo: K. van Gelder
inv.PLMol 136-pr
In March 1997 Galerie van Gelder took over this studio and moved from the second to the first floor of the building.
The negative of this analogue photo print is lost.
PIETER LAURENS MOL, black and white photo, vintage, ca 1990
12,6 x 20,2 cm
studio view Planciusstraat 5 B, Amsterdam
Photo: K. van Gelder
inv.PLMol 135-pr
In March 1997 Galerie van Gelder took over this studio and moved from the second to the first floor of the building.
The negative of this analogue photo print is lost.
PIETER LAURENS MOL, name tag of studio doorbell, 1990
1,2 x 4,1 cm
type machine text, paper
Collection K. van Gelder, Amsterdam
Century ’87, 1987 each 16,2 x 82,4 cm
6 streamers, screenprint, limited edition:
‘Daan van Golden in de Hortus’
‘Nam June Paik in het Postkantoor’
‘Scholte en Dokoupil op de Wallen’
‘Pieter Laurens Mol op Solder’
‘Clemente in de Kelder’
‘Titus Nolte in de Oude Manhuispoort’
* In 1987 Sjarel Ex initiated Century ’87 together with Els Hoek and Nicolette Gast on behalf of Amsterdam Cultural Capital. It was an exhibition in the Amsterdam city centre featuring installations from 30 contemporary Dutch and foreign artists including Nam June Paik, Barry Flanagan, James Lee Byars, Boltanski, Sarkis, Daan van Golden, Rene Daniels and Marlene Dumas. The graphic design group Wild Plakken distributed the black and white streamers all over town in order to draw attention to the project. Very fine copies. Rare.
PIETER LAURENS MOL, This paper is yours, this is mine, 1974
43 x 29,5 cm / 30 x 4,2 cm (diameter)
punched sheet of thin paper (40 gr/m2), cardboard tube, printed texts in letterpress
edition unknown
published by the artist
condition: aged paper and cardboard, small crumpling on vertical edges
not available anymore
In the early seventies Pieter Laurens Mol was an outspoken protagonist of Concrete Poetry. Twisted Dutch sayings like ‘De vloer met jezelf aanvegen’ [meaning: instead of walk over someone… walking over oneself] were visualized into a print or photo. Or the six letters of the word POETRY were cast in concrete and hold together by a rope.
PIETER LAURENS MOL, Middelpuntvliedend – middelpuntzoekend, 1973
4,2 x 11 x 8,7 cm
marble stone, rope, text on label on inner part of lid, wooden box with label on outer part of lid
signed, numbered
edition 15
Collection Thora K. Johansen, Amsterdam
The work of Pieter Laurens Mol is interweaved with balance and inertia, next to facts from astronomy and history put in a constructed form of poetic (often Latin) language and images. In this sculpture, as the artist names it, references are made to his own history, namely his childhood; one of his other themes. The label on the inside reads:
Een beeld uit mijn kinderjaren of het verband tussen beweging, afstand en snelheid. Er zijn 3 elementen:
de beeldhouwer, een stuk touw als gereedschap en het materiaal, de steen.
De steen wordt aan het touw vertikaal voor je uit geslingerd zodat hij een cirkel beschrijft. Dan wordt de hand met een snelle stoot naar voren bewogen waardoor het touw zich om de pols windt. De steen zoekt in een spiraalvormige versnelling het midden en belandt tegen de pols. Het beeld is statisch.