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The immortal goldfish - September 4 until October 4 2005 (press release)

UPDATE - Catch these events in September and October; Interior Design, August 2005

From China, with Love; Holland Herald, april 2005

The Kunstfabriek finishes Breitner; The Amsterdam Times, June 11, 2004 (article)

The Kunstfabriek finishes Breitner - June 9 until July 9, 2004 (press release)

A factory of art - De Kunstfabriek; Rush, Fall 2003 (article)

Old Masters in a New Fashion - Revamping Old Masters in De Kunstfabriek, October 12 until November 16 2003 (press release)

Amsterdam art factory sells what consumers want; Het Financieele Dagblad, April 17, 1999 (article)

PRESS RELEASE Amsterdam, 8-12-05

The immortal goldfish

Exhibition: September 4 – October 4 2005
In De KUNSTFABRIEK, AMSTERDAM (NL)

Once again, De Kunstfabriek (‘The Art Factory’) in Amsterdam has taken a familiar subject out of the sitting room and transformed it into striking and unconventional oil paintings. ‘The central themes are TRANQUILLITY and COLOUR,’ says Bert-Jan van Egteren, the man behind the exhibition. ‘A goldfish is brilliant orange and radiates an almost meditative tranquillity. When my brother and I were young, his goldfish were called the Golden Girls and mine was called William of Orange. In the end, we flushed them down the toilet. Now all of that belongs to the past: we’ve created thirty compositions with goldfish and, in our own inimitable fashion, have had these painted in large formats. The days of the goldfish bowl are over. But the attractive, soothing forces of goldfish remain.’

Goldfish –skilfully painted to our own design and to the highest standards, but still eminently affordable. Prices start from €400.

UPDATE - Catch these events in September and October; Interior Design, augustus 2005

By Jen DeRose - Jan Peter Van Doorn en Bert-Jan van Egteren are the painter-pioneers behind Amsterdam’s De Kunstfabriek. With a name that means ‘the art factory’, this gallery sells modestly priced paintings based on digital photography. Among the 30 examples in “The Immortal Goldfish” is an oil on canvas, Goldfish. September 4-October 4; 31-20-488-9430; dekunstfabriek.com

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From China, with Love; Holland Herald, April 2005

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The Kunstfabriek finishes Breitner; The Amsterdam Times, June 11 2004

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PRESS RELEASE
October 2003

Old Masters in a New Fashion
A very special exhibition in De Kunstfabriek
Revamping Old Masters in De Kunstfabriek

The beauty and craftsmanship of the Dutch and Flemish masters from the sixteenth and seventeenth century are widely known to be superb and beyond comparison. Yet De Kunstfabriek has lived up to the challenge of creating new paintings, based on the famous Old Masters from the Golden Age but designed in a modern fashion.

How? We have chosen several different details from the world's greatest paintings. For instance just the face form a Rubens portrait. The Madonna from Jan van Eyck's altarpiece in Bruges. Two wheels of cheese and a bowl of fraises-de-bois from a still life by Floris van Dyck. And the jug from Vermeer's Milkmaid. Subsequently we have enlarged these details to gigantic dimensions.
The end result: canvases of 120 x 160 cm and larger.

The paintings are colorful and surprising. And of course skillfully made by trained artists.

From 12 October until 16 November the paintings will be on view in the gallery on
Haarlemmerweg 315D in Amsterdam.

The Dutch masters in De Kunstfabriek will of course be for sale. Not for the prices their originals normally fetch at auctions or with dealers, but with price tags typical of De Kunstfabriek:
ranging from € 600 to € 1500.

160 x 160 cm

Jan Peter van Doorn, founder and owner of De Kunstfabriek: "The effect we have created with these classical themes is beyond all expectation. Small details from original Old Masters have been blown up to enormous proportions. We have also experimented with the compositions. To see the famous icons of the Dutch Golden Age in a new fashion is bewildering and bewitching at the same time. The technique of oil on canvas is still the same, but the context of De Kunstfabriek paintings is completely 21st century and this accounts for u unique series".

De Kunstfabriek was founded in 1998 by Jan Peter van Doorn en Bert-Jan van Egteren. Together with a team of Dutch (computer)designers and photographers they design paintings. Every design is painted in China by academically trained artists. All paintings are one-offs, executed in oil on canvas. Since 1998 circa 2500 unique works on canvas have been sold by De Kunstfabriek.

NOTE: Should you wish to receive (digital) images for publication please contact De Kunstfabriek on +31 20 4889430 or e-mail to info@dekunstfabriek.com.