Bladwijzers (Bookmarks) is a staple bound artist book by Yvette Jansen published by Boekie Woekie in 2013. Bladwijzers is a book of bookmarks. Collage artist Yvette Jansen uses the form and scale of a bookmark as a vehicle for her provocative collage works. Images collected from a Jansen’s chest of drawers where she stores images of body parts, cut from advertisements and magazines are composed in beautiful and humorous compilations to make bookmarked sized collages. The book also includes an essay on bookmarks in Dutch by Reiner de Winter.
Born in 1948, Yvette Jansen uses a variety of different paper and materials for her collages. At times, the collages take on pointed meanings, other times, the meaning is obscured by the cut and pasted images. Her work has been shown in Amsterdam, Haarlem and Heemstede; at the Month of the Collage exhibition in Rotterdam in 2010 and at the Mail-Art show titled Collecting at the Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven in 2011.
Boekie Woekie is an Amsterdam based publisher. Since the 1980’s, Boekie Woekie has been producing artist books and poetry as well as holding readings and exhibitions in their gallery space. A mainstay at art book fairs all over the world, Boekie Woekie continues to serve as a platform for both Amsterdam and international artists.
