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Rein Jelle Terpstra

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Rein Jelle Terpstra
Born (1960-07-04) 4 July 1960 (age 64)
Leeuwarden, Netherlands
NationalityDutch
OccupationVisual artist
Years active1982–present

Rein Jelle Terpstra (born 4 July 1960) is a Dutch visual artist and a lecturer at the Minerva Art Academy, Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen.[1]


Education

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Terpstra was educated at the AKI Academy of Art & Design in Enschede and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. After his time at the Rijksakademie, Terpstra focused on photography in relation to perception, memory, and history.

Funeral Train

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Since 2014, Terpstra has been working on the project The Robert F. Kennedy Funeral Train – The People’s View. [2]

In this project, he reconstructs the journey of the funeral train of the assassinated presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy on 8 June 1968, through photos taken by bystanders. This project resulted in an installation, film, and book, and has been exhibited at the SFMoMA in San Francisco, which acquired the work.[citation needed] This long-running project has been exhibited at various locations including the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Fabra y Coats in Barcelona, and the Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki. In 2019, Stiftung Buchkunst[3] awarded the book The Robert F. Kennedy Funeral Train—The People’s View a gold medal and deemed it "The Most Beautiful Book in the World".[4]

Round mirrors on apartment building in Bijlmermeer

Terpstra has also created several works in public spaces, such as the artwork for the residential complex Groeneveen [5] and the wave project in IJburg. [6]

Other publications

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  • Nabeelden, Album van de niet gemaakte foto (Publisher De Balie, 2002). For this collection, he invited 29 artists and writers to write a story about a photo they were unable to take. This project has been exhibited at the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam, which acquired the project in the form of an audio table (2010).[7]
  • Retracing (Publisher post editions 2013): a visual account of a collaboration with people losing their eyesight. [8]
  • Donkere Duinen (self-published, in collaboration with Willem van Zoetendaal, 2021). Donkere Duinen is based on a collection of negatives shot during the wartime occupation of '40-'45 and has been exhibited at the Fotomuseum Den Haag (2022–2023). [9]

References

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  1. ^ "Discover photographer, painter, graphic artist Rein Jelle Terpstra". rkd.nl. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  2. ^ "Robert F. Kennedy Funeral Train - The People's View ___ a wall installation, a film and a book". Rein Jelle Terpstra. 2022-06-08. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  3. ^ "Home / Stiftung Buchkunst". www.stiftung-buchkunst.de. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  4. ^ "Robert F. Kennedy Funeral Train – The People's View". www.stiftung-buchkunst.de. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  5. ^ "Groeneveen, Amsterdam | www.amsterdamhv.nl". www.amsterdamhv.nl. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  6. ^ "Golven op IJburg, Amsterdam (zie films onderaan)". Rein Jelle Terpstra (in Dutch). 2022-08-11. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  7. ^ "Nabeelden, over de niet gemaakte foto". Rein Jelle Terpstra (in Dutch). 2022-08-11. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  8. ^ "Retracing - photobook and slideprojection". Rein Jelle Terpstra. 2022-06-08. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  9. ^ "Dark Dunes". Rein Jelle Terpstra. 2022-07-08. Retrieved 2023-09-04.