C&H Art Space was founded to engage and support young contemporary artists and established artists with new thoughts, visions, and concepts.
Moved by a strong passion and love for the arts, Cosimo Ricatto and Hanneke Huisman established the C&H Art Space in early 2011. Before opening the gallery Cosimo and Hanneke organized exhibitions from the privacy of their own home, beginning in 2008. On the Tweede Kostverlorenkade 50 they found the perfect location for their dream, a unique gallery space. After extensive rebuilding and remodeling the gallery was inaugurated in February 2011.
Cosimo Ricatto and Hanneke Huisman are familiar to the arts and the art world. Cosimo has been active in the arts since 1973 in various projects and positions, while Hanneke has been working as an interior architect since 1985. Now they collaborate on their dream by working with artists and making a long lasting contribution to the art world.
Angelo Barone
Casematte is memory of vision without resorting to the weight of experience, bearing witness to the loss in creating our recollections
of places we have never visited, of spaces we have never crossed.
In my itinerary the Casematte are bunkers that stand as an architectural archetype, like the “application summary of the highest rules.” Casematte aims to cover once again the experience of a journey on foot across the entire Atlantic Wall, “Bunker et archeologie,” which Paul Virilio carried out in the 1950s.
Casematte is an immaterial journey through Google images and other web sites, a wandering in confirmation of lands, and their changes; it is a course that wishes to reconstruct its sights, photographing the screen as if it were reality.
But the closer I get to searching for a relationship with the image on the screen, the more it becomes out of focus; the more I look for truth, the more it gives its shadow back to me.
Along this journey the images evoke, and do not represent, places, where the camera’s out-of-focus testifies to the missed experience of an actual trip.
These images are only some stages along the entire visual journey.
C&H Art Space
2de Kostverlorenkade 50 (corner Jan Hanzenstraat)
1053 SB Amsterdam
+31 (0)20 753 09 64
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