Christiaan Bastiaans has ‘the human shortcoming’ as theme in his work. He travels to war zones and places where terror rules, looking for beauty in a world where you are not at home. His film Club Mama Gemütlich plays in the no-man’s-land of a conflict zone: part field hospital, part missionary post, part nightclub stage. Jeanne Moreau wanders around there, consoling and healing like some mystical ghostly apparition. Fascinating. The book pays a great deal of attention to both work and film. Bastiaans gives shape to one of the most difficult tasks to be undertaken by an artist: the portrayal of uprooting, desperation and exclusion.

Authors: Christiaan Bastiaans, Evert van Straaten, Coppens Alberts
Hardback/190 pages/English