THIS IS THOMAS






_ 2023
    Bridge

    Capitol Flags
_ 2021
    Volumes
    CREDIBLE_SOURCE
    Notes From A Meek.

_ 2020
    Hoarder Order
    Opt For Change
    We Are The Champions
_2019

    That’s Delirious! 
    #TRUST

_2018
    Desti-
    Rehab
_2017
    First Year
    Decor_
    Bad Trip
_2016
    Oh Yeah
    De Eerste Maandag Van De Maand
    The Brussels Series
_2015
    Waves | Hijacking The News
    Gesture
_2014 
    When The Twins Were Still Beautiful
_2013
    #IDIDNTJOIN
    Travis’ Encounter
_2011
    2750/2751
    Fusillading

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Hoarder Order, 2020
Published by Fw: Books
Design Jeremy Jansen

Thomas Kuijpers’ work always stems from a (series of) current event(s), on basis of which he investigates how the stories told about these events influence our daily lives. What is the effect on our brain of this daily reporting, when it comes to terrorism, refugees, Europe, extremism, etc? To investigate this, Thomas collects a lot of material of all kinds; newspapers, fragments of conversations he overhears on the street, video material from Youtube, posters on the wall at the bus stop, comments on Twitter. As soon as it touches upon the subject being investigated, it is added to the collection. From that collection new connections arise, as well as insights into the way in which narratives about specific subjects are shaped; and with this also the work arises, within which the source material is often still visible. ‘Hoarder Order’ is an index of 20 years of collecting and (re-)ordering this collection.

12 x 18,5 cm / 560 pages / colour / hardcover 

Selected for Best Dutch Book Designs 2020!

Selected for Best Dutch Book Designs - Student Selection 2020!

Shortlisted for the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards in the category best photobook of the year 2020!

Shortlisted for Rencontres D’arles Book Awards 2021, Author Book Award

Mail me directly for a signed copy! (35 € )


Reviews

ASX (ENG)

Thomas Kuijpers Hoarder Order is a very uncomfortable book. What at first appears as something kitsch and full of self-parody (to Americans) unfolds into a hefty tome dedicated to the presence of symbolic ghosts. In Hoarder Order, the emphasis is the collation of pre-9/11 images of the Twin Towers coupled with their form found in cultural debris and artifact.

Aperture Photobook Review (ENG)

The images are printed on Bible-thin paper that allows the viewer to experience a layering of signs, creating a visual metaphor for both what comes next and what has already happened. Susan Meiselas states, “These are the pages of our destiny unfolding, and we can go back and forth—wishing we could return to a different time.”

Best Dutch Book Designs (ENG)

An extremely tastefully collected – and completely over the top – visual archive, captured in an appealing, handy format with a clear book block that also serves as an index. Which we need, to find our way through this overwhelming collection of visual material.

Best Dutch Book Designs - Student Selection (ENG)
 
One of us called Hoarder Order a symbiosis between an artwork and a book, a term that all of us felt fit the work made by artist Thomas Kuijpers and designer Jeremy Jansen really well: through it’s thin paper, we could see images merge together creating a narrative about the present and past and how these are layered. In the book there’s found matter depicting the twin towers, before and after they fell. We found themes such as structure and de-structure being smartly implemented in this refined book.

Brabant Cultureel (NL) 

In het boek komt het net zo indrukwekkend over als in de installaties. Hoewel de kitsch-objecten aversie oproepen, is het de veelheid aan beeld die indruk maakt. Van de aanslag zelf is niets te zien, maar iedereen weet: deze torens zijn er niet meer.


Available at:
(NL) Fw:Books 
(NL) Idea Books 
(NL) Foam
(NL) Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
(FR) Librairie Sans Titre
(DE) eXtrabuch
(KR) Post Poetics
(RO) Dispozitiv Books
(UK) Village Books
(JP) Flotsam Books
(AUS) Perimiter
(USA) 3StandardStoppage
(USA) Photo-Eye



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From ‘The Photobook Review fall 2020’: 

In 2014, Thomas Kuijpers purchased a painting depicting the iconic pre-9/11 Twin Towers in New York City, inspiring him to begin collecting images and objects of the towers in an effort to trace the visual representation of politics via this landmark scene. Hoarder Order gathers a range of materials depicting “before” and “after,” now infused with alternate meanings—tourist memorabilia, newspaper clippings, screenshots, movie posters, postcards, and other vernacular material—in a small yet densely elegant 560-page book. Each object is isolated on a page or fills the spread, taking the viewer through a visual timeline of events that resonate outward from the semaphore of these now iconic buildings. The images are printed on Bible-thin paper that allows the viewer to experience a layering of signs, creating a visual metaphor for both what comes next and what has already happened. Susan Meiselas states, “These are the pages of our destiny unfolding, and we can go back and forth—wishing we could return to a different time.”