Kröller-Müller Museum (Otterlo, Netherlands)
Evert van Straaten
‘Verlangen naar volmaaktheid’ / 
‘Longing for perfection’

2011
Exhibition catalogue (Dutch), poster and invitation (Dutch & English)

Evert van Straaten served as the Kröller-Müller Museum’s director from 1990 to 2012. His farewell exhibition, titled ‘Verlangen naar volmaaktheid’ / ‘Longing for perfection’, filled the entire museum – as well as the sculpture garden outside – with an overview of the various works procured during his 21-year directorship. In addition, film and video works by Christiaan Bastiaans, Willie Doherty, Jan van de Pavert, Hetty Huisman and Jan Fabre were screened in a tent complex on a site adjacent to the museum.

In connection with this special exhibition, the museum asked us to design a catalogue in Dutch. In ‘Verlangen naar volmaaktheid’, Van Straaten shares how and why he chose each of the pieces he acquired for the museum during his tenure as director. The catalogue also comes with a DVD that contains images of each of those works.

The 224-page catalogue is printed in full colour on Lessebo Design Smooth white 150 GSM paper. A poster-size folded jacket covers the linen hardcover volume, which has transparent embossing on the back. The front of the jacket has a full-colour, high-gloss spot UV coating.

Publisher: Stichting Kröller-Müller Museum
Text: Evert van Straaten
Printer: Ando bv (The Hague)
Binder: Boekbinderij Van Waarden (Zaandam)

see also:
Kröller-Müller Museum: ‘The Riddle of “Double Ingres”: Van Gogh’s drawings in the Kröller-Müller Museum re-examined’
Kröller-Müller Museum: ‘Drawings and prints by Vincent van Gogh in the collection of the Kröller-Müller Museum’
Kröller-Müller Museum: Herman de Vries: ‘Mesa’
Kröller-Müller Museum: ‘Jan Fabre: Hortus / Corpus’