Title: Parade
Artist: Tom Janssen
Additional contributor: Frank Heinen (story), Dirk van Weelden (essay), Heddwen van Gestel (translation)
Designer: Simon Burer
Editor: Tom Janssen
Imprint: Tom Janssen
Printer: Drukkerij Aeroprint, Oudekerk aan de Amstel, The Netherlands
Binding: Boekbinderij Patist, Den Dolder, The Netherlands
Publication date and place: July 2015 / Utrecht, The Netherlands
Edition: 1000, including 24 special editions
Format, binding: softcover / Swiss binding
Size: 30 x 24 cm
Number of pages and images: 88 pages with 4 fold-outs / 60 images / plus 20 page booklet
Type of printing and paper: offset / 250 gsm hv offset white and 120 gsm Munken Lynx Rough
Retail price: € 34,50
Book Description: With over five hundred parades each year in such a small country as the Netherlands, one can’t neglect the role this intangible heritage plays within large parts of society: many lives are connected and formed through these events. The amount of time and effort that’s put into the organisation of the parade and especially into the building of the floats, which are an important aspect of the parades, stand in no comparison to the short amount of time that the actual event lasts. Months and months of organising and building compressed into only a few hours in which the streets and the daily routines of a village are taken over. But it’s worth every single effort: the floats that are constructed for the parades are of great beauty, I’d like to call them temporary artworks, however the real beauty can be found in the perseverance with which they are made.
Positioned within the neat and thoroughly planned Dutch landscape all those surreal creations almost seem like a silent protest against conformity, while at the same time you can question if the floats themselves aren’t a product of the same mind-set and skills that formed this particular landscape.
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- Title: Parade