Articles by: Jeroen Lutters and Amir Avraham

Amir Avraham is an Israeli graphic designer and researcher living and working in Amsterdam. He worked as a designer in Tel Aviv before obtaining an M.A. from the Werkplaats Typografie at ArtEZ University of the Arts in 2015. His work focusses on the possible roles of the graphic designer operating as an author, and design as a form of writing. Working in close dialogue with artists and institutions in the cultural sector, he researches characteristics of different mediums to create new ways of reading content, or repurposing it in unexpected ways and exploring the power of its medium. In recent years, he has been collaborating with ArtEZ Press on various projects and publications. 

01-Oct-2020

Peter Greenaway

In examining research-based art as a method that uses research for the purpose of making art, Jeroen Lutters uses Peter Greenaway’s film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) as a case study. Here, we see both the artist as a researcher and art research as research-based art—an artist-researcher who creates an independent artistic composition by using at his own discretion the accepted results of research.