Friends and Family
Lily van der Stokker
Published by Les presses du réel, Lyon, 2003, 448 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 20.5 × 26.2 cm, English/French
Price: €38

Lily van der Stokker has been renowned since the early 1990s for her playful wall paintings in bright colours. Floral motifs and ornamental clouds are dominant patterns in world whose aesthetic and fluorescent palette bring Pop art to mind. Meticulously executed in a time-consuming and labor-intensive process, the murals are based on small-format drawings the artist prepares with scrupulous precision. Comedy, satire and irony are hallmarks of van der Stokker’s oeuvre.

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