Paul Faassen

Solo expo

10 March - 16 April 2023

Amsterdam – On Friday March 10, 2023, the new solo exhibition Faassen Fashion Show from the Amsterdam-based illustrator Paul Faassen will open. During the past 25 years, while illustrating for magazines and newspapers, he commented on the fashion industry on every occasion, making drawings, cartoons, and photos, using his sharp insights full of humour. I love Illustration Gallery will show a selection of these, together with a number of new watercolour birds; The Fashion Birds

During the last years, Faassen drew a lot about the relationship between human and not-human animals. The line between those two gets thinner with every scientific research, but one big difference remains: fashion!

“No other being on the planet dresses up daily, changes outfits for every occasion and buys new clothes in every season”

To Faassen himself, this is also important. “I prefer walking around with clothes on, rather then without them.”

To him, clothes are a way to make life richer, and to express an identity. "Fashion is a wonderful art. Beautiful clothes brighten up your day and your essence. And yet there is a love/hate relationship, because of the way consumers and producers have lost reality, and made the industry very polluting and too focused on money-making."

Besides the original watercolours there will be limited and unlimited prints for purchase available.

Paul Faassen

Paul Faasen studied on the Academy of Fine Arts in Tilburg. In 1995 he started to work as a freelance illustrator at ELLE, Quote, Vrij Nederland, NRC, VPRO gids and other magazines. His image-comments are published in Volkskrant Magazine and De Morgen. Paul Faassen teaches at the Arts Academy in Utrecht is also co-curator of the Drawings Festival “A perfect day”, which is organized since 2012. He made his first book called “Niets meer aan doen” (leave it as it is), and others have been published afterwards. A couple of years ago he started to make photos of museum visitors and he draws watercolours of birds, as seen in his book “Eh…”

The exhibition catalogue is available via mail: hello@iloveillustrationgallery.com 

Or call the gallery owner Anneke Krull : +31(0)655360464