SCHELTENS & ABBENES
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MACGUFFIN ISSUE #6, THE BALL
Scheltens & Abbenes is formed by a still-life photographer, Maurice Scheltens (1972), and a visual artist, Liesbeth Abbenes (1970), both living and working in Amsterdam.
Technical perfection added to individual handicraft, strong pictorial clarity in addition to tailor-made settings.
MULLER VAN SEVEREN
THE WAXSHOP, EXHIBITION MAGAZINE
MULLER VAN SEVEREN
FANTASTIC MAN ISSUE #28
PASTOE
The specialty of Scheltens & Abbenes is to arrange objects into configurations that have a strong two-dimensional or graphic character forming an entirely new object altogether. Instead of presenting objects as plain sellable products, they often manipulate and utilize them as building blocks for new compositions.
THE PLANT SUMMER 18
ROYAL DUTCH BLUE SALON, PHOTOGRAPHIC PAPER COLLAGE
FRIEZE WEEK LONDON 2019
DANSKINA
PACO RABANNE CAMPAIGN 17
MAURICE VRIJWERK
The duo explores intensively photography’s potential for creating illusion. The autonomous artistic quality of the photograph always has to prevail.
MACGUFFIN
CLOAKROOM - INSIDE OUTSIDE
THE GOURMAND ISSUE #6
THE GENTLEWOMAN
THE PLANT JOURNAL
VOLSKRANT
Scheltens & Abbenes deliberately choose to operate both in the field of applied and autonomous art and use them as breeding ground for one another.
TRAILER, UNSEEN AMSTERDAM
COCO CONSERVEN
LIVING, PORCELLANA D'AUTORE
THE PLANT JOURNAL ISSUE #11, BEEHIVES
FANTASTIC MAN
THE GENTLEWOMAN
Maurice Scheltens and Liesbeth Abbenes created commissioned photographs for cultural institutions such as Galliera Musée de la Mode Paris, Foam Amsterdam and The Art Institute of Chicago. In 2019 they made a special commission for the Dutch Royal House at Palace Huis ten Bosch.
FANTASTIC MAN
M LE MONDE
THE GENTLEWOMAN
THE WAXSHOP, EXHIBITION MAGAZINE
ANOTHER MAGAZINE AW19
They collaborate with high-end companies: Chanel, Hermès, Valentino, Vuitton, Yves Saint Laurent, Viktor & Rolf, Roger Vivier, Paco Rabanne… and create stories for Fantastic Man, Wallpaper, Another, The Gentlewoman, The Plant Journal....
The duo won a ICP Infinity Award, in New York.
CHANEL N°5
PACO RABANNE
PACO RABANNE FRAGRANCE, PACOLLECTION
SILK ISSUE, EXHIBITION
PACO RABANNE PARFUMS, MILLION MONOPOLY
THE GENTLEWOMAN
The publication of ZEEN coincides with a retrospective exhibition in Amsterdam.
'At once fascinating and demanding, Scheltens & Abbenes’ meticulous examination brings overlooked details into sharp focus, in turn both flattening the pictured objects and bringing them to life'.
ZEEN, PUBLISHED BY CASE PUBLISHING, MARCH 19
ZEEN EXHIBITION, FOAM PHOTOGRAPHY MUSEUM, MARCH 19
MUTINA HEADQUARTERS, MODENA
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