Paintings and recollections of Ireland from the legendary American minimalist Collecting new paintings and writings by Amsterdam-based American painter Jo Baer (born 1929), Up Close in the Land of the Giants was created as a deliberate sibling to Baer's 2013 exhibition catalog In the Land of the Giants , which was published on the occasion of the artist's eponymously titled dual exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Ludwig Mu.