Design flyer: Cengiz Menguç
PrintRoom makes space among the bookshelves for artist Grazia Gallo, who will install a pop-up hair salon centered around the simple yet intimate act of haircutting and the conversations that grow during the process.
In the mean time, you can use our drawing and writing tools to visualise, describe and design your favourite hairstyle. You can work with postcard templates designed by artist and illustrator Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva.
Self-acclaimed Stencil King Erwin Blok will complete this vibrant set-up by guiding us into the analogue stencil-printing technique using his old-school Gestetner machines, a type of stencil duplicator or mimeograph.
With your contributions we’ll print a collective La Grazieria zine!
This event will be an opportunity to connect through storytelling, creativity, and play. Our zine will capture the voices and experiences of the night.
You can expect a fresh haircut, a draw-write-and stencil-print session and a lively conversation with someone you have yet to meet!
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Grazia Gallo is a visual artist, hairdresser, and researcher. Her practice revolves around themes of home in relation to migration, nostalgia, working-class identity, and social housing architecture. Through environments created with found objects, textiles, ceramics, and other materials, she invites viewers to step into spaces where her personal memories serve as portals to reimagine and build new worlds.
Erwin Blok collects Gestetner stencil machines, restores them and works with them extensively. With great pleasure he experiments with the possibilities of the beautiful devices. Blok gives workshops all over the world to artists, graphic designers and other interested parties
Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva works between fine art and illustration. She works both as an editorial, commercial illustrator for publishing houses around the world, and as an independent artist for galleries and museums. PrintRoom published several artist publications with Masha in the past years.
PrintRoom’s programme is kindly supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL and the City of Rotterdam. This project was made possible by CBK Rotterdam.