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Join us for an evening of book launches and a presentation of related drawings by Paul van der Eerden and Henri Jacobs

Paul van der Eerden, ‘Dear Paul’, published by Solo ma non troppo, Paris.
“Besides the more monumental works that focus on volume and “meatiness”, Paul van der Eerden makes drawings on envelopes. These doodles function as a kind of “delivery room” for the more finished drawings. They are spontaneous as telephone drawings, open to any form or style and they explore new themes and ideas within his work.” (Solo ma non troppo)
Geneviève Hergott and Jean Bescós from Solo will bring a wide selection of their catalogue.

For this occasion Paul van der Eerden produced PrintRoom edition #2, ‘OH! GOSH!’, mixed media on used envelope, edition of 25.

Henri Jacobs, ‘Journal Drawings’, published by Roma Publications
“A repository of nine years of drawing and collecting images. All Jacobs’ Journal Drawings from 001 up to 666 are shown. For some of them, different stages of development are included. These stages reveal how a particular drawing evolved, and throughout the book, the evolution of Jacobs’ drawing itself can be seen. A book with a huge number of images which, after painstaking labour, have received a place in which they can interact with each other through the eyes of the viewer.” (Roma)

An exhibition with original drawings by both artists runs until November 17th.

We’ll join salon light #10, art book fair in Paris!

NIGHT OF OCTOBER 5TH, SATURDAY FROM 7 PM TO 7 AM.
PREVIEW PRESS : SATURDAY 5 PM – 6:30 PM
CURATOR : SYLVIE BOULANGER
ADRESS : GYMNASE DES PYRÉNÉES, 296 RUE DES PYRÉNÉES, 75020 PARIS

In order to have all activities under one roof, we’re constructing a special storing place for the RISO stencil machines in our basement.

Of course we’ll be at the opening of The Temptation of AA Bronson on September 5th at Witte de With.
Enjoy the summer and see you in September!

If you wish to see us before this, join us at the 3th edition of the Book Case Study Workshop at Lief Hertje en de Grote Witte Reus in The Hague. PrintRoom’s Karin de Jong will give a talk on September 3th. Please contact LHGWR for reservations.

LUBOK 11

Lubok 11 is one of a series of books printed from original linocuts, reproduced on a mechanical letterpress. The craftsmanship of the linocut is preserved in the end product. Lubok 11 is co-produced by Lubok Verlag, Leipzig and PrintRoom.

Participating artists: Damien Deroubaix, Sebastian Gögel, Irene Hanenbergh, Thomas Moecker, Olivia Plender, Marcel Ruijters, Jasper Sebastian Stürup, Koen Taselaar, Marcel van Eeden, Ewoud van Rijn, James Whitman and Christoph Ruckhäberle (cover image).

Lubok Verlag
Lubok Verlag was founded by the artist Christoph Ruckhäberle. The name Lubok is an allusion to cheap popular prints from Russia. Lubok Verlag aspires to make high-quality prints available to a mass market.

The collaboration between Rotterdam-based PrintRoom and Lubok Verlag began last year with an exhibition of all the Lubok publications. It was then that the idea of putting together a joint edition of the Lubok series with contributions from Dutch and foreign artists took shape.

Coinciding with a number of openings in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen there will be a book launch and pre-sale of Lubok 11 on Saturday 8 June, when the book will be priced at €45. You can also order a copy at PrintRoom until this day. After that date the book will be on sale in the museum shop, via Lubok’s webshop and at PrintRoom for €50.

A large selection of Lubok 11 pages will be exhibited at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen from June 8 trough September 1 2013.

More at Boijmans
The presentation of Lubok 11 is part of a packed contemporary art program in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. From 8 June, the museum not only presents Lubok 11, but also presents the anniversary exhibition 25 Years City Collection Rotterdam and the first edition of Sensory Spaces with Oscar Tuazon (USA 1975). This summer Klaas Kloosterboer (NL 1959), Chris Martin (USA 1954) and Jim Shaw (USA 1952) will transform the Submarine Wharf in Rotterdam’s docklands into a gigantic art studio. They will present existing and newly-created site-specific work. More information: http://www.boijmans.nl/en/.

THE ARCHAIC REVIVAL REVIEW, Printroom publication #11 is a collection of over 20 A3 sized posters by California based artists, compiled and produced by artists Dani Tul and Ewoud van Rijn. The works are stencil printed at PrintRoom’s Risograph workshop in blue and red and kept together with an elastic band.

19.30: talk by Hans Plomp, initiator of Ruigoord Cultural Freeport and co-author of ‘Uit je Bol / Out of your Head, a guide for the responsible use of drugs’ which he wrote with Gerben Hellinga.

Hans Plomp (Amsterdam, January 29, 1944) is a Dutch writer and poet. Along with fellow writer Gerben Hellinga he was also the driving force behind the resistence which saved Ruigoord from demolition.

THE ARCHAIC REVIVAL REVIEW

work by: Michael Decker, Peter Wu, Dani Tull, Corrina Peipon, Landon Wiggs, Christina Ondrus, Alison O’Daniel, Chris Wilder, Ewoud van Rijn, Klea Mckenna, Doug Harvey, Amir H. Fallah, Brian Cooper, Alison Blickle, Ron Regé, Chris Badger, Karen Liebowitz/ Ethan Ayer, Chromium Dumb Belle, Amanda Charchian, Claude Collins-Stracensky, Amy Sarkisian, Alison Blickle, Brian Randolph, Tracy Conti.

Texts by Doug Harvey, artist and art critic, Los Angeles and Christian Greer, academic researcher (UVA, Amsterdam) in the field of contemporary spiritual movements and anti-authoritarian counter cultures in the U.S.

Terence McKenna

The two texts respond to the singular psychedelic ideas of Terence McKenna, the ethnobotanist, mystic and prophet who advocated paths of shamanism and the use of plant-based psychedelics as a means of increasing many forms of human awareness.

Together with his brother Dennis he discovered the cultivation of the Psilocybin mushrooms, known in Holland as ‘Paddo’s’. In publications and lectures McKenna philosophied on the social cultural implications of his discovery and thus became an inspiration for the 1980’s rave culture.

The Title refers to McKenna’s 1992 book ‘The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelic Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virtual Reality, UFOs, Evolution, Shamanism, the Rebirth of the Goddess, and the End of History’. In this book McKenna speculates on the idea that in prehistoric time human consciousness was accelerated by the use of mindexpanding mushrooms. Today McKenna is being rediscovered by a new generation of artists with a spiritual bend.

Exhibition with Thomas Jenkins, Batia Suter and coinciding publications and bookworks

Opening reception: 12 April 2013, 19.00 – 22.00

Curated by Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk and Karin de Jong

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. – Franz Kafka in a letter to Oskar Pollak, 27 January 1904

The exhibition Two in the Wave presents two works concerned with the artistic treatment of printed–matter and the book, in light of our surrounding seas, oceans and the connotations these seemingly boundless expanses put forward. As advanced by the two works, there is a sensible retreat from the documentary image to its recovery in the element of the fictional. Both works share a formal approach towards their display: a characteristic that is inherent to the work, and furthermore positions a similar resonance present in the conventional means of displaying scientific material. In so doing, the exhibition foregrounds the engagement with alternative knowledge through the displacement and fictionalisation of collected imagery, the construction of systems of representation and the altering readings and stories this evokes.

The work The Seas and Oceans of the World (2012) by Thomas Jenkins (b. 1983, lives and works in London) shows a historically sized atlas, indexing the World’s seas and oceans through various shades of blue, all referenced from one particular atlas and thus using the general conventions as applied in mapmaking. Jenkins is interested in the human need to delineate and categorise our surroundings in order to cope with them. In the work he applies the artifice of mapping to a point of such simplicity that the act becomes absurd, underscoring one of our many behaviours perhaps borne out of a need, rather than simply out of curiosity or pleasure. Aside from these concerns Jenkins is also lost in the energy, beauty and romance of the sea, and found himself enchanted by the idea of containing those feelings and that power in a rectangle of blue on a page.

Batia Suter (b. 1967, lives and work in Amsterdam) will present the work Wave, floor version #1 (2012), a floor–based installation comprised of a selection of overlapping books featuring photographic illustrations of waves. In essence, the books and the display material form the sculptural structure of the work, whereas the images on the pages of the books correspond with each other into a somewhat poetic narrative strand in which applied photography and collage are combined to form a singular reading of a multiplicity of resources.

Two in the Wave will be accompanied by a number of artist publications and bookworks sharing a similar resonance and topicality, employed to showcase different perspectives and entries on the artistic engagement with bound volumes and the aquatic. In addition, the exhibition will see the release of a publication featuring a selected correspondence between Thomas Jenkins and Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk on the work The Seas and Oceans of The World.

The title of the publication is CC, published in an edition of 100. CC is a collaboration between PrintRoom and Cahier. Get your copy at PrintRoom for 9 euro, or send an e-mail to info@printroom.org to order one.

Please join us at our temporary location at Art Rotterdam Projections. We’ve installed a mini PrintRoom at the entrance of the Fotomuseum, Las Palmas building.

We present the first proofs of the linocuts for the next edition of the Lubok Reihe we’re now preparing in collaboration with Christoph Rückhaberle/Lubok Verlag.

Maura Biava produced PrintRoom edition #1 (see text below)

Emilio Macchia (IT/NL)  and BlisterZine (IT) will join us on Saturday afternoon at 3 for book presentations

And of course we bring a big selection of books by Lubok Verlag (DE), BlisterZine (IT), Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. (SL), J+L books (US), Edition Taube (DE), Rollo Press (CH), Occasional Papers (UK), Onomatopee (NL), Post Editions (NL), NERO (IT), Fukt Magazine (DE), The Eriskay Connection (NL), Printed Matter (US), The Ice Plant (US), Temporary Services (US) and many more!

Freek Lomme from Onomatopee brings  new books from the L.A. art book fair on saturday. We made a special order and he selected some surprise items for us.

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For this occasion we invited Maura Biava to make an edition on our risograph stencilmachines. Maura made a new work based on the seven trinity series, in which she transforms  two basic mathematical shapes into one three dimensional model.

Maura Biava:
For my project “Trinity” I created an ” alphabet” of mathematical formulas that have a geometrical representation and give life to a bi-dimensional figure. The “index” is composed of some of the most classical and best-known formulas that were created by many European mathematicians from the 17^th to the 19^th century such as Newton, Pascal, Cartesio, Bernoulli, etc. I gave each maths formula the name of an abstract meaning that suits it according to me and to our culture. As an example I used the “exponential” number, which multiplies always by itself: 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc.

I named the “exponential” number “flight”, because it looks like a point that flies away. With the help of a maths programme for computers and maths expert Annamaria Ricotti, I combined different 2-dimension maths formulas obtaining maths formulas that have a 3-dimension representation.

PrintRoom proudly presents:

Featuring: Spin by Martha Colburn (US/NL)

This presentation is part of the programme of the 42^nd International Film Festival Rotterdam

Opening reception: 25 January 2013, 7 – 10 pm

The exhibition runs until 16 February

Festschrift for an Archive is a set of books commemorating the demise of the much-loved Film Stills Archive department that the Museum of Modern Art ran for decades.

In his publication project Jason Simon has reproduced the judgements of the National Labor Relations Board regarding MoMA’s decision to ship the museum’s massive Film Still Archive off to cold storage as a response to a strike led in part by the archive’s associate curator.

Simon has individualized each book with a film still representing some aspect of labor struggle. Ranging over film history these include stills from “Car Wash”, “The Crowd”, “I’m All Right Jack”, “Modern Times”, “Nine to Five”, “The Organizer”, “Salt of the Earth”, and “Strike”.

Rarely has the connection between labour and cinema quite been so material as in the story of the FSA

The Flip Collection III

The Flip Collection is an international, growing collection of flipbooks, part of PrintRoom’s travelling collection of publications by artists, designers, photographers and theoreticians. A flipbook (also called thumb cinema) is a booklet that, for a short moment, becomes a film.

Feature Flip: Spin by Martha Colburn
PrintRoom invited Martha Colburn (US/NL) to transform a selection of her film material into a flipbook. See for yourself, in just a few seconds, what a seductive lady and a spider have in common.

Contributions by: Ghenadie Popescu (MD), Maike Hemmers (DE/NL), Gözde Türkkan | Mimiko (TR), Georg Traber CH), Elena Gilbert (US/DE), Max Senden (NL), Rachel Sender (ES/NL), Antje Van Wichelen (BE), Lawrence-Olivier Mahadoo (US/FR), Han Hoogerbrugge (NL), Sarah Vanagt (BE) & Katrien Vermeire (BE), Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva (NL/RU), Esther Urlus (NL), Bas Fontein (NL), Gloria Glitzer (DE), Quinten Swagerman (NL), Scott Blake (US), Ricardo Leal Gomes (PT), Roger Bygott (UK), Alice Rice (US), Jenny Suhonen (FI), Loes Verstappen (NL), Ernesto Morales (MX), Terhi Ekebom (FI), Andre Pielage (NL), Jenni Rope (FI), Mariana Zanetti (BR), Kati Rapia (FI), Samuli Otto-Henrik Saarinen (FI), Anne Roecklein (US), Marieke Verbiesen (NL/SE), Derek Parker (US), Lise Duclaux (BE), Jan Voss (NL), Com Amoras (PT), Maurizio Montalti (IT), Tomas Schats (NL), Michael Leigh (UK), Guilia Garbin (IT/UK) among others.

Further information:

Jason Simon worked as an assistant curator of film and video at the Wexner Center for the Arts from 1989 to 1991 and currently teaches at the College of Staten Island. He was represented by the Pat Hearn Gallery from 1994-1999 and also exhibited at American Fine Arts. His work has appeared in the Whitney Museum Biennial; Neue Gallerie, Graz; the New Jersey Arts Annual; The New Museum and The Kitchen. In 2013, ten years of the One Minute Film Festival he co-hosts with Moyra Davey will become an exhibition at Mass MoCA.

Martha Colburn is a filmmaker and multimedia artist. Born in Pennsylvania, she now lives and works between Holland and New York City.

Presentation dates: 24 January – 16 February 2013

The presentation of Jason Simon is supported by the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).

PrintRoom wishes you all a very happy New Year!!  We thank all participants, visitors, customers, publishers, supporters and host organisations for a successful 2012 and we hope to see you again in 2013, as we are planning a new year full of exciting events. Starting with:

The Launch Club # 1 (at tea time)
January 11, 2013, 6 – 9 pm at PrintRoom
with: Joris Lindhout, Eric Philippoz, Bosco Hernandez, Geirthrudur Finnbogadottir Hjorvar, David Widart and Damien Aresta

Brazilian Gothic Is not for Beginners by Joris Lindhout and Maaike Gouwenberg (NL)
[O gótico Brasileiro não é para principiantes] Publication, published by Capacete Entretenimentos.

Brazilian Gothic Is not for Beginners is a collection of 4 essays bringing together different approaches to gothic thinking in Brazilian culture. Gothic thought deals with the cracks that modernization processes tear in the social fabric. It forms an important tool in the analysis of dissident and subversive culture production. Even though Brazil never developed a gothic architecture or literature per sé, the influence of gothic culture is strong in the land of antropofagía. With Brazilian Gothic Is not for Beginners Joris Lindhout and Maaike Gouwenberg shine some light in the dark regions of the tropics.

With texts by Leandro Cardoso Nerefuh, Maaike Gouwenberg & Joris Lindhout, Jorge Sallum and Daniel Serravalle de Sá.
Design: Erik Kiesewetter (US)
Edition: 500
Year: 2012

Circle, Square, Star, Triangle, Cross by Joris Lindhout, Bokyung Jung, Saem Lee, Narae Jin, Sangsup Jung, Gwangsig Yoo
○□★△× (Circle Square Star Triangle Cross) is staged in 2097 and deals with a suitcase found during an excavation on a soon-to-be re-developed piece of land in South Korea. The suitcase contains all kinds of newspaper clippings, photo’s, scribbles and notes which are pieced together in an effort to make a reconstruction of the downfall of the city which was previously located on that land.
The book was produced during a residency at Space Beam, Incheon (South Korea).
Year: 2012

Livret de service by Eric Philippoz and Bosco Hernández
“Writing in a hammock, enveloped, in suspension. Isolated. Except for the noises that filter in from the outside, muffled by cloth, foreign sounds that enter my ears and become mine.” (Excerpt from Livret de service)
Livret de service is a compilation of texts Eric Philippoz wrote between September 2009 and March 2010, while executing social work in Brazil. Autobiographical, sometimes intimate, these writings attest to a process, a transition.
Concept: Eric Philippoz and Bosco Hernández
Author: Eric Philippoz
Design: Bosco Hernández
Publisher: Dutch Art Institute
Year: 2012

« La roue voilée » by David Widart (BE)
A self-published book tracing a journey in the scars of cities and their living beings.

‘Once in motion, the veiled wheel placed on an axis traces a continuous line and sows its spatter. The inevitable left to right sloshing causes a feeling of joy. It looks like a frenzied dance. The beauty of imperfection seems unbeatable. Reality slowly turns to desires.’

La roue voile is the first book by L’Amicale publishing (BE).
Photography David Widart
Graphic design PLMD (pleaseletmedesign)
Number of pages 88
Year: 2012

MINDGAMES by Geirthrudur Finnbogadottir Hjorvar (IS/NL)
Mindgames is a quadrangled story about shades and variations in co-dependence and sovereignty, inspired by a musician (John Lennon), a theorist (Henri Lefebvre), an author (Halldor Laxness) and a demented ruler of Rome (Caligula).

Mindgames is constituted by four parts – ordered in alternating sequence – to form thirteen chapters in total. Each of the four sections holds a biographical account of its subject: Caligula, Henri Lefebvre, John Lennon and Halldór Laxness. The chapters can be read separately, as they have been conceived to be independent wholes, forming biographies that present portraits of associations rather than particular statements about individual lives. The text, however, is constructed to alternate rhythmically between the main motives. The motives in turn produce variations on particular themes as they modulate into different parts within the totality of the work as a whole. Mindgames was conceived as a way to enjoy information in the tradition of autodidacts of the past – but in a style which is commingled with a reverence towards traditional modes of archiving the world.
Published in collaboration with Werkplaats Typografie.
Edition: 500
Year: 2012