AMSTERDAM 7-10 DECEMBER 2017 4bid Gallery OT301
GRAPHICALL announced its 2nd juried exhibition devoted to prints. This year we received applications from all over the globe bringing together a diverse representation of the print world today. GRAPHICALL exhibits Dutch and International artists working in the medium of printmaking alongside a series of workshops and a symposium hosting guest speakers from the field of contemporary printmaking. With this initiative we promote a discussion on what printmaking is today and encourage a reconsideration of the graphic mediums as versatile and multifaceted. A range of print-related media amongst which work on paper 2D, 3D, animation, installation were submitted, gathering the most diverse and interesting print collection.
ABOUT
GRAPHICALL
GRAPHICALL 2017 is hosted by 4bid Gallery situated in the multimedia cultural centre OT301, Amsterdam. Inaugurated this year in December GRAPHICALL strives to manifest itself as a key event for printmakers and appreciators, unmissable in the arts calendar. It runs over a long weekend (December 7th to 10th) that includes the Exhibition Vernissage, talks by guest artist speakers about Printmaking techniques and the way these are applied in their work, workshops led by practising specialists accessible to experienced and inexperienced, Exhibition Finissage with presentation of the GRAPHICatalogue 2016, a publication collecting the documentation of the festival, featuring the exhibiting artists.
SELECTED ARTISTS GRAPHICALL 2017
Kirsten van Schreven Ignacia Mesa Anabel
S.Chatterjee
Sophie
Willoughby Connor
Furr
Adam
Czech
Alexandra Bury Dominik
Wlodarek
Jones Frederick Vaiva Chandan
Kovieraite Bez
Baruah
Linda Aquaro Milena
Maksimovic Алена Алешина
Maurizio Johanna
Muolo
Pihlajamaa
Pieter Lerooij Leo Olga
Boyd
Mazyarkina Talia
Benabu
Jaco
Putker
Joshua
Watts
Pallavi
Mool
GUEST SPEAKERS 9.12.2017
Deimion van der Sloot Selvihan Kilik Ates Dana Verbaan
Project
coordinator Irina
Baldini
4bid
gallery
CONTACT 4bidgallery@gmail.com
Alexandra Bury Description of ideas presented graphic works: Series of prints is a personal observation of the production line and the man placed in its industrial landscape. Landscape is not necessarily friendly to man, imposes its rhythm, requirements and pace of action, turning up after some time in the space of less alien, sometimes imparting a clear sense of life. Man adapts, becoming an important part of the machine, the next element of the production puzzle of increasingly mechanized movements - already almost "naturally automatic". His uncertain, chaotic movements become more productive over time, in line with the agreed scheme. Abstract form with the expressive structure in the aesthetic, graphical way reveal to us the hidden world of social beings whose every day work turns into a thinking machine on the production line. Between the work of the hands with monotonous, almost automatic movements, interspersed conversations and reflections that keep it at a constant sense of humanity. Ambiguous graphic forms reveal to us cares of human everyday life, shyly reveal another layer of ordinary and unusual hopes and dreams and loose thoughts permeating involuntarily in the structure of objects that appear in the production line. Between the work being done by his hands with their monotonous, almost automatic movements, interspersed conversations and reflections give this human being a constant sense of humanity.
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Johanna Pihlajamaa I am a visual artist, a professional printmaker. I am interested in colors and simple variation colors can give, when changing coloring of the plates. My art works are abstract images of nature and environment. I use etching techniques on copper, woodblock printing and drawing. Sometimes I combine techniques. I do more unique prints than a series. I vary the theme, I work long periods with the same plates.
1/1 From the series Figuring
Maurizio Muolo Engraving, etching in particular, is my primary means of exploration in the visual arts. The content of my work blends the rich traditional engraving with the music I listen to and the mood of the moment. Looking symbolism, nature and energetic atmosphere in the place where I live, in south Italy, especially in the sea. My work is very much based on color and sign, sometimes in deep-etching. The bold graphic signs and etching technique reaffirm the voltage and energy. I create intense atmosphere and a dramatic sense of amplified light, with the addition of fluorescent colors. The shades, background texture, aquatints, the rainbow-roll soften the focus or strengthen the focus and contributes to the dreamlike quality of the piece. My teacher functions were a co-worked with lessons of the Master Printmaker, making printing and engraving demonstrations. I followed the students in the classroom lessons / extra-activities / exhibitions / resolve any problems that arose with the behavior and work ethic safety and security of the students with whom I worked. I designed a printmaking course for beginner and superior level students. I introduced a processes printmaking: relief using woodblock, intaglio printmaking using multi process intaglio plate (traditional and experimental), printmakers method (traditional, Hayter, poupee, mixed media, ect.) Introduce students to history of print. Inform and demonstrate of warrantly and hazardous aspects of the studio and equipment. Maintain the cleanliness and order of the printmaking lab. Evaluate student performance and learning. Provide timely feedback. Assign grades consistent with student mastery of course objectives. I work with the students to formulate and understand their concepts through coursework, providing research tools, new textures, visual language, multi mixed media.
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Sophie Willoughby Sophie Willoughby is an artist/printmaker who lives and works in Bristol, UK. Architecture and the body have always inspired her work. The idea of anthropomorphic qualities in buildings that resemble human structures, such as the skeleton and how architecture often mirrors the body, in particular the way the human body informs our urban space and the tension between the organic and the man made. The formal qualities of architecture are her starting points; geometry, structure, light and shade. Captured initially with photography, images are broken down and fragmented through the process of screenprint, to form ambiguous prints, verging on abstraction.
Bear
Ignacia Mesa Website: www.ignaciamesa.com
Alameda 486
Linda Aquaro Born in Cisternino in 1982. He attended the Painting Course at the Grottaglie State Art Institute, where he graduated in 2000. In 2007 she graduated with a degree in Architecture, with a focus on the theme of the ideal and utopian city. Since 2006 he has collaborated with various capital architectural studies. During this period he develops a personal use of collage in painting, a technique that will focus on a series of extruders (such as the "Favola" cycle of 2008) and works that have the theme of the human figure and the city. The most recent works are on figurative subjects, with a note of greater realism, dealing with issues related to death and change. In addition, with the cycle "Resistance chronicles", the artist addresses the theme of resistance and social struggle. In 2011 he meets the world of engraving through Gina Marziale's staff, which will teach him the basic notions of choreography. In the same year he met the incisor Gianni Verni and Viviana del Carpio, with whom he founded in 2013 the Cultural Association for the broadcasting of " Officine Incisorie " choreography. From 2012 she works on the project "What remains of heaven", a collection of works made with various techniques (oil, pastels, monotype, cyanotype): a description of Italian places and cities told through their "celestial negatives".
Finestre
Annabel Schenck S. Chatterjee Annabel is specialized in printed image since her studies at the Estienne school in Engraving. She then joined the School of Decorative Arts in the Book Department, where she continued her research on the book-object and art books, the engraved image and the space in which she worked. She went to India to study traditional woodcutting with artisans in Calcutta, then to join Viswa-Bharati University, Santiniketan. She has exhibited her bibliophile work in several exhibitions such as the Colmar Book Fair, the Paris Book Fair and the Brussels Book Fair, with the collective Sheep Editions, founded in 2010. Her book of wood engravings Tchik Jroulns was published in 300 copies by L'ESAD Editions following the L'Ours competition. His engravings were exhibited at the ST'ART contemporary art fair in October 2010. She won the Friends of the Arts and Museums Award in September 2010 and exhibited her work in the Bertrand Gillig Gallery in Strasbourg. Since 2010, she has exhibited her work in various Indian galleries, and she made her first solo exhibition in April 2014 in a gallery in New Delhi. Her last exhibition featured her latest art book Dust City, self-published in 5 copies. She works today in her studio in the city of artists of the Convent, managed by the association Juxtapoz.
Serie Les Enigmes, 3
Adam Czech born on 4th June 1976 in Katowice. In 1996 he graduated from The Secondary School of Fine Arts in Katowice. Next, from 1996 to 2000 studied at University of Silesia, Art Institute. Artist graduated with distinction from Graphic Department from prof. Delecta’s class. This studying at University of Silesia made graphic passion. His works were presented at about 30 individual exhibitions and 220 group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. He won 15 awards in national and international art competitions (e.g. 1 place award in the category: lithography - Fifth International Miniature Print Biennale Exhibition, The Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa; Canada; An mention at the Footprint - International Competition `14; Center for Contemporary printmaking, Norwalk; USA; An mention of chairman Union of Polish Artist in Living of Art – Municipal Cultural Center, Czarnkow, Poland; „The Excellent Prize in "Ju Qi Cup”, The 7 th International Exlibris Invitation Competition of Fu Xian Zhai”, Expo Shanghai, China; 1 place award in the International Competition for Ex libris: „1863 Sukilimas Exlibris”, Vilnius, Lithuania…) Studies at the Silesian University in Cieszyn made the graphics have become my passion through which to this day I try to see the world. Since the graduation from the university I made a few graphic cycles. My graphics has already started a reflection on what was, as well as an attempt to find space for it in modern times. Magic, mysticism and alchemy (especially in algraphy) is a significant topics at birth the new schedule. Algraphic apply to both the physical and spiritual aspects of the culture of ancient Greece. My works are a mix of inspiration outside world with my inner dialogue.
Asfodelow's meadow
Elena Aleshina Graphic artist. Graduate from Moscow Textile Institute with specialization in Applied Arts. A teacher of Applied Arts in Child Charity fund " " . Teach drawing and painting for children with autistic spectrum disorders (project Ulitka ART).
Imagination
Kirsten van Schreven My work explores aspects of that natural human condition of conflict - war. War is conceived through perplexing oppositions - creation from the destruction, order from the disorder and justice from the injustice. I record the traces, iconic images and emotions associated with war and conflict. My life has been measured in war, from my grandfather who would never speak of his time in the trenches of the First World War, to my father and his stories of surviving the German occupation of western Netherlands during the Second World War. I grew up in the era of The Cold War, the IRA and the Falklands conflict, followed by two Gulf wars and the current "war on terror".Few artists address the subject of war but it is a constant undercurrent in our daily lives, moulding us and our national identities. War is a culturally transformative experience and the trauma of these conflicts can be passed on through our DNA to subsequent generations - we are all haunted by war in some way.
Airframe, 2
Pieter Lerooij Lerooij Pieter (°1958) lives and works in the smal town Elverdinge (Ypres) in Belgium. He was educated in Free Graphicism at the St-Lucas institute in Ghent. A part from his activities as an etcher, he also works as a painter
Joshua Watts The creative process is never a straight line. As each piece progresses, I continuousl challenge and reinterpret what it will provide to viewers as an aesthetic experience. The materials I use are physical manifestations of the ideas exploredacting as conduits between concept and tangible reality. Glass, wood, paper, sand, and rope combine with ink pigments and photographic emulsions to blur the line between object and illusionistic representation. The finished form that results is an embodiment of concept, rather than a simple reflection of it. My recent creative work is the direct result of moving to the UAE, focusing very intently on the examination of identity and location through the individuals and objects I have found in my new surroundings. The found objects I collect act as physical records of a location’s memory- unique artifacts that carry embedded remnants of the time and place they are discovered. My portrait work has evolved into more collaborative ventures with my subjects, directly engaging them through interviews and feedback asking for meaningful insights influencing the outcome of the piece. As these two bodies of work have begun to merge, I find myself constantly surprised at the unexpected results of this exploration. Currently, I have begun taking my newest body of works out of the gallery space and into public environments through site-specific solar lightbox installations. During the day, an image is presented to viewers, installed in an area with high pedestrian activity. When the sun goes down, the work lights up to reveal additional information that recontextualizes the original imagery. These “binary message” works have led me to begin studying timelapse videography as a way to document the changing nature of the artworks and show how they evolve through the course of a day and night in these public environments. All of my work is an exploration of the many ways we can perceive and interact with the people and environs of the world around us. Just as light going through a prism becomes an entire spectrum, the ideas, contexts, and motivations embedded within our daily lives are always more than what they appear on the surface. I hope to continue my creative growth by finding new and exciting ways to articulate ideas to the viewing public. This persistent search for improved expression will continue to drive my creative exploration and I look forward to the discoveries awaiting me at each new step.
Fragmentary Amalgam
Frederick Jones I started making prints in 2005 and work in etching, drypoint, mezzotint, and wood engraving. I have exhibited nationally and internationally (including Denmark, Canada, Australia, U.S., Poland, Belgium, Russia, Estonia, Malaysia, Egypt, Italy, and France), and at the Open Exhibitions of the Society of Wood Engravers, the Royal Engravers, New English Art Club, the Royal Scottish Academy, and the Royal Academy.
Vaiva Kovieraite The current body of artwork includes serigraphy and mixed media which transforms into own and unique technique. During the creative process I look for new and different ways of visual expression and a wider range of measures forming compositions. Mysterious, logic disobeyed, disregard, or even disavowal of principles of beauty. Through meditative practice I try to access altered states of consciousness which serves to reveal the unconscious realm. For my graphics I try to give a new spatial and temporal characteristics, to highlight what's close to subconsciousness, pseudo-reality, perverse imagination and uncertainty. While interpreting the postmodern worldview, elaborating on paradigm of this aspect I jump to conclusions and use them for my searches, composition and creation of artworks. Elements from inspirations such as folk art, folklore, fairy-tales, different patterns combine to call attention to my visual pieces as an alternative reality for today's actuality, which is sick of populism, politics and pseudo-realistic images degenerate by television. It has a slightly different format, dimensions and parameters. I concern myself with integrating the paradoxical consciousness of the seen and unseen words, from something totally mundane, commonplace and, perhaps trite, to unseen, unheard and unimaginable. As an artist I am interested in finding a unique approach to everyday live and sharing my individual realm with others. That way let me understand surrounding and everything whats in it differently. I hope that my artworks in some or another way enhance viewer’s way of thinking, consciousness and a way to see and understand what’s around us.
Fairytale after sleep, 2
Olga Mazyarkina “I am interested in various fields of science, such as anthropology, evolutionary psychology, global history. My thoughts and works take inspiration from this experience, the research for an answers about human essence. At the moment, I am concerned about the nature of a human quality, which I defined for myself as “radicalism.” History pushed my on towards this topic, in particular the history of Globalization, Opium Wars, the history of the 20th century of Russia and the entire World, as well as modern events, particularly in the Middle East. I collect pieces of my experiences and try to get conclusions in order to collect, just for myself, a general picture of this so complex, ALARMING TO ME, contradictory and difficult essence of ourselves, and, possibly, one day i will be able to accept it. In my project I often use the symbol 0, zero, or a circle - as a symbol of everything, a symbol of something complete, but at the same time a symbol of “nothing”, emptiness.”In my opinion it is also a symbol of human life - life is everything. My 0 is both, creation and destruction at the same time, birth and death, this is unity and “radicalism”. O as zero - is the measure of richness, success and the measure of tragedy.”
Expugnare, Dominari, Dividere
Milena Maksimovic The subject of art project Folie a deux is based on deliberation of different aspects of dualism in figuration through the relation of everlasting dualities: body-mind, male- female, external-internal, me-others, subjective-objective, private-public, and the mean is an optimal use of repetitions and constitution of picture by layers in the capacity of press media possibilities. Dualism, being the subject in my work in this investigation in several layers, could be connected with the concept borrowed from psychology folie a deux, which literally means in translation insanity of two persons, and is related to the disturbance which originates when two emotionally very close persons, after certain period of time, start completely to share the same lunatic ideas, fanatic beliefs, phobias, as well as psychopathic behavior. The person who supposes to be weaker is identified with the dominant one due to necessity to be accepted. According to From, the cause of the entire man’s anxiety is in aspiration to overcome his separation and loneliness and he is doing that through another person, through agglutination in the experience of love, which could be sensual, emotional and spiritual. Impossibility to create agglutination and overcome the polarity causes frustration, narrowness and alienation, which represent the picture of the century in which we live. I am trying to represent that through correlation of two types and contest to place them in. By using a graphic logic, which supports my mental course, I divide my work in several layers where each layer, technically is a separate passage, and in ideological layer, I investigate some aspects of dualism through description of its individual aspects. Bodies, which are in certain correlation in the space, same figures repeated several times in minimally changed “scenography� in different correlation with another stencil-figure, illustrate a dual relation happening between them. The relation of types that are represented and context where they are placed and which is very often a representation of impossibility to agglutinate between them, realize and overcome, represent frustration, narrowness, personal reexamination from the point of woman/mother/artist/author.
Foile au duex
Dominik Wlodarek www.dominikwlodarek.com Polish artist printmaker and an intaglio printmaking teacher at Intaglio Studio at Gdansk Academy of Fine Arts.
VA museum London, Staircase
Jaco Putker
Jaco Putker is a contemporary artist and printmaker from The Hague, The Netherlands. He combines digital and traditional techniques to produce images which are both playful and sinister, nostalgic and magical. His preferred medium is photopolymer, or solar plate, etching. This technique is a non-toxic way of etching which allow for photorealistic depictions. Rather than impose a meaning to his work, Jaco Putker invites the viewers to associate freely and give his etchings personal significance through individual perceptions and filters. The titles of the etchings are descriptive and give no handle as to the meaning of the works. The artist considers his works to be illustrations to fables which don't exist, but hopefully take shape in the beholders' minds. Jaco Putker was awarded with the dutch national Business Art Service competition for Graphic Arts in 2010. During the Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition in 2015, he won the Awagami Paper Factory Prize. In 2017 he won the ON PAPER International Printmaking Award 2017. His work has been exhibited in Holland, Belgium, Germany, Norway, Northern Ireland, Croatia, Bulgaria, Japan, Taiwan, China, Australia, Canada and the USA.
The grounds, no. 6
Connor Furr Everyday observations of the natural and urban environments around me are what drives me to create. Tucson, Arizona’s unique natural landscape and urban sprawl have inspired in me a love for contrast in line, shape, texture and color. My work utilizes mystifying aesthetics of the natural world and rough, angular geometries to discuss my frustrated yet reverent sense of belonging in my home town.
4th and Main
Chandan Bez Baruah Contemporary artist, from Guwahati Assam, lives and work in Delhi.
Talia Benabu Talia Benabu uses printmaking, painting, film and performance to create what she calls "landscapes of composed chaos". She studied Art History and Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2007-2010) and Fine Arts in the Master Class Programme of the Jerusalem Studio School (JSS) (2009-2012). Since graduating she has taken part in several residencies and workshops around Europe and has been engaged in teaching workshops in painting and printmaking. Her work has been exhibited in Israel, Germany, Sweden and Finland. Talia was born and raised in Jerusalem, Israel and has been living in Germany since February 2014. She currently lives in Berlin. Metropolis is a series of works in which monotype printmaking is used to create the raw material for collage, using material created by chance, rich in texture and tone. These landscapes of composed chaos are the result of a close and attentive search within the printed matter, a slow process of searching for a composition which would reflect a complex sensual experience, a simultaneity of events mirroring the experience of observing landscape.
Metropolis VI
Leo Boyd Leo Boyd was born in Hastings and studied his BA in Fine Art in Context in Bristol before moving to Ireland in the year 2000. Having studied and lived in the South of Ireland for 12 years Leo moved to Belfast in 2011 where he took up screen printing full time. Leo sees screen printing as a liberating art form, not only in the way it democratises the visual image, but in how it opens up into and encompasses sculpture, collage, photography and painting. When he work with screen printing Leo does not see the process as a way of simply creating multiple images but as an experimental and playful tool. Recently he has been working with creating large edition multiple prints that can be folded into 3 dimensional boxes as part of immersive installations. He has also been screen printing on walls. Leo has taken part in 2 residencies, one in Belgium (PÊpinières, 2000) and one in Berlin (2010). He has also received the Support for Individual Artists award (ArtsCouncil NI) twice in the last 3 years.
The singularity updates
Pallavi Mooi
Untitled 4, Viscosity
Some memories from GRAPHICALL 2017...
GRAPHICALL
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