221 - Pull back the bolt

Pull back the bolt

221 Pull Back the Bolt Born from a strong relationship, Skype™ conversations and misunderstandings, this fancine explores the limbo between understanding and misunderstanding. This publication shows how friendships are broken, misconceptions are created and truth is what time brings. It serves as a journal and part of a creative proces.

In it, we the artists live on with our own realities in different geographic locations, but remain together in a sort of artistic conciousness cloud, like if we both had a mind connection.

The name comes from a song of the band Minimal man that fit well with the first notion of being away from home. From this first encounter with , this fancine is born.

Through the creative process that the collective went through and publishing of this fancine new questions were asked about politics, relationships, filosophy, music and art. As we come across an era of pure digitalization of the world, we try to bring back importance to the aesthetic value in art.

Bring back beauty instead of calling any peice of everyday “art”.

221 is an art collective born in art school in Aranjuez, Spain. The name comes from the location where we spent the years we had class together studying fine arts. For us, the first contact with the art world. Spiritually served as a gate to artistic conciousness, given that we started a think-

ing process whitch would end up in the formation of a collective with the same view on the principles of what art should be like in the age we live in. We all agreed on continuing the artistic dialog between us through comunications through internet via Skype™, Facebook video calls, Whatsapp™, and emails. The artists have made a selection of these images that were comunicated or shown to each other as well as doodles and art work produced in this moment of communication and grouped them in this fanzine in a narrative or journalist fashion.

Printed by Pablo Pulgar in Workplaats Typographie in Arnhem, Netherlands in November 2015. nothingbutnet.hotglue.me Edition of 10 copies.

Cover art by Pablo Pulgar

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Printed in Arnhem 2015