MONDAY, 18th of November, 2013
Xmas is coming and alot of people will be splashing their cash out on stuff for loved ones. As a considered alternative to all the mass produced shite usually bought we recommend buying something with more an Intrinsic value like a piece of art made by someone with hands and feet and noses, a human. So here we compiled a list of 5 good wholesome places and artists to buy things off of via the Intenet. Enjoy
1. RE:SURGO
An amazing collection of prints and zines very reasonably priced and beautiful to hold and look at.
About:
Swedish-French artist duo Anna Hellsgård and Christian “Meeloo” Gfeller, now based in Berlin, have been working together since 2001, creating and producing prints, artists’ books, sculptures, zines and more in their print studio Re:Surgo!, cementing their reputation as master silkscreeners and innovators of the medium with every new project. Christian’s incessant artistic output began in 1995, making punk zines under the name Bongoût. From day one, Hellsgård and Gfeller have placed as strong an emphasis on intuition and skill as on DIY ethics and communal practice, in frequent collaborations with other artists on print projects, organizing exhibitions and opening their independent artist space and retail store in Berlin to international artists and musicians.
Perfectionists in terms of technique, their sought-after limited edition prints are meticulously produced from start to finish. Throughout the years, their desire to never repeat themselves and to pursue formal innovation and challenging visual content have animated every project and inspired further experiments. In their quest to constantly test and push the boundaries of the medium, they have begun to deconstruct its conventions, techniques and formal structures. Their series of monoprints Bad Printing illustrates this intention to question the familiarity of the silkscreening process, as it consciously highlights – and celebrates – its idiosyncrasies. Across the intentional overlaps, smudges, bleeding, glitches and transparencies we can recognize, in the two dimensions, a temporal axis as well, a decidedly analogue visual chronology of becoming. As such, each unique print is conceived like an experimental painting, in which accidents and errors play an important part. This resonates with one of their favorites, German painter Georg Baselitz, who described his approach as a struggle, a taming, a negotiation with the image in becoming: “I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived... and the picture that fights for its own life.”
Experimentation can never be about control. For Hellsgård and Gfeller, it is also, importantly, about un-learning. Chance is given a new prominence in the Bad Printing series. Using investigations into different intensities of abstraction and aleatory geometry, more intuitive than mathematical, these prints create an evocative fractal landscape of shapes, colors and depth. With their series of unique books, such as The Idiot, The Stranger or The Prince, Hellsgård and Gfeller have also re-thought the format of the book. Each of the books in this series is titled after a canonic literary work, and, with its solemn cover and precious binding, like a unique manuscript, prompts to rethink the understanding of what a book is, how it is made, how it circulates as a material object and how it mediates its content. Each page is a unique print, and on each, the pictorial references and figurative elements disintegrate and realign into an abstract composition across the multiple planes of the image. Echoing its literary namesake, a dense visual narrative emerges across the pages of each book.
- nine yamamoto masson
Re:Surgo! / Gfeller & Hellsgård's works have been exhibited worldwide and are in numerous museums and collections such as the MoMA NY, MoMA SF, Stanford Art Library, Harvard University's Fine Art Library, the State Museum of Berlin's Art Library, the Yale University Art Collection and many more.
The Collection of the University of Minnesota recently bought the complete silk-screened artists' book archive of Bongoût (1995-2012).
WEBSITE HERE
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2. DAVID BALFE
Student of Fine art printmaking In NCAD. Currently studying In Khib In Bergen, Norway.
David Balfe Is an artist we met In Dublin. He make some wonderful lithograph prints of UFC fighters which are available from his big cartel website here
3. ANNE VAN DER LINDEN - Chéri je t'aime
This is a wonderful screen printed book of Anne Van Der Lindens amazing drawings. Buy here
2011-36 p. - 22.5 x 30
recent Drawings
boards silkscreened in black
felt marker on Gross natural Centaur
Dress double flaps
on structured wood Savanna Wood
silkscreened black and silver
450 copies numbered from 1 to 450
editions Bibliophile Popular Workshop
- 25 euros (including shipping)
recent Drawings
boards silkscreened in black
felt marker on Gross natural Centaur
Dress double flaps
on structured wood Savanna Wood
silkscreened black and silver
450 copies numbered from 1 to 450
editions Bibliophile Popular Workshop
- 25 euros (including shipping)
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