de/cipher > FINISSAGE - May 21 > ARTI et AMICITIAE, Amsterdam + Photos

On the semiotic interplay of ciphering and deciphering and their translation into lines, shapes, colors, patterns, signs and symbols.

Curator Susannah Cremer-Bermbach / Participants
José Heerkens, Gracia Khouw, Johanna Reich, Marjorie Welish, complemented and deepened by objects, works on paper, video, artist books and works and performances dedicated to the acoustic aspect of language by Carlo Battisti, Julia Bünnagel, Jochen Gerz, Eugen Gomringer, Jill van Grinsven + Jakke Jalink, Keti Kapanadze, Naho Kawabe, Wjm Kok, Joseph Kosuth, Tatjana Macić, Vera Molnar, Franz Mon, Gonzalo Reyes Araos, Gerhard Rühm, Eva-Maria Schön, Anita Stöhr Weber, Timm Ulrichs, Peter Wüthrich; Paul Goede, Jane Brucker + Jeremy Wasser, Timo Berndt
link to press release NL/EN

de/cipher > April 21 - May 21, 2023
Arti et Amicitiae, Rokin 112, Amsterdam > arti.nl

-> A catalog of de/cipher gkg Bonn is available €7

Images: snapshots of the opening and public programme, installation views of the show by Maarten Nauw Photography

-> SCHEPPEN photos
-> about the wall work
-> limited editions

PUBLIC PROGRAMME
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• April 22
  2 PM - Paul Goede - Séance
  3 PM - Curator + Artists Talk

• April 23, May 6 + 7, all at 2 PM - Paul Goede - Séances

• Friday April 28, 4 PM - Timo Berndt - Literaturperformance A  und B  leuchten im Klee - Poetry as sound, material and subtle play with language.
  

• May 12 + 19, at 4 PM - Friday MEET, GREET & READ - Gracia Khouw, reading SCHEPPEN
  

• Sunday 21 May (finissage),
  2.30 PM - Jane Brucker & Jeremy Wasser - Unravel performance
  3.30 PM - Booklaunch Gonzalo Reyes Araos - Bitmap Poemarium
  
  

below: invite designed by Katja Vercouteren, click on the image for enlargement.

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In Preparation: Project X, First Edition of 2 Accordians

Project X is a collaboration with painter and art critic Marjorie Welish. We’ve been working on our project when Marjorie invited me for a collaborative dialogue in 2019. To start we had agreed on which words we would concentrate on, complex concepts from the book A work, and .../ by Marjorie. Also in addition, I suggested categories of words which have a certain attraction, a more musical association. I selected the words and worked them out into images. Marjorie responded to this with six images with drawings and actions: overlapping and superimposing images.

The images have now been printed, mine here in Amsterdam and Marjorie’s in New York. The giclee prints are folded as accordians (also called ‘lepporellos’ or zig-zag folds) and are brought together in an archival box. They will accompany an exhibition of our collaboration . More information will follow soon.

Link Marjorie Welish

New page: LIMITED EDITIONS of SITE-SPECIFIC works

XXXL / 2015
giclée print / fine art paper 305 gsm / 59,4 X 42 cm, edition of 8

When requested to design for a specific location, I often offer the blueprint or studies for sale as inkjet prints. Sometimes an exhibition space has little budget and selling prints is a welcome addition to my design budget.
About these prints: they’re are also called piezography or giclée and are printed on archival fine art paper and the ink is fade resistant. Now I've put together a page on which the prints can be seen. Please contact me for information and to order.
LINK Prints Site-Specific Works

NL
Wanneer ik een ontwerp te maak voor een specifieke locatie of tentoonstelling, bied ik vaak daarbij het ontwerp of studies hiervoor als inkjet prints te koop aan. Soms heeft een tentoonstellingsruimte weinig budget en is verkoop van prints een welkome aanvulling op mijn ontwerpbudget.
Over deze prints: ze worden ook piezografie genoemd of giclée; ze zijn op geprint op zuurvrij fine art papier en de inkt is ‘fade resistant’. Nu heb ik een pagina samengesteld waarop de prints te zien zijn. De prints kunnen direct bij mij besteld worden.
LINK Prints Site-Specific Works

A Ladies Thing / Barentsz Urban Fabric

IAMNOT A TOURIST is a silk scarf designed by me. Mirjam Hagoort of Barentsz Urban Fabric came up with the City Scarf concept with city maps and has invited other artists to design a scarf. I’m the first to do so.

The design originated in my personal experiences during walks through the city. While slaloming through the stream of tourists I’m often addressed in English, as if I’m part of the tourist mass. These experiences have an alienating effect on me. Even though I have Chinese-Indonesian background, I feel myself being an Amsterdammer through and through. I’m not a tourist in my own town.
I want tourists to be more aware of their destination and to delve into its culture, as true cosmopolitans. I’d like visitors to involve themselves in the environment and not behave indifferently to it.

Warm up with the IAMNOT A TOURIST scarf, so that the city's ups and downs don’t leave you cold!

Available online store Barentsz Urban Fabric ++ Dreamboat Store, Czar Peterstraat 145, Amsterdam ++ MINK at The Cool Collective, Magna Plaza, Amsterdam ++ Stedelijk, Amsterdam Buchhandlung Walther König ++ Museumshop Den Haag

IAMNOT, 70 x 170 cm, silk scarf, limited edition (2018)

TWAALF/TMLSHD 2018

Happy with the new print! The rhisograph, 29 x 42 cm TWAALF/TMSLHD will be presented tonight at WestWednesdays 19.30 hrs. Thank you Stencilzolder/Sander Janszweert!
Location: Tetterode Building, Bilderdijkstraat 165-B, Amsterdam

This special edition is only available via West Wednesdays and costs only € 6; all proceeds go to next WW programs.
Contact come@westwednesdays.com 

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TOMELOOSHEID is a Dutch twelve letterword meaning being unrestrained or unbridledness. The word relates to the theme of this West Wednesday edition ‘Uitbundig’ (= exuberant). I set out to look for a word beginning with the letter T, and like in the name ‘Tetterode’, which is the name of the building, both words have 4 syllables.
It may be a starting point for a new series with Dutch twelve letter words.