hA! After a break of 2 years because of 'you-know-what' the Ghent Festivities (Gentse Feesten) were back in the city. Since their origin in 1843, the Ghent Festivities have developed into one of the largest cultural festivals in Europe. This ten days festival is both an urban festival, a cultural event and a large-scale popular feast.
Read MoreTypowalk. 17.07.
Laat je verrassen door de straattypografie van Gent, maak kennis met de Amsterdamse krulletter en bewonder recent werk van hedendaagse letterkunstenaars!
Wanneer: zondag 17 juli 2022
Uur: van 15 tot 17 uur
Waar: Industriemuseum
Reserveren: noodzakelijk, koop je ticket(s) vooraf via de online ticketshop
'Ka-ching!' Posters for the Museum of Industry
To celebrate the opening of the new temporary exhibition 'Ka-ching!' at the Museum of Industry, 2 letterpress printed posters has been added to the museum shop.
Read More'This exhibition introduces you to contemporary purchasing behaviour, mass consumption and consumerism. You are also welcomed to a typical corner shop from the 1960s with stacks of cans, jars of candy and an old-fashioned balance scale on the counter. '
HITS! – PRINTMAKERS' TOP TEN
When Annegret Frauenlob (Atelier für Grafik und Buchkunst, DE) invited me to participate in the 'Hits! Printmakers' Top Ten' project I wasn't quite familiar with it yet, but as it involved music and printmaking I thought 'Hey, you can't go wrong with that, can you;)'.
Read MoreBorn in Armenia, grew up between Russia and the Netherlands and now living in Belgium chasing my graphical madness.
Proud to be a part of this series of designers portraits (Dutch-spoken), filmed by Sebastiaan Vandierendonck (Walbaum Brothers) at the Museum of Industry (Ghent) this summer. Here is my short story about being born in Yerevan (Armenia), moving to Moscow (Russia), spending my childhood at the Embassy of the Soviet Union in The Hague (Netherlands). Speaking four languages, having a stammer and which influence it had on my professional life (spoiler: it is OK ; ). About my graphical journey in Belgium where I live for the last 18 years, my graphic design heroes and the importance of typesetting with wood/metal type and letterpress printing for future graphic designers.
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David Armes. Artist's talk from the Museum of Industry in Ghent. Monday 06.12.2021.
For the coming week David Armes from Red Plate Press (UK) will be an artist in residence at the printing department of the Museum of Industry in Ghent. Discovering the collection and making some new work. Looking forward to see the results and enjoy the artist's talk David will be giving on Monday 6 December at 16 o’clock.
And here is the link to follow the talk online - link
(it is free, no registration is required).
DAVID ARMES
Biography
David Armes is a visual artist from the north of England working with print, language and geography. His work is frequently site-specific and considers how experience of place can be represented. He has been working primarily with letterpress printing on paper for over 10 years and the final forms can vary in shape and size from large sculptural paper installations to small artists’ books. Through using what was once an industrial print process, he is interested in where the multiple meets the unique, where the ephemeral meets the archival. His recent commissions include work for The Poetry Society, Nordic Summer University and the University of Oxford’s Centre for Digital Scholarship and he is a current Visiting Fellow at the British Library. He travels regularly for residencies in the UK, US and across Europe and his work is held in collections such as the Bodleian Library (University of Oxford), Museum für Druckkunst (Leipzig, Germany) and the Fine Art and Design Library, University of Bergen Library (Norway).
Why I’d like to come to the Industriemuseum and what my plans are
I visited the Industriemuseum in 2017 and was immediately struck by the powerful stories held within the collection and building. I knew this was a place I wanted to revisit one day on a longer residency. For the past few years I have been creating a print and artist's book series called ’Text Landscapes’: pieces of typographic art that are a record of my response to a place. I will create a new iteration of this series during my residency, pulling together sources of oral history, conversations with people and my observations and photographs of the city. The history, and the present day, of printing and graphic arts in Ghent will be a wonderful inspiration.
Links:
www.redplatepress.com
www.redplatepress.com/prints.html
Instagram / Twitter / Facebook: @redplatepress
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Sunday type walks in Bookish Talks by iBookBinding.
Proud to be a part of this Bookish Talk by iBookBinding, discussing my 'unhealthy' interest for public lettering and typography. In case you are not familiar with it yet, iBookBinding is a podcast and blog about book arts and book history. They also have a shop offering a variety of tools.
Thank you Stepan & Pyotr for this opportunity to talk about my Sunday type walks in Ghent and abroad! Check out the video and enjoy the walks in the city of Ghent as I do ;)