WRITE NOW! - A BOOKLYN EXHIBIT IN GERMANY

“WRITE NOW!”

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From The Tides Story by Xu Bing, Eliana Perez, Marshall Weber, 2006

An exhibit of artist books and drawings using innovative contemporary writing and typographical practices from Booklyn, Organik and Stohead (AKA Christoph Haessler)

Opening September 30th and running through November 15th, 2009,

At the

KLINGSPOR MUSEUM, OFFENBACH
Herrnstraße 80, 63065 Offenbach am Main, Germany
(15 minutes from Frankfurt)
Telefon 069 8065-2164 und -2954
For more information contact curator Stefan Soltek at stefan.soltek@offenbach.de

With artwork by: Kurt Allerslev, Xu Bing, Eliana Perez, Sara Parkel, Raymond Pettibon, Veronika Schäpers, Laura Smith, Mark Wagner, Marshall Weber, Christopher Wilde, Yong-ming Zhai and many others.

Image from the Organik artists book Nervous System, 2009

„Booklyn’s and Organik’s staffs work tirelessly to put books in the hands of the people and to encourage the people’s hands to make more books. - Which Books? - Booklyn favors fresh, original writing and art and welcomes new media and innovative techniques and typography“. Organik (main ingredients, Kurt Allerslev, Laura Smith, Christopher Wilde and Marshall Weber) focuses on creating collaboratively produced unique painted books that integrate smell and touch with global ecological mythologies. Organik's books also feature calligraphy which integrates Brooklyn wild style graffiti with fractal forms found in botanical and animal structures.

So stellt sich die New Yorker Künstlergruppierung „Booklyn“ auf ihrer homepage vor. Für das Buch als aktuelle Austausch stiftende Kunstform engagiert, legt sie ein Schwergewicht auf handgemachte Einzelbücher (Organik).

Die Handschrift in ihnen greift Elemente des Graffitis auf, wie sie der Hamburger Graffitikünstler Stohead auf seine Weise in seinen kraftvollen schwarz-weiß gehaltenen Schriftgemälden mit Appellen an das gesellschaftliche Bewusstsein zur Geltung bringt. Marlon Mathis, Offenbach, und seinen intensiven Kontakten zur Szene des Graffitis verdankt das Museum den Kontakt zu Christoph Hässler (Stohead).

Hamburg based graffiti artist and contemporary calligrapher Stohead (AKA Christoph Hässler) provides local flavor.

EVENTS
Marshall Weber and Sam Winston will perform “Kann Denn Lieber Sunde Sein”, in the exhibition galleries on October 16th at 19:00 (7PM).

Weber will also lead a tour through the exhibition on Sunday October 18th at 11:00 (AM).

This page is maintained by Marshall Weber.