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STEIDL-WERK No.30: KUNSTHAUS GOETTINGEN

Hardback

Main Details

Title STEIDL-WERK No.30: KUNSTHAUS GOETTINGEN
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Theseus Chan
By (author) Gerhard Steidl
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:280
Dimensions(mm): Height 360,Width 260
Category/GenreNon-graphic art forms
ISBN/Barcode 9783969991619
ClassificationsDewey:686.2315
Audience
General
Illustrations 143 Illustrations, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Steidl Publishers
Imprint Steidl Verlag
NZ Release Date 26 March 2023
Publication Country Germany

Description

Shaped by spontaneity and subversion, STEIDL-WERK No.30: KUNSTHAUS GOETTINGEN redefines the traditions of offset printing. Each book in this limited edition boasts a different range of colors and is thus unique. The publication is a collaboration between Theseus Chan, Gerhard Steidl and the art space Kunsthaus Goettingen, where Chan showed WERK No.30 in "printing futures" as part of documenta 15. The installation, which he added to daily, was Chan's love letter to printed matter in all its forms (from paper sheets and printing plates to recycled packaging), and the book is both the documentation and final piece of this work. Chan and Steidl took up the manifest of WERK No.30-"to malfunction established mindsets, techniques, and procedures by sabotaging machines and human interventions"-and realized it in book form through what they call "reverse engineering," deconstructing the processes of printing in order to enhance the results. Embracing intuition and chance, they retained normally discarded test sheets for binding, shut off water on press to create unpredictable color patterns, and exchanged standard CMYK colors for fluorescent variants. The outcome champions "printed anarchy" and is no less than a wholly new form of book.