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Emil Siemeister : vom Rufen zum semiotischen Fallenstellen, Museum Folkwang: PB 2-2017

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Current Location: In storage

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Emil Siemeister : vom Rufen zum semiotischen Fallenstellen, Museum Folkwang

Maker(s)

Artist: Siemeister, Emil
Publisher: Edition Folkwang/Steidl

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Description

Mit einem Vorwort von Tobia Bezzola und René Grohnert ; Texten von Jürgen Döring, Ferenc Jádi, und Emil Siemeister.
Catalog of the exhibition held at Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, 9 December 2016-19 February 2017.

Der Katalog widmet sich dem ungewöhnlichen Plakatwerk des österreichischen Zeichners und Performancekünstlers Emil Siemeister. Siemeisters Plakate sind zumeist--wie seine Fotos auch--integraler Bestandteil seiner Performances, Ausstellungen und Filmvorführungen. Damit sind sie von Anfang an Teil eines Gesamtkonzepts und selten "nur" Werbefläche. Seine Gestaltungen stehen oftmals auch in diametralem Gegensatz zur allgemeinen Lehrmeinung, etwa wenn es um die Frage geht, was ein Plakat ausmacht oder wodurch man Wirkung im öffentlichen Raum erzielen kann. Seine Haltung erklärt Siemeister so: "Im zeitlichen Abstand erfuhr ich, dass sich die Menschen, die sich an dieses oder jenes Plakat erinnerten, nicht an den Inhalt erinnerten, sondern an die Form als das gute oder schlechte Plakat. Der Verweis, die Absicht, blieb also am Medium selbst haften! Wenige Menschen sind der Dateninformation aufgrund der Plakatankündigung gefolgt, zumal auch damals schon die grafische Darstellungsform an der Grenze zum inhaltlichen Erahnen war."

95 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

Place(s) associated

  • Königsdorf

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (2017) by Siemeister, Emil

Dating

Production date: AD 2016

Note

"This edition of Darkfire has been designed and composed electronically by Susan Colberg. The prints by Sean Caulfield and corresponding poems by Jonathan Hart were created through a collaborative process. The images were developed on intaglio plates using mezzotint, etching and chine collé. The Spill and Cup include some hand tinting with acrylic ink and Black Wind has a layer of digital printing. The typeface used is Dante, designed by Giovanni Mardersteig, and the type was printed from polymer plates. The images are printed on Somerset, Gampi and Honen and the texts on Somerset. Sean Caulfield printed the images and texts with the technical assistance of Steven Dixon (letterpress), Marc Siegner (digital printing) and graduate students in the printmaking program at the University of Alberta." --colophon. Unbound sheets in a Japanese silk case. Limited ed. of 5 copies of which the Museum has no 4.

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Illustrations

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Chine collé
Printing
Mezzotint

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 2-2017
Primary reference Number: 221658
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Audit data

Created: Thursday 24 August 2017 Updated: Thursday 24 August 2017 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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