Participating Artists: Toon Teeken, George Korsmit, Sebastiaan Schlicher, Aldo van den Broek, Nik Christensen, Michiel ten Bokum, Rutger Floor, Paul Segers, Boris Tellegen, Simon Schrikker, Robert van Gijssel, Aukje Dekker, Vincent Dams, Nug, Egs, Jonas Ohlsson, Anthony Kleinepier, Alja Steinvag, Gigi Blay, Undog, Ruben Gutierrez, Ilga Minjon, Nieuw Brabants Front, Patrick Mangnus, Mister Adam, Marc Oosting, Luuk Kloosterboer, Patrick de Vries, Julien Couic, MOK-C, Gimzee, marjolijn de Wit, Frank van Ansem.
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What actually happens when ‘the books happen’? You might just find a package on the doormat one day. Maybe someone slips an obscure plastic bag into your hand at some opening.. Inside it you’ll most likely find a dummy, which contains some pre-printed images, various paper qualities and colours, and a lot of blank space. It’s the birth of another unique book in Henny Overbeek’s elaborate series of collaborations with other artists, designers, writers and the like.
Because nothing ‘just’ happens: you’ll need an invitation, a challenge. A challenge to work together in a Newtonian forcefield: Action = Reaction. Not just neatly opposite each other respecting the page, but on top of each other, crossing, scratching, ripping through each other. Adding to each other, refining, enhancing, lifting each other to a new and different language. Improvised, precise, wild, conceptual, colourful, transparent.. The books travel. From one forcefield to another, and from one geographical spot to another. From you, back to Henny, back to you.. As long as it takes. The books start to live, grow, wear. They get scarred, cut, shot, take on a monumental form, get painted, collaged, titled.. and then, slowly.. the books start to happen. Paul Segers, 2015. |
Opening The Books Happen (first edition) 2015, KUUB, Utrecht. Photo's: Peter Cox.
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Up-tempo video collage of The Books Happening...
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