Uranus
Uranus
Karel Martens further pushes his work into new dimensions with his work ‘Uranus’. The book itself feels different to anything else presented in this collection, and has a certain impressiveness to it, hard to convey in words.
Over 688 pages, Martens collects co-dependent slices of a single larger work; the book in its form acts reminiscent of a writing pad, the pages bound together with light glue for easy removal. Throughout the judging and especially scanning process of this floppy book, we’d been anxious to accidentally tear one out; the fact that this book got through 6 jury meetings and 3 scanning sessions unharmed, speaks for itself.
The idea is to remove the pages and arrange them yourself, as the single pages come together to a new, super-size composition of lines and colour. The cover, here, acts as a guide as to what that could look like. Wrapped together with funky type play, Uranus is a book that shouldn’t be kept on your shelf but taken apart and displayed on your favourite 7 x 3 meter wall.
- Kunstenaar
- Karel Martens
- Serie
- No
- Oplage
- 1000
- Omvang
- 688
- ISBN
- 978946440025
- Verschijningsdatum
- 31.12.21
- Uitgever / Opdrachtgever
- Roma Publications
- Ontwerper(s)
- martens & martens (Amsterdam)
- Lithograaf
- nvt
Karel Martens further pushes his work into new dimensions with his work ‘Uranus’. The book itself feels different to anything else presented in this collection, and has a certain impressiveness to it, hard to convey in words.
Over 688 pages, Martens collects co-dependent slices of a single larger work; the book in its form acts reminiscent of a writing pad, the pages bound together with light glue for easy removal. Throughout the judging and especially scanning process of this floppy book, we’d been anxious to accidentally tear one out; the fact that this book got through 6 jury meetings and 3 scanning sessions unharmed, speaks for itself.
The idea is to remove the pages and arrange them yourself, as the single pages come together to a new, super-size composition of lines and colour. The cover, here, acts as a guide as to what that could look like. Wrapped together with funky type play, Uranus is a book that shouldn’t be kept on your shelf but taken apart and displayed on your favourite 7 x 3 meter wall.
- Kunstenaar
- Karel Martens
- Serie
- No
- Oplage
- 1000
- Omvang
- 688
- ISBN
- 978946440025
- Verschijningsdatum
- 31.12.21
- Uitgever / Opdrachtgever
- Roma Publications
- Ontwerper(s)
- martens & martens (Amsterdam)
- Lithograaf
- nvt