Book as a souvenir from the exhibition PRINT @ WOW-Amsterdam 2015. PRINT is a cross-disciplinary exhibition featuring artists who are fascinated by work on paper. It is a (broad) presentation and at the same time an inquiry into the use of print and digital techniques in different media.
Visual artist Sigrid Calon was asked to curate this project at WOW and to give it a distinct shape and content. Inspired by the beauty and playfulness of the WOW staircase (the Vertical Gallery), she created compartments for various artists but also arts organizations. Calon stresses the significance of these, each with its own specialism and visual language. With most she has a special connection. Printer Knust from Nijmegen, for instance, or Grafisch Atelier Daglicht with whom she fell in love. Her first book was published through the Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. In addition, she invited Whatspace from Tilburg as well as PrintRoom from Rotterdam and Amsterdam’s Grafisch Atelier (AGA), incidentally housed right next to WOW Amsterdam. Apart from manual work involving printing and pasting (such as silk-screen print, etching, RISO and collage), experiments will take place with digital print using industrial machinery from Fuji and Mimaki. - WOW-Amsterdam