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Articles and writers
The artists
Further information
Colophon
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Artists catalogue and paper samples
‘Paper takes flight’ is the title of the book and art catalogue that will be published on the occasion of the Holland Paper Biennial 2006, the international exhibition of paper art to be held from June 10 to September 10 in the Museum Rijswijk and the Museum of Apeldoorn / CODA. It is a real collector’s item for paper art enthusiasts.
The title of the book was inspired by the efforts of anthropologist and conservation specialist René Teijgeler to save libraries and book collections in Iraq from destruction. The editors have arranged a series of articles around the theme ‘paper and disaster’.
Articles and writers
Henk Porck and Bihanne Wassink describe a deliberate book burning that was arranged by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in collaboration with the fire brigade in The Hague in order to learn more about the way to treat books with fire damage. After a disaster has struck cardboard houses are put in place quickly and cheaply. Taco van Iersel and Elise van Dooren write about this new form of ‘disposable architecture’. Iraqi poet Salah Hasan describes his own flight without identity papers and introduces us to some of his poems. The Dutch Golden Age is well represented with three stories. Historian and journalist Roelof van Gelder is the first to open the personal and ship’s letters of Dutch sailors whose ships were taken by British pirates, four centuries after the fact. In the same era Dutch traders were transporting paper wrapped in so-called riemkappen (ream covers). Veronica van Verschuer tells the story of these paper wrappings, made of bulkier paper and carrying the mark of the paper mill that produced them. The story is based of the book by Henk Voorn and his collection of riemkappen that days have become true collector’s items. Frans Laurentius provides an analysis of the different seventeenth century paper formats and reveals the puzzling fact that collectors used to pay for the size of the paper rather than for the artist who made the picture. Koos Havelaar discusses the more recent history of airmail and its special types of paper. Protecting security paper is the subject of Karel Schel’s contribution. It gives an overview of the fight against counterfeiting through the centuries until the present day.
The artists
The catalogue part of ‘Paper takes flight’ shows the work - including a short description - of the 28 artists that have been invited by the Holland Paper Biennial to take part in the exhibition in Rijswijk and Apeldoorn. Paper samples of some of the artists have been included in the book.
- Luis Acosta (the Netherlands/Argentina), both museums
- Marjolijn van den Assem (the Netherlands), both museums
- Lucia Barata (Brazil), Museum Rijswijk
- Valerie Buess (Germany), Museum Rijswijk
- Kwang-young Chun (South Korea), both museums
- Jean-Claude Correia (France), Museum Rijswijk
- Mels Dees (the Netherlands), both museums
- Dominique De Beir (France), both museums
- Betty Friedman (United States), Museum of Apeldoorn (CODA)
- Claude Frossard (Switzerland), both museums
- John Gerard (Germany/U.S.), Museum of Apeldoorn (CODA)
- Manabu Hangai (Japan), both museums
- Sjef Henderickx (the Netherlands), Museum Rijswijk
- Eve Ingalls (United States), both museums
- Tomoko Ishida (Japan), both museums
- Rolf A. Kluenter (China/Germany), both museums
- Jae Ko (South Korea/U.S.), Museum Rijswijk
- Ayuk Kuperus (the Netherlands), both museums Miriam Londoño (the Netherlands/Colombia), both museums
- Karel Martens (the Netherlands), Museum of Apeldoorn (CODA)
- Lucille Moroni (France), Museum Rijswijk
- Pavlos (Greece/France), Museum of Apeldoorn (CODA)
- Margit Rijnaard (the Netherlands), Museum of Apeldoorn (CODA)
- Naoko Serino (Japan), Museum Rijswijk
- Ingrid Siliakus (the Netherlands), Museum Rijswijk
- Hans Jürgen Simon (Germany), both museums
- Marjolein van der Stoep (the Netherlands), Museum Rijswijk
- Matty Vroegop en
- Ed Schoonveld (the Netherlands), both museums.
Further information
‘Paper takes flight’ is published by Uitgeverij Compres in collaboration with Foundation Paper Manifestation ‘94, on the occasion of the Holland Paper Biennial 2006. Peter Gentenaar and Pat Torley compiled the texts; Loes Schepens made a design in which envelopes, letters, airmail and flight play a defining part. Linda Easter Fairwether Nash translated the contributions to English for this bilingual book and Arne Westerhof was the final editor. ‘Paper takes flight’ is the sixth in a series of Biennial books that have been published since 1996, following ‘Tactile Paper’ (1996), ‘Paper and Fire’ (1998), ‘Paper and Water’ (2000), ‘Timeless Paper’ (2002) and ‘Spirit of Paper’ (2004). ISBN 9073803071; Price € 59,95 .
Colophon
Paper takes flight
Publisher
Wim Findhammer Uitgeverij Compres i.a.w. Foundation Paper Manifestation '94
Compilation
Peter Gentenaar, Pat Torley
Editor-in-Chief
Arne Westerhof
Translation
Linda Fairwether Nash (Easter Fairwether) and Janey Tucker/Den Haag
Design
Loes Schepens (Eindeloos)
Paper
ModoVanGelder Amsterdam
Hard cover
Valentinoise mint wax coated, 110 gsm
Bührmann Ubbens Paper, Zutphen
Dust jackets
Reviva offset black and white, machine finished recyled from 100% used paper, TCF, 120 gsm
End sheets
Reviva color cyclamen, 100% recycled paper coloured, 130 gsm
Papyrus, Culemborg
Text block, thin sheets
Evanescent golden purple gloss, 68 gsm
Proost & Brandt, Diemen
Text block, pages 1 – 64
Hello Gloss white woodfree glazed mc (SAPPI quality), 90 gsm
Text block, pages 65 – 240
UPM Finesse bulky mat, extremely matt and high bulk (1:1)
quality mc (UPM quality), 90 gsm
Driem Paper, Zoetermeer
Ream wrapper
Conqueror cream, 80 gsm
Poem in Arabic
Colorit sky blue, 80 gsm
Order form for books
Ivoriet, 215 gsm
Printing
Kunstdrukkerij Mercurius Wormerveer
Printing envelopes
Koro Enveloppen Rotterdam
Binding
Jansenbinders Leiden
Fonts
Avance and Lucida
Edition
3000
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