Grotesque Faces Billboard

Billboard made by Agata Winksa, who exposed her screens using negative scraped off sheets of newsprint. Screenprinted with Kees Maas.

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April 4th, 2010
, Posted in Rietveld

Eindexamenexpositie 98

Title Eindexamenexpositie 98 (Graduation show)
Year 1998
Size H 1189 x W 841 mm
Technique 3 colour (CMY, no black) screenprint on 120 grams/m2 paper
Edition 250 total in 6 colour-variations

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June 26th, 1998
, Posted in Posters, Rietveld

Eindexamenexpositie 98 – Working process


Selected screenprinted sheets, presented as A1 size limited edition books

Screen to Screen: PPPPPP (Playful Pixels Performing Pure Printing Pleasure)
Graduation project Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Graphic design department 1994 – 1988.

Text Harmen Liemburg
Part of entry written for Questions Questions (2012), curated by Charlotte Cheetham (Manystuff)

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June 1st, 1998
, Posted in Rietveld

4×4

Title 4×4
Year 1997
Size 70 x 100 cm
Technique 2 colour screenprint
Imprint 20

Four x four letter words = sixteen words inspired by cars and the culture of auto-mobility. Initially, I was planning to make a booklet out of this, but after printing I decided to keep the sheets uncut.

Another key-piece, combining found materials with self-edited content, using screenprinting as a creative medium.

Made during and after visiting Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) with a group of Rietveld students and teachers (my first trip to the US), spring 1997.

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May 1st, 1997
, Posted in Rietveld

X-Change!

Title X-Change!
Year 1997
Size 70 x 100 cm
Technique 1 colour screenprint
Imprint 25

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April 1st, 1997
, Posted in Rietveld

Fig. 26

Fig. 26, Z, the last letter of the alfabet.

Contribution to a class project. Screenprinted adaptation of a W. Eugene Smith photograph: Burial at Sea from the U.S.S. Bunker Hill, Marshall Islands Campaign, 1944.

February 15th, 1997
, Posted in Rietveld

Beauty Lies

Title Beauty Lies
Year 1997
Size 70 x 100 cm
Technique 2 colour screenprint
Imprint 10

Overprint of two photographs I found in a Dutch newspaper (authors couldn’t be retreived): portrait of an elderly lady and a young girl.

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February 1st, 1997
, Posted in Rietveld

Het Mooiste

Title Het Mooiste (The Best… Has Yet To Come)
Year 1997
Size 70 x 100 cm
Technique 2 colour screenprint
Imprint 25

Print made for Rietveld Academie schoolproject on collections. Mine was about orange wrapping paper.

February 1st, 1997
, Posted in Rietveld

To Belong

Title To Belong
Year 1997
Size ± 40 x 60 cm
Technique 2 colour screenprint
Imprint 15

First print made with Kees Maas at Rietveld Academie.

January 15th, 1997
, Posted in Rietveld

Highway 1

Highway 1
Part of a Rietveld Academie student project, using found graphics (cardboard moving box issued by Allied Movers) as a bookcover.

December 16th, 1996
, Posted in Rietveld