Rahel Zoller – Placemats, 2023
Format: 35 × 25 cm
Pagecount: 42
Edition: 10
Print: Flexo Office Offset
Placemats — A book block of overprinted waste sheets. Serving suggestion: 42 pages for 7 dinners with 6 people each. An artist edition for ACRE studios, a space for artistic research and practice. Produced as part of BOOKS & OTHERS, a happening during a one month long residency, at ACRE in Berlin Kreuzberg.
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Always keep your old printing plates, clean and strip them, and you can reuse them for a vast array of different purposes.
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Setting up the Black and White Split-Fountain print.
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The pressure of the machine was initially insufficient to achieve a proper result while using thin 60gsm paper. So as often with Office Offset some, adjustments were required.
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Placemats in use at the happing at ACRE studios.
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The worn and torn Placements at the end of the evening.
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