Lena Wurz

Recently MA Visual Arts: Book Arts Camberwell College of Arts and Artist-in Residence at London Centre for Book Arts // instagram.com/lenawurz // [email protected] //

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shelf exercises exhibited at Prep-Up, Rich Mix, London; Library Construction, Camberwell College of Arts Library; Pop Up Show, MA Book Arts & Printmaking studio space, Camberwell College of Arts; Room 216, residency, Camberwell College of Arts library shelf ‘Cantilibra‘, leadings and furniture printed by letterpress on utility papers dimensions variable 2017- The shelf stands for storage of ideas, concepts and combination of areas. All installations are elements of a bigger arrangement, taken out of some bigger construction and acting as a suggestion. What I physically construct in letterpress, not only from type, but also from furniture and rules, is the space that I transfer onto the prints. At the same time it is the depiction of the space I constructed.

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Compartment Days printed by letterpress on 90 gsm cartridge paper Edition of 12 +Thursday boy copy +archive copy +artist‘s proof 148 mm x 105 mm 2017 A seemingly misprinted calendar and the story of a boy only visible on Thursdays. Elements of the calendar‘s fixed structure are jumping in and out of focus, together with Thursday boy. Part of AMBruno [sic] project.

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Frei Otto. Thinking by Modeling. ZKM Center for Art and Media Archive Shelves, Workbench Tables, Grid Table If you were to take exhibition display structures out of exhibition spaces what would they look like? Would you take the whole structure or part of it and what could they be used for? digital print on 50 gsm bible paper each 148 mm x 105 mm 2017

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Introducing: exhibited at Camberwell College of Arts library utility papers, plywood, MDF on cardboard 42 cm x 29.7 cm 2017

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_ _ _ at Press, Print, Pop Up, one night only exhibition of MA Visual Arts: Printmaking and Book Arts 16/11/16 plywood, perspex, etching dimensions variable 2016

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,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, -line out_ - installed on a table at MA Visual Arts Interim Summer Show, possibility to take apart and rearrange elements in a different surrounding letterpress leadings printed on card, pergamon paper, bible paper, canvas; tapes dimensions variable 2016

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propositions of folding exhibited at Chelsea Old Library on the occasion of Folds and Foldings drawing on tracing paper, acetate digital print on acetate on MDF board each 29.7 cm x 22 cm 2016

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img inbedsidebooks (large) and img inbedsidebooks (small) displayed with inbedsidebooks (3 posts ago) at Liverpool Book Art 2016 large: digital print on 90 gsm paper 29.7 cm x 21 cm 2016 small: hand drawn, pen on 90 gsm paper 13 cm x 7 cm 2016

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* 80 gsm paper, asphalt spray, tape, 3 mm greyboard when closed 26 cm x 11 cm 2016

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Raum book installation developed at a 1 week residency Responding to Space at Raum Gallery space, digital print on different thicknesses of paper, transparent film, 600gsm board 2016 Read about our experience here

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lay_out at Ink & Bind 2, another one night only exhibition of MA Visual Arts: Printmaking and Book Arts 23/03/16 digital print on 200 gsm, newsprint, foam board 2016 I’m walking and I don’t know where the bus stop is There is noone waiting with me, but I know the bus will come and pick me Up and bring me Home I want to say, but I know it won’t. I should be home already and when it rings I open There was not only one bus to take, I will arrive anyway, just a bit later And I will have my home and another one in addition and one next to me. With a beautiful doorway inbetween

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inbedsidebooks plexiglas, letterpress, collected photos, copied and scanned on 80 gsm paper, bible paper, stapled open edition 21 cm x 14.8 cm 2015-2016 This movable is part of the project inbedsidebooks about nictophobia, the fear of darkness, and the mental and architectural space around oneself when falling asleep. The included QR code serves as a possibility of (self-) therapy giving access to a Pop-up-PDF to download and print anywhere. The folded A4 format of the printed movable connects to this idea of approachability. The magazine is accompanied by perforated cards that can be divided into bookmarks suggesting having pages of a book rather than a screen between one’s fingers before switching off the bedside lamp.

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Fit Frame into Content at Ink & Bind, a one night only exhibition of MA Visual Arts: Printmaking and Book Arts 29/11/15 materials: approachable skin ply, MDF, 80gsm paper copied and printed on digitally ‘up to A2 please’, 2015

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Round 1 submission for fount magazine’s first issue »plant a mountain« spring 2016 You can take part in round 2 until 29/02/16 in which you react to round I’s submissions, click here - - -> http://fount-magazine.com/ I'm walking and I don't know where the bus stop is There is noone waiting with me, but I know the bus will come and pick me Up and bring me Home I want to say, but I know it won't. I should be home already and when it rings I open There was not only one bus to take, I will arrive anyway, just a bit later And I will have my home and another one in addition and one next to me. With a beautiful doorway inbetween

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Fit Frame into Content work in progress Sept 2015 - December 2015

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Raumstempel (Room stamp) for Bookloop exhibition at Camberwell College of Arts’ library 23/11/15 - 03/12/15 materials: digital print on tracing paper various dimensions (A4, 8 cm x 6 cm, 8 cm x 6 cm x 4 cm, 17 cm x 8 cm) on top of and underneath shelves of a vitrine, 2015

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The multiple lives of a blank book is a cross-cultural tale of bookness, blankness and multiplicity, bringing the cinematic genre of documentary fiction to the printed page.

50 contributors were provided with a blank book to use as a symbol, tool or prop for conducting and documenting experimental enactments. The resulting story – a sequence of deeds, episodes, tableaus and vignettes – seeks to reveal as much about the zeitgeist as it does about the book.

Over 200 photographs are presented alongside texts including an essay on blank books encompassing histories of book arts, conceptual art and cinema by Federico Antonini, notes on the role of documentation in contemporary publishing by Darius Ou Dahao, reflections on the Philippine’s counterfeit textbook market by Clara Lobregat Balaguer, tips for hiding valuables in books by Per Törnberg, a manifesto for elevating graphic design by Masaki Miwa, and a new poem by John Freeman.

Published in parallel with But now space was part of the object¹ (Zyxt and Booksfromthefuture, 2015).

Contributors:

Luigi Amato, Federico Antonini, Joana Chicau, Hyunho Choi, Cecilia Denti, Matheus de Paula, Neil Donnelly, Rafaela Drazic, Spassky Fischer, John Freeman, Simon Goode and Ira Yonemura, Luana Graciano, Kristian Henson, Thomas Hervé, David Horvitz, Helge Hjorth Bentsen, Eric Hu, Hirofumi Isoya, River Jukes-Hudson, Tomoko Kawai, Ayse Koklu, Sean Kuhnke, Marie Lécrivain, Jen Lee, Clara Lobregat Balaguer, Corbin Mahieu, Claude Marzotto, Esa Matinvesi, Rita Matos, Kevin McCaughey, Niko Mihaljevic, Masaki Miwa, Jangs Müller, Jan Novák, Jozef Ondrik, Darius Ou Dahao, Pimeriko, Kasper Pyndt, GaEun Ryu, Ryo Shimizu, Soji Shimizu, Ying Tong Tan, Per Törnberg, Joseph Townshend, Risa Tsunegi, Ghazaal Vojdani, Seiko Watanabe, Lena Wurz, Makoto Yamada, Nobuo Yoda

Editors: Yvan Martinez and Joshua Trees with Krister Olsson

Design: Joana Chicau, Cecilia Denti, Matheus de Paula, Luana Graciano, Yvan Martinez, Claude Marzotto, Krister Olsson, Kevin McCaughey, GaEun Ryu, Joshua Trees, Lena Wurz

Print on demand 292 pages 107.95mm x 174.752mm (4.25 x 6.88 inches) Softcover English