AZB is taking part in this amazing exhibition initiated by Zoetrope Athens, with 5 zines from its archive: Blurring The Raster | Photobooks In Riso
Exhibition and Talks
Riso printing has become a popular choice for independent publishers, artists, and designers around the world. The technique is characterised by its imperfections, imprecision, and unpredictability, that is linked to the origin and the idiosyncratic function of the machine. Each riso print is thus unique, with shifts, smudges or odditie. Unlike traditional printing techniques, risography doesn't reproduce an image exactly but rather transcribes it differently. By using slightly or totally different colors, it creates alternative versions of the image, opening up immense possibilities to rethink the purpose of the printed image and its context.
Risography originated in Japan in the 1940s. It is a direct tone printing system that uses a stencil printer to create images with bright, fluorescent colors and textured rendering. The technique is eco-friendly, using vegetable oil-based inks that dry slowly by absorption into uncoated paper. Each ink uses its own drum, which is fed in and out of the machine as required, making it a low-cost method of producing large quantities of work using a limited number of colors.
The exhibition ‘Blurring The Raster | Photobooks In Riso’ presents 44 photobooks and zines from Greece and abroad, framed by a series of parallel talks, offering a glimpse into the diverse and creative possibilities and particularities of risograph printing while questioning the conventional notion and experience of the printed image.
Initiated by Zoetrope Athens in collaboration with Alice Laurichesse, Keda*Press, Dolce, Athens Zine Bibliotheque, Sleep On It Press, RNVP and Quintal Atelier from Paris, the library Herbarium Riso in Berlin and the nomadic collection of Zines of the Zone.
30.03.23 at 18:00 : Exhibition Opening 31.03.23 at 18:00 : Parallel talks, a discussion around Risography in Photobooks by Alice Laurichesse, Keda*Press, Dolce and Zines of the Zone.
Books: Augure I - Rodrigue de Ferluc, La dernière visite - Eliot Nasrallah, TAKO - Laia Bonastre, Dallol - Jeff Le Cardiet, The Girl You Lost To Cocaïne (2) - Maxime Muller, Arpenter - Alice Laurichesse, Greek dog days - Ilja Niederkirchner, Kuebiko - Evangelos Daskalakis, Island - Andrew O'Carroll, Blurry Territory - Georgios Plastok & Alfred Fabricius, Gestures of lover - Ellie English, Sometimes I take pictures of strangers too, but it's more difficult - Karina Golisová, Ten African shops - Rubén Montesinos, Routine - Alloprosalos nous / A*, Annie - Annie Tsevdomaria, The cemetery is a forest - Olga Vereli & Katerina Markoulaki, Metaphors - Dimitra Dede, Something I see through doors - Kati Akraio, The Rose - Nikos Nikolaidis, You are Mine now - Ioannis Karmaniolos, Strays- Folded City, Harry - Céline Guillerm & Alice Laurichesse, Domus Locked 2 - ΗΓΗ & Keda*Press, In Situ - Bertus Gressen, O tempo se fabrica - Bia Bittencourt, Kenned - Steven Dreux, Evan Lunven & Clément Le Page, Land of the setting sun - Miyuki Okuyama, Tatu Tita #1 - Jone Taberna, Miguel Orcal & Lorena Otero,Friture, Anarchie, Vandalisme - Anonymes, Plutati u Vremenu na zemljiI - Sergej Vutuc, 2 Niice - Gabe Gonzales, Around The Corner - Andrea Reza, OSOBb - Alina Gutkina, Tokyo Beach - Robert Blair, Place And - Suzanna Zak, Aún te Espero - Anaí Tirado, I wanna be sedated - Matt Plezier, Design Studies + Projections - Anne & Eugene Timerman, Semra For Life - Gloria Glitzer, Frumai - Yuri Manabe, Many dimensions of a soul people - Justin Samson, The basis of zero-point energy inventions - Benjamin Phelan, Untitled - Joseph Akel, Distribute with love - Dah Yee Noh
30-31/03/2023, 18:00-22:30 Zoetrope Kimolou 17, 11362, Kypseli, Athens
