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Salon de Papier / Pale green / Skogen 23-04-26

Another great evening with @salondepapier , tonight at @skogen_masthuggsterrassen who both hosted the event at their space and were the guests of the evening telling the story of their practice and then uncovering the Shelf publishing. 

This is a possible library and book store that is part of ”Samarbetet” and will travel to places. 

Shelf publishing (or The shelf) will also be part of the Salon. 

Beautiful work @doma.doma.doma @sarahalfa and Johan, Klas and Joel at Skogen. 

Salon de papier is supported by Göteborgs Stad.

#salon de papier #zine #fanzine #artistic publishing #publishing as artistic practice #skogen #art

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Salon de papier // The Lagoon edition // Röhsska Museet 23-03-02

What a great evening! 

@salondepapier at @rohsska ✨✨✨

We had @emanuelcederqvist as guest and he presented his work of photography and book publishing. Amazing work and conversation.

#zine #fanzine #event #salon de papier #Röhsska museet #Emanuel cederqvist

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What we remember  // 2023 4 color riso-print 16 pages (printed on Munken Pure) Edition: 10

#drawing #zine #fanzine #art #artist publishing #riso #riso-print #risograph #pink

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Vague places - Termoral spaces // Workshop at HDK-Valand Steneby

Three days outside work with Design BA students from all three departments. The week started with collaborative work in small scale, with mixing materials and for the students to find a method to work together. Wednesday - Friday we worked outside, still in the groups, with full scale spatial work in various materials. The students had collected material in the beginning of the week som there was plenty of wood and fabric to work with. Intense days in the rain. Lots of laughter and hard work.  Truly great days.

Workshop setup:

You will need clothes for outdoor work, we’ll be outside regardless of weather.

Monday morning

● 09.00-10.00 Zoom

● Short presentation of MASU, the work for the week and presentation

of the workplace.

● Division into groups 6 (5) if from different departments

Monday afternoon and Tuesday

● Groups gather to build 10 joint sculptures with materials from their

respective department and area of interest.

● Relate to the theme Vague places and temporal spaces.

● The sculptures shall be max. 20 cm high.

● In addition to this, the group needs to gather lots of materials plus

assembly items and tools to build spatially on a 1:1 scale during

Wednesday afternoon, Thursday, and Friday. You can either gather

the material down at the site by the water or in connection in your

workshops.

Wednesday morning

● 09.00

● MASU is invited to your exhibition of all sculptures, all groups

together.

● All groups present the intention with their sculptures.

● The works are grouped in any way in relation to other people’s

sculptures, in any place down by the water.

● After the exhibition, each group selects three sculptures from the

entire exhibition.

● The three works are photographed or drawn in different spatial

conditions.

Wednesday afternoon, a process-oriented work on spatial understanding starts.

● The groups will build on a 1:1 scale down on the parking lot with the

materials you have collected.

● Bring materials for documentation.

● We will be outside, so you need to dress for the weather.

Thursday

● 09.00

● Continuous work on site

Friday

● 09.00

● Finishing work in the morning. Presentation, discussion, disassembly

and clearing site

#workshop #installation #art #design #steneby

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Sculptural prototyping in Varberga, Örebro. / 2023

In Örebro, Örebrobostäder (Öbo) are renovating a large part of the area Varberga. A new center with housing and public facilities is being built as well as renovations of many of the apartment buildings and the public and semi-public spaces around them.

In June 2022 we were invited by Öbo to participate in the process of developing a new green space that opens from the center towards the Varberga forest and recreational area. The green space is a form of park with spaces for activation as well as resting.

The park, the green path, is designed by landscape architecture firm DCL.13 and our role has been artistic project lead.

Over the year we have worked together with the developing team to find new ways of planning the space for informal meetings among residents of the area, activation for people of all ages as well as line of sight from the new center to the forest.

As part of the development, we have proposed a built somewhat un-programmed space, a floor with a sculptural roof, that can function as meeting place, stage, dancefloor etc

Over three days in March 2023 we have been in Varberga to prototype the structure together with participants from Örebro Skateförening, Örebro Konstskola, management and others.

We started on Friday morning with piles of wood (both used and new) and some tools and together we built a structure that functions as a spatial drawing where we, the participants and the residents in the area could think together and talk about size, height and material as well as how it can be used in the future.

Saturday, we finished the construction and on Sunday we disassembled it again leaving the site as we found it.

Three intense days that gave us lots of good thoughts and conversations on how to make this into a permanent piece next year.

#sculpture #structure #installation #wood #art #artistic practice #prototype #sketching #workshop #örebro #varberga #masu #collaboration

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POSTER SHOP  //. MATTIAS SHOP

New shop. Welcome Posters. Print-on-demand. Choose - order - receive in mail

-------> https://mattiasgunnarsson.bigcartel.com

#colors #painting #acrylics #acrylic painting #contemporary painting #non figurative #abstract #art #artist #poster #posters #poster shop #collage

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MASU_Forest // December 2022

New typeface made on site in the forest in Skene for the project (Material) Site Recordings. Our ForestLab is slowly expanding and new material layers are adding to the overall narrative. 

#typeface #type #font #forest #forest lab #publishing #art #landart

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BARA.DU BARA // 2022 // Mattias Gunnarsson

Published by SEITOUNG / Strandflat Editiones 16 pages (various sizes, hand cut) color print. Incudes 2 photographs + 1 original painting  Edition: 30

#zine #fanzine #art zine #artist book #artist publishing #seitoung #limited edition #collage #drawing #spray paint

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Salon de Papier / Yellow edition 2022-11-22

Salon de Papier is a space for sharing and discussion, a showcase of new and innovative work, and a spark for multi-disciplinary collaboration. Each event will feature a guest artist, publisher or curator, who will talk about their work and their inspirations. There will also be an informal ‘show and tell’ section, as well as opportunities for participants to trade zines and make donations to a communal zine library, which will be housed at Gathenhielmska Huset.

The project aims to reach artists, authors, designers & curators who are interested in self-publishing. Self-publishing, such as zine-making (the making and distribution of zines and artist publications), is a vital part of literary & artistic culture. There are several artists working within this field in Göteborg, however they are mostly working independently of each other and their work is reaching a limited audience. We hope to launch a new event to bring artists together, build a community, support collaboration & help participants reach new audiences.

The production and distribution of self-published artistic material such as zines, books, pamphlets, prints and artists books is quite often done in small editions as part of building community and to connect to an interested audience. The DIY part of the work makes the art of self published material accessible and possible for a big group of creators (anyone can make a zine!) and can serve as a platform for a great variety of artists, writers, photographers, poets etc to reach audiences and communities also outside of the commercial gallery and book publishers. The formats lend themselves well for the political, temporary and subversive as well as the initiated, personal and exploring expressions.

This time our invited guest was Mari Lagerquist who talked about her project Bibliotheket 2x2 which is a library and collection of books, at one time started in Mari’s studio and now being a nomadic project that is assembled in different places and events. Mari brought a beautiful selection of publications that she showed and arranged for participants to both look in and to reflect on. 

Salon de Papier is a collaborative project between Mattias Gunnarsson, DOMA, Sarah Alfarhan and Gathenhielmska huset in Gothenburg.

#zine #fanzine #yellow #event #art #artistic publishing #salon de papier #art salong

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Salon de Papier / Yellow edition zine 2022-11-15

Collaboration zine making with the organising group of Salon de Papier + invited guest Mari Lagerquist who also set the theme for the zine: organising / numbers we remember. We worked for some hours and this time we produced the full edition of 30 by hand instead of Indesign --> printer work. A5, 16 pages, various paper and printing techniques (collage, stamps, spray paint, drawing), edition: 30 (numbered)

#zine #zine making #salon de papier #art #art publishing #artistic publishing workshop #collage #spray paint #stamps #yellow #fanzine #artist book

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Materiella teckningar / Material drawings at Arvika konsthall

31/7 – 10/9 2022 with an open work process a week before opening where visitors could see the work grow, a music piece written and performed by Emanuel Blom at the opening and a finissage of the exhibition with a moderated talk with local politicians, the day before the Swedish election, about culture politics in Arvika.

The exhibition occupies two separate spaces and consists of three works, all part of our drawing practice:

Parasit / Parasite – A site specific installation out of wooden planks salvaged from the recycling depot (Mossebergs återvinning) painted black for a greater contrast to the space. The structure inhabits the larger of the two rooms of the exhibition space and reaches towards the ceiling and the second floor.

Mycel / Mycelium – A large collaborative drawing (9 x 1,5 meters) in black ink of a mycelium structure that grows over the paper with alterations in shapes, structure and density.

Månader / Months – Seven collages of paper pieces mounted directly on the wall. The pieces of paper comes from our Forest Lab in Skene, where it has been resting in layers of wood for nine months, allowing the forest to make marks.

From the presentation of the exhibition:

This exhibition is mainly about drawing; about traces on paper and in space.

It could perhaps be possible to imagine a landscape, one that is simultaneously internal and external, one that moves between and thru, holds together and dissolves.

This landscape is both vast and open where everyone has a place, as well as very very small as it grows in a slow movement underground, and however one approaches it is not possible to grasp it all at the same time. This landscape is a rhizome that has no real beginning and no real ending. There is no center nor a given periphery. Everything exists at the same time.

Ofcourse one can move thru it here, sometimes only in the mind and sometimes with one’s body. Each experience is unique.

We have chosen to explore this landscape thru drawing.

We explore drawing as material, trace and method. There is searching in the drawing practice, a way of slowly testing relations between lines, surfaces, densities and connections. In the explorative drawing we find a presence that liquifies time and the place, opening up for possibilities to co-exist, wait, participate or just watch.

The three separate works in the exhibition Materiella teckningar / Material drawings are all part of the same narrative, they stem from the same questions about the things that grow, co-exist and relate, as well as leaving traces, transform and decompose.

#exhibition #Arvika konsthall #drawing #mycelium #rhizome #collage #installation #sculpture

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Materiella teckningar / Material drawings at Arvika konsthall

Parasit / Parasite – A site specific installation out of wooden planks salvaged from the recycling depot (Mossebergs återvinning) painted black for a greater contrast to the space. The structure inhabits the larger of the two rooms of the exhibition space and reaches towards the ceiling and the second floor.

We had a slow process of drawing with wood in the space where each line is drawn in an ongoing conversation about sequence, rhythm and the spatial. The installation occupies the main floor and reaches up on to the balcony that offers visitors another view of the space. The structure is self-supported from the floor and up and sits as its own entity in the old baroque room careful not to touch the delicate walls and stucco details. Parasit / Parasite was a temporary site-specific structure that lived only at Arvika konsthall and returned to Mossebergs depot after the exhibition.

#installation #art #sculpture #exhibition #drawing #wood

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Materiella teckningar / Material drawings at Arvika konsthall

Mycel / Mycelium – A large collaborative drawing (9 x 1,5 meters) in black ink of a mycelium structure that grows over the paper with alterations in shapes, structure and density.

In the collaborative work with MASU we often find our process to be rhizomatic like a fungi mycelium and in the last couple of years we have also worked a lot in forests with our sprawling, spreading wooden structures. The material we build with and move around between sites in the ongoing project (Material) Site Recordings have also hosted several different fungi as they reside in places where things grow. The drawing Mycel / Mycelium comes out of a wish to work and move across the paper over time like mycelium, in an attempt to be the mycelium rather than to illustrate it.  

In the process of this work, we cut a 10 meter roll of drawing paper in half and worked on each half simultaneously. We decided on black ink in bottles and calligraphy tips as the tools. We have shared the rolls of paper and continued wherever there was space, connecting the different tracks, traces and patterns. The drawing exists within, but is not limited to, the limits of the paper, and could continue to grow in any direction.

The drawing is both a dialogue with our ongoing practice as well as its own work.

#drawing #ink #collaboration #mycelium #rhizome #art #exhibition

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Materiella teckningar / Material drawings at Arvika konsthall

Månader / Months – Seven site-specific collages of paper pieces mounted directly on the wall.

The pieces of paper comes from our ongoing project (Material) Site Recordings that is a nomadic sculpture / installation project. It has been moving between sites since 2018 and in September 2021 it moved to a forest by Hedgärdessjön in Skene where MASU now runs a Forest Lab, a collaborative studio. On the site is a stack of wooden laths that are the primary sculpture material of the project. In November 2021 we placed 7 large drawing / watercolor papers in the layers of wood, letting it rest over nine months to open for a collaborative drawing process together with weather, water, the forest and its various inhabitants. In July 2022 we had used material enough to reach the layers of paper that had been hidden. We harvested the papers, both smaller pieces and larger sheets.

Månader / Months are collages where we built new drawings from pieces that are marked, bruised and partly dissolved with marks from weather, fungi, pine needles and insects. The collages held a temporary constellation at the exhibition and will continue to be a part of the (Material) Site Recordings project.

In October, as we dismantle a sculpture at Rydals museum and return the laths to the forest, we will place new papers in the stack and start this part of the project over again.

#collage #drawing #art exhibition #paper