Pist Protta 89
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Jesper Fabricius, Åse Eg Jørgensen, Jesper Rasmussen (Editors)
Description
Someone will probably consider the new Pist Protta 89 a perfect example of the zeitgeist: It seems unusually design-elitist and delicious, while at the same time being devoid of content. There is basically nothing but blank paper, which is also full of holes and absences.
But we have no doubt that, in all its simplicity, it appeals to the general population. Because there are no agreed-upon, intellectualizing texts, and it can all be experienced here and now with a pair of ordinary eyes in all its concrete paper tactility.
In addition, the magazine can be read equally well on one side as the other, there is nothing that is up or down, it is very easy to deal with.
We have sought out the printer, where we have found old, used-up punching tools in the scrap box, which we have revitalized in a new artistic context. Perhaps some of the die-cuts have previously been used for well-known and important works of art, we do not know, but now they appear here again in a completely new role, that of the art journal. It's sustainable recycling!
It is actually also a counterpart to one of our old issues, Pist Protta 24 from 1994, where we explored the printer's set box and used all the typographic accessories in the form of lines, frames, borders and vignettes for a graphic artwork in his own right.
Although the new Pist Protta 89 is quite empty, because we have endeavored to completely avoid printing ink, space has nevertheless been found for a single printed image. There really isn't much to say about it, other than that it manifests a proud moment in the history of the Danish foreign service that no one wants to remember anymore.
And then we must not fail to note that Pist Protta turns 40 here in 2021, and the new Pist Protta 89 is thus a delicious appetizer for the big anniversary publication, Pist Protta 90, which is just around the corner.
Publisher
Space Poetry
Subject
Photography, paper, paper cuts, zine, Danish art, conceptual art
Extent
26 x 30 cm. 42 pages/21 sheets.
Style
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Material
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Technique
Die-cut.
Date
2021
Recommended Citation
Space Poetry, "Pist Protta 89" (2021). Rollins College Book Arts Collection. 74.
https://scholarship.rollins.edu/book_arts/74
Other Information
For more information, visit https://www.spacepoetry.dk/vare/pist-protta-89/.