SIGNALE

Kick-off: PRINT PERFORMANCE WITH STEAMROLLER
Mon July 1, 2024, 12–18 h

As part of the collaborative experiment, students from both art universities embarked on a special artistic collaboration last academic year and worked together to create large-format printing blocks. These plates will be printed as part of a print performance at Herbert Bayer Platz in front of the MAERZ Gallery with the help of a street roller. The young artists will be supported by the company Held&Francke. The print performance, which marks the start of the SIGNALE graphics exhibition, will test the technical possibilities of large-format printing in an original way and at the same time transform the supposedly dusty print production into an impressive, performative art action. In December, part 2 of this collaboration between the printing workshops and their students will be shown at SPLACE at the University of Art and Design Linz, where the large-format prints created as part of the print performance will also be on display.

Exhibition opening in the MAERZ Gallery
Tue July 2, 2024 18–22 h

The presentation is a showcase of different perspectives on the artistic practice that emerges from the work in print workshops. The students' research-based approach and their exploration of the broad field of (printed) graphics is characterized by materiality and its principles. Accordingly, the range of graphic positions and their different approaches reflects both the ambivalence and self-image of this visual art practice:

Topics such as reproduction and distribution, collaboration and authorship, memory and storage, as well as communication and translation, form obvious potentials for those who work with or around print.

"Prints are highly individualized statements within the framework of strictly defined technical means; they embody a condition of modernity - the conflict between man and machine, the handmade and the replicated, the original and the copy."
(Field, Richard S. - Sentences on Printed Art; 1994)

The SIGNALE format is intended to offer students a networking platform where the relevance of printmaking in today's world can be discussed, knowledge can be exchanged and supposedly outdated techniques can be rediscovered.

The collaboration between the printing workshops is initiated and organised by Martin Bischof (relief and intaglio printing workshop at the University of Art and Design Linz) together with Renata Darabant (intaglio printing workshop at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna) and Julia Gutweniger (screen printing at the University of Art and Design Linz). The student projects were supervised by them in collaboration with Monika Pichler (screen printing, University of Art and Design Linz), Inga Hehn (lithography, University of Art and Design Linz) and Sabine Jelinek (cyanotype, University of Art and Design Linz), Kirsten Borchert (screen printing, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), Nobuhiko Numazaki ( relief printing and lithography, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), Magdalena Kreinecker (screen printing and intaglio,  Academy of Fine Arts Vienna). 

Participating students:
Christoph Bisenberger / Lera Entmayr / Sara Farfeleder / Çagla Gillis / Ayala Shoshana Guy / Marieluisa Lenglachner / Emilia Lichtenwagner / Chien-Yu Lin / Dean Maassen / Sarah Mühlbacher / Katya Ovechkina / Philip Paulus / Leonie Pirker / Elisabeth Süß / Julia Witzeneder