San Serriffe, Amsterdam
Thursday February 9, 8-10pm
Book launch, screening, and virtual tour with Karel Martens, designer and co-editor Julie Peeters, Kunstverein München director Chris Fitzpatrick and co-curator Post Brothers, in conversation at 8.30pm
Motion is the seventh publication in the Companion series co-produced by Kunstverein München and Roma Publications. It is part of the eponymous exhibition by Dutch artist, graphic designer, and educator Karel Martens at Kunstverein München – spanning over fifty years of Martens' interdisciplinary activity, with a focus on his most recent work. The bulk of the content for the book comes from the video Not for Resale, a sequence of photographs from Martens' studio walls in Hoog Keppel in 2000. The videos Lost & Found (2004) and TOL (2008) are also included in the book.
The publication fuels a series of satellite events, focussing on different aspects of Martens' work. Before stopping by Paris, Vilnius, and New York, Karel Martens, Peeters, Fitzpatrick, and Post Brothers will pass through Amsterdam, where they will be discussing the publication, screening the video Not for Resale, and elaborating upon images of the exhibition by Johannes Schwartz.
Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.