ドイツ・シュトゥットガルトの美術館Künstlerhaus Stuttgartで5月22日から始まる展覧会「()Print()」に《礫》を出品しています！ 以下、展覧会告知文より：
プリント（印刷）は名詞であり、動詞でもある。さあ、印刷機を立ち上げよう。
この空間の中核をなすのが「プリント・シャック（印刷の小屋）」です。これは、半分解体されたような外観の小屋で、中には印刷機と、印刷技術の発明以来、ワークショップで見られてきたような様々な印刷の副産物（エフェメラ）が収められています。板と板の隙間から光が漏れ出すこの小屋は、印刷原板の「分解図」のようであり、印刷を「啓蒙された公共空間の光源」とするロマン主義的な描写を、1:1の等身大スケールで具現化したものです。小屋の内部や、壁、床、柱、窓といったギャラリースペースの至る所には、過去250年間にわたるヨーロッパ内外の文化運動に焦点を当てた、ポスターやパンフレットの印刷の長い歴史から集められた多様なプリントが展示されています。その多くは農村発祥のものか、あるいは作者が田舎に避難して制作したものです。このプロジェクトが探求しようとしている仮説であり、グライズデール・アーツ（Grizedale Arts）の活動全体の根底にあるのは、「変化とは、都会の喧騒から離れた農村地域からこそ引き起こされるものだ」という考え方です。
()Print()
Initiated von Grizedale Arts & Adam Sutherland
Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
22.05.–29.11.2026
()Print() is a live print project, an open invitation to print new works using old technology, within a graphically rich atmosphere of polemical posters predominantly from rural settings, collectively offering insights into the complex politics of rurality in a way largely at odds with conventional representations. Unlike one-off artworks, posters are invariably multiple, and often anonymous – an untraceable format for political polemic and critique. In this spirit, viewers, readers, printers are encouraged to fill in the blanks and create their own name for the project from print-compatible words associated with the processes. DIY printing has been a mainstay of activity at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart from its inception in the tumultuous 1970s. Steeped in this atmosphere of ink, paper and untraceability, ()Print() pays tribute to the long, rough-and-tumble history of polemical printing since the late eighteenth century.
Print is a noun; print is verb; let’s start a printing press.
At the core of the atmosphere is the Print Shack, a partially deconstructed shed containing a printing press and the kind of ephemera found in print workshops since the invention of print, offering an “exploded view” of a printer’s atelier with light emanating from between the boards – a 1:1 scale instantiation of the romantic portrayal of printing as the light source of enlightened public space. Inside the shack and throughout the gallery space – on the walls, the floors, the pillars, the windows… – are multiple prints from the long history of poster and pamphlet printing, focusing on the cultural movements across Europe and beyond over the past 250 years, many of which are rural in origin or because their authors had taken refuge in the countryside. The conjecture that this project sets out to explore – and which informs the work of Grizedale Arts as a whole – is that it is from rural places that change is initiated, away from the intensity of urban life.
Strewn about the gallery – some pasted to walls or pillars, others dispersed on the floor – are prints selected by some dozen curators highlighting their personal collections and specific interests, intended not as a survey but more as a point of inspiration or provocation. This is a live analog project allowing the usership to create prints and post them, yielding untraceable comment in an age of total traceability. Over the course of the coming six months, this atmosphere of print will swell and morph through a regular series of printing workshops with trained printers.
()Print() is the first component of a broader, two-year collaboration and exchange program between Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and Grizedale Arts. Underpinning all Grizedale Arts programs over the past 30 years is the conviction that art is an integral, vital and embedded part of life, which entails connecting craft skills, collaborative production and putting the expertise of non-artists at centre stage. Lawson Park, a working farmhouse at Grizedale Arts, brings together artists and volunteers around farming, gardening, growing and cooking a wide range of food. Horticulture, hospitality and food production provide a useful model for working collaboratively. Grizedale Arts operates The Farmers Arms, a fully operational inn, pub, restaurant, as well as an in-house ceramics studio, in the Grizedale Forest of northern England. Art on the 1:1 scale.
Grizedale Arts has been a harbinger of the rural turn in contemporary artistic practice. Increasingly, art is openly turning away from the urban to the rural as its setting of predilection. Grizedale though has remained constant in asserting that art never truly embraced the urban, and remained – often for purely practical reasons – tethered to the rural.
Grizedale Arts is a one-of-a-kind art institution, one that works beyond the established structures of the contemporary art world, is light-footed in the fields, unbureaucratic and responsive to opportunities to connect with like-minded organisations and people all over the world. Come print with us!
Join us on May 21st at 7pm for the opening of ()Print() at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart.
()Print() is initiated by Grizedale Arts and Director Adam Sutherland.
Featuring prints from the collections of:
Ulrich Bernhardt Robert Eichmeyer Fernando García-Dory Hadrian Garrard Grizedale Arts Abel Holsborough Sean Ketteringham Künstlerhaus Stuttgart David Osbaldeston Tamarind Rossetti Sarah Staton Adam Sutherland Stephen Wright Linsey Young
