Unwrapping the new San Serriffe WRAPPING PAPER by Riet Wijnen
made with Riet Wijnen's edition Sixteen Conversations on Abstraction: Tool One (Template Ruler 1-5)
Sunday December 18, 4pm
Our new wrapping paper has been made by making use of a set of template rulers, which are part of Riet Wijnen’s edition ‘Sixteen Conversations on Abstraction: Tool One (Template Ruler 1-5)’. The wrapping paper has been offset printed with Joos Wiersinga, and the drawings and other experiments have been executed directly on the offset plates used in the printing process.
The edition ‘Sixteen Conversations on Abstraction: Tool One (Template Ruler 1-5)’ consists of a set of five template rulers designed by five artists and graphic designers: Dafne Boggeri, Linda van Deursen, Mandy El-Sayegh, Ima-Abasi Okon and Haegue Yang, which are collected in a handmade etui.
Wijnen uses the template ruler in her practice as a tool to create type designs that balance between being abstract forms and readable letters, these designs she applies in her woodcuts and other sculptural works. She is interested in the template ruler as a tool that slows down the act of writing: words fall apart into letters, and letters become forms rather than meaning. Here the act of writing becomes a reflection on language itself, language being an abstract construct that we often inhabit as if it is a part of us rather than seeing it as a tool that we use.