Harmen Liemburg

Eindexamenexpositie 98 – Working process

Selected screenprinted sheets, presented as A1 size limited edition books

Screen to Screen: PPPPPP (Playful Pixels Performing Pure Printing Pleasure)
Graduation project Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Graphic design department 1994 – 1988.

Text Harmen Liemburg
Part of entry written for Questions Questions (2012), curated by Charlotte Cheetham (Manystuff)

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4×4

Title 4×4
Year 1997
Size 70 x 100 cm
Technique 2 colour screenprint
Imprint 20

Four x four letter words = sixteen words inspired by cars and the culture of auto-mobility. Initially, I was planning to make a booklet out of this, but after printing I decided to keep the sheets uncut.

Another key-piece, combining found materials with self-edited content, using screenprinting as a creative medium.

Made during and after visiting Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) with a group of Rietveld students and teachers (my first trip to the US), spring 1997.

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X-Change!

Title X-Change!
Year 1997
Size 70 x 100 cm
Technique 1 colour screenprint
Imprint 25

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Fig. 26

Fig. 26, Z, the last letter of the alfabet.

Contribution to a class project. Screenprinted adaptation of a W. Eugene Smith photograph: Burial at Sea from the U.S.S. Bunker Hill, Marshall Islands Campaign, 1944.

Beauty Lies

Title Beauty Lies
Year 1997
Size 70 x 100 cm
Technique 2 colour screenprint
Imprint 10

Overprint of two photographs I found in a Dutch newspaper (authors couldn’t be retreived): portrait of an elderly lady and a young girl.

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Het Mooiste

Title Het Mooiste (The Best… Has Yet To Come)
Year 1997
Size 70 x 100 cm
Technique 2 colour screenprint
Imprint 25

Print made for Rietveld Academie schoolproject on collections. Mine was about orange wrapping paper.

To Belong

Title To Belong
Year 1997
Size ± 40 x 60 cm
Technique 2 colour screenprint
Imprint 15

First print made with Kees Maas at Rietveld Academie.