Wednesday, March 6, 2013

This is proof

Any proof readers out there?

Tonight I'll be wetransferring the final art work of a leaflet for the exhibition. There's no staff around to assist me at my office.

Here's the text. Please help me out, don't hesitate to comment, particularly if you find errors. 

It's not necessary that you know French, German and/or Swedish, I'll find native tongues for those three:

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RED PRINT ROOM 2012
MDF, foam board, sawn and milled walnut veneer, pine, linden and birch wood, wall paint, clear polypropylene, brass fittings, miniature posters, wallpaper adhesive.
Miniature Ply-Chair, Morrison. laminated wood, natural color, scale 1:6, 77x140x65 mm. (Jasper Morrison, 1989). Overall dimensions 662x432x542 mm


IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT
1/6, THE BLAME SERIES
FEEL BAD POSTERS
Size 600x800 mm
Edition of 35
2011

YOU ARE SO WRONG
2/6, THE BLAME SERIES
FEEL BAD POSTERS
Size 600x800 mm
Edition of 35
2011

YOU’RE TO BLAME
3/6, THE BLAME SERIES
FEEL BAD POSTERS
Not printed

YOU ARE WAY OUT OF LINE
4/6, THE BLAME SERIES
FEEL BAD POSTERS
Not printed

BLAME LAME BA BLA BLA BLA
5/6, THE BLAME SERIES
FEEL BAD POSTERS
Size 600x800 mm
Edition of 35
2011

DIALOGUE
6/6, THE BLAME SERIES
FEEL BAD POSTERS
Size 600x800 mm
Edition of 35
2011

NO YOU SHUT UP
A TELLING-OFF POSTER
Size 600x800 mm
Edition of 50
2012

TOUT EST DE TA FAUTE*
1/1, THE BLÂME SERIES
A FEEL BAD POSTER IN FRENCH
Size 500x700 mm
Edition of 50
2012

ALLES IST DEINE SCHULD*
1/1, THE SCHULD SERIES
A FEEL BAD POSTER IN GERMAN
Size 500x700 mm
Edition of 50
2012

ALLT ÄR DITT FEL*
1/1, THE KLANDER SERIES
A FEEL BAD POSTER IN SWEDISH
Size 500x700 mm
Edition of 50
2012

THIS IS TRUE
1/3 THE MATTER OF FACT SERIES
FEEL NOTHING POSTERS
Size 500x700 mm
Edition of 50
2012

THIS IS FALSE
2/3 THE MATTER OF FACT SERIES
FEEL NOTHING POSTERS
Size 500x700 mm
Edition of 50
2012

THIS IS NOT
3/3 THE MATTER OF FACT SERIES
FEEL NOTHING POSTERS
Size 500x700 mm
Edition of 50
2012

THIS IS ALL*
1/3 THE MATTER OF FACT SERIES II
FEEL NOTHING POSTERS
Size 500x700 mm
Edition of 50
2012

THIS IS THIS*
2/3 THE MATTER OF FACT SERIES II
FEEL NOTHING POSTERS
Size 500x700 mm
Edition of 50
2012

THIS IS YOU*
3/3 THE MATTER OF FACT SERIES II
FEEL NOTHING POSTERS
Size 500x700 mm
Edition of 50
2012

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Torbjörn Elensky:

It’s all your fault
John Carpenter’s cult movie They Live (1988) tells of how aliens secretly have invaded earth, and brainwashed humanity with an array of subliminal messages hidden beneath the ordinary, friendly publicity that surrounds us. In the movie a construction worker finds a pair of glasses that make him see through all the superficial messages in our everyday lives. Behind the pretty images, the encouraging phrases and the exhortations to enjoy life by buying more stuff a couple of very simple and straight messages can be found: Stay Asleep, No Imagination, Submit to Authority.
14 Red Prints are like a variation on the same theme: this is in clear text all we need to know.

This is true
Who could be better at spreading a lie than he who knows the truth? If you know what really matters, you can keep it to yourself, and make sure you spread a version that better suits your purposes. Based on your knowledge, you can manipulate the impression of reality, and ultimately reality itself. This is not an activity that is necessarily evil in itself. It may be useful to screen what comes to public attention, or how a certain problem is to be perceived. If you say it straight as it is, it can be misunderstood, and the consequences will be far worse of a misunderstood truth than of a constructive lie, which can be the basis for a continuing conversation about community, conversation conditions, which acts are desirable, and what is harmful in the long run.

This is false
But unfortunately, the reverse does not work – just because you know the lie you do not know where the truth is hiding. You see, the lie has such a wealth of form, it can say anything – at least as long as it is likely – and it can rebuild itself in layer upon layer of self confirming references. Truth can hang loosely in the air. It may be shocking, inappropriate, and, unlike the lie, also completely unlikely.

This is you, This is this, This is all
Lars Fuhre’s Red Prints are a superb tournament of the confident assertions, allegations and requests of propaganda and advertising. They hit it right on target because they are created by a man who knows how to convince. Who is better suited than he to also undermine the expressions of audacious arrogance?

This is not
Doubts are raised by allegations. Where nothing is said there is no uncertainty. Therefore every cocksure opinion is the carrier of its own opposite, for if it may be in one way, it may easily as well be in the opposite.

When certainty is unsecured it opens for comedy as well as concern. My first impulse when I see the Red Prints is that I start to smile to myself. Yes, this is just so, that’s exactly how the straight, undoubting assertions hit me in the stomach and head. It’s a nice feeling of recognition and insight. But then, when I look at them more closely, I see how scary they really are. Just as the subliminal posters in They Live. And I internalize the only sensible answer to all this, which I also have gotten off one of Lars Fuhre’s Red Prints:

No you shut up

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All posters, with year of production, are signed, numbered and stamped with the artist’s embossed monogram. Printed 2011/2012 on a Heidelberg SOLD offset printer from 1970 at Sibirien Lito, Stockholm. Typography: Replica by Lineto.

*This print is included in the Nationalmuseum Stockholm collection.

Model maker Ralf Hanicke. Film by Oskar Pernefeldt and Simon Jung Krestesen.

This leaflet was printed at Vitt Grafiska, Stockholm, in conjunction with the exhibition 14 RED PRINTS BY LARS FUHRE at Rönnells Antikvariat, Birger Jarlsgatan 32, Stockholm. March 16–April 6, 2013. Graphic design by Lars Fuhre. Photography Helena Björck. Paper Olin Rough High White 120 g, from Antalis.

14redprints.blogspot.se

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