Jobs from the past - Number 126

Regular followers of this blog will know that my first post of every month is a "job from the past" so that I can show some of the really good work from years gone by and this publication is from 2017.

Sophie Jung - Come Fresh Hell or Fresh High Water
November 29, 2017 – January 13, 2018

Blain|Southern is a contemporary art gallery with galleries in London and Berlin. It was started in September 2010 by Harry Blain and Graham Southern, who had sold their previous gallery, Haunch of Venison, to Christie's.

 

Sophie Jung was invited by Tom Morton for the second in a series of exhibitions, collectively titled “Lodger”, a new series of exhibitions at Blain|Southern, running concurrent to the exhibitions in the central space, the series expands Blain|Southern’s programme into new territories. “Jung is a storyteller,” says the gallery, “she weaves free-wheeling, deeply idiosyncratic, and sharply funny narratives, which draw on everything from pop culture to philosophy, the idlest of thoughts to the most heartfelt of convictions. Both objects and language are prone to slippage in this work. Form and content is always shifting shape"

 

This is the catalogue for the exhibition... 

Size of the publication is A5 (210x148mm) portrait. The cover is on Heaven 42 170gsm silk coated paper from Sappi and the text is printed on our Offenbach Bible 60gsm.

The text pages are digitally printed in just black, including some images.

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The text comprises 28pp on Offenbach Bible 60gsm plus 4pp inserts on Heaven 42 coated 115gsm as the image below:

The reproduction of the images on the Offenbach Bible 60gsm just in black, mono, is excellent as you can see from the image below.

With such lightweight materials, the thickness of the booklet is 2mm, but as you can see from the image below the spine is nice and neatly creased and folded...

The 28pp text on Offenbach Bible 60gsm is digitally printed on a Ricoh digital press and flops and folds superbly in the hand.

The excellent digital print (on this very lightweight 60gsm paper) is by Identity Print in Paddock Wood. Art direction and design is by Blain|Southern.

https://sophiejung.allyou.net/
https://www.blainsouthern.com/
http://www.identityprint.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 04.05.2020

Alex Dordoy - The Moss is Dreaming

Blain|Southern is a contemporary art gallery with galleries in London and Berlin. It was started in September 2010 by Harry Blain and Graham Southern, who had sold their previous gallery, Haunch of Venison, to Christie's.

 

Alex Dordoy was invited by Tom Morton for the first in a series of exhibitions, collectively titled “Lodger”, a new series of exhibitions at Blain|Southern, Running concurrent to the exhibitions in the central space, the series expands Blain|Southern’s programme into new territories. Alex Dordoy for his exhibition titled “The Moss is Dreaming” developed a new body of work exploring a central characteristic of 21st Century visual culture: the restlessness of the image, and the instability of the surfaces on which it manifests.

 

This is the catalogue for the exhibition which ended in November last year.   

This size of the catalogue is 210x148mm, portrait. It has a 4pp cover printed on Omnia white 200gsm with a 12pp text printed on Omnia 150gsm. The Omnia works superbly, tactile - lots of character but no loss of quality in the reproduction.

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A lovely feature is the use of white wire for the wire stitches (staples) - although  it's not immediately obvious why use white on the outside, but you can see why, when you see the centre spread - excellent attention to detail.

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Detail showing white wire on centre spread.

Printing is by Identity, based in Paddock Wood, Kent. The job is digitally printed using a Ricoh digital press.

Art direction and design is by Blain|Southern.

https://www.blainsouthern.com/
http://www.identityprint.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 15.01.2018

The Disasters of Everyday Life

BlainSouthern is a contemporary art gallery with galleries in London and Berlin. It was started in September 2010 by Harry Blain and Graham Southern, who had sold their previous gallery, Haunch of Venison, to Christie's.

For their first exhibition with Blain|Southern, Jake and Dinos Chapman expand on their career-long preoccupation with Francisco Goya’s series of etchings, The Disasters of War. The Disasters of Everyday Life presents, for the first time, their latest body of sculptural work in a dialogue with three full sets of Goya’s prints, each set substantially reworked in a different way by the Chapman brothers. You can read more about the exhibition here.

This is the invitation to the private view held in October. The front of the invitation is an image from the exhibition photographed by Prudence Cuming.

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The invitation is A5 (148x210mm), Landscape and is printed Offset Litho and hot foil blocked on one side. The invitation side, below, is printed in a cool grey solid and is hot foil blocked in metallic gunmetal foil.

Printing is by Identity, based in Paddock Wood, Kent and they have made a superb job of it - colour reproduction and the muted solid colours look superb - the hot foil blocking is perfectly executed (Identity are one of the few printers to have hot foil blocking facilities 'in-house')

The invitation is printed on our Omnia 320gsm and is duplexed (to 640gsm) making it over 1mm thick. The use of Omnia means that the image has reproduced faithfully, however the invitation still has an uncoated tactile feel. The solid grey on the reverse looks and feels great and of course, foiling looks great on Omnia as it has a high bulk and therefore settles into the sheet well.

https://www.blainsouthern.com/
http://www.identityprint.co.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 15.01.2018