The Turner Prize is named after J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) who was an innovative and controversial artist in his day, is now seen as one of the greatest British artists, and expressed a wish to establish a prize for young artists. Turner Contemporary is named after the artist for similar reasons; their work is inspired by Turner’s innovative and radical approach to art.
Every other year, the Prize leaves
Tate Britain and is presented at a venue outside London. Four of the most exciting artists working right now are shortlisted to win the prize based on an outstanding exhibition that has taken place in the previous year. The finalists include Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani.
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This is the show catalogue for the exhibition which ran from 28th November 2019 until 12 January 2020. Size is 235x160mm, portrait and is section sewn.
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It has a 4pp cover printed on Omnia 200gsm and a 96pp text, printed offset litho on our Marazion Ultra 115gsm, which is a bulky sheet and gives the publication a spine of 6mm,although as you can see from the below image it flows really nicely.
Marazion Ultra was chosen mainly because of it's matt flatness which would reproduce the artworks well without a glossiness which can often detract from the images. The combination of the Omnia and Marazion Ultra is a simple but effective choice of materials which works particularly well with both the pale and dark solid colours.
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It's not been possible to reproduce all the spreads in the publication, so there are just some of my favourites here. As you can see from the spread above, even when the images are very dark and saturated with CMYK, the detail has been retained.
For readers not familiar with Marazion Ultra, it's a fully coated paper but it really does have a dead flat MATT surface. There are many papers on the market which profess to be matt (and some which incorporate the word matt in the name, but aren't!) ...but this really is - and if you don't believe me, just ask for a sample!
Below image shows the neat 6mm spine and the sewn and glued sections. Print is by Kent based printer
Principal Colour and they have made a beautiful job of it.
The shortlisted artists are Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo, Tai Shan and Lawrence Abu Hamdan, The catalogue is published by Turner Contemporary and design is by
Lukecharles.
Posted by Justin Hobson 16.06.2021
Contents...
It has a 4pp cover printed on Omnia 200gsm and a 96pp text, printed offset litho on our Marazion Ultra 115gsm, which is a bulky sheet and gives the publication a spine of 6mm,although as you can see from the below image it flows really nicely.
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