Schablone Berlin - Carrie Moyer & Diana Puntar | Exhibition Feb. 3rd through March 11 | Samson Projects - Boston

Schablone Berlin

450 Harrison Avenue
Storefront 63
Boston, MA 02118
T 617 357 7177

Carrie Moyer & Diana Puntar
February 3 - March 11 www.samsonprojects.com/moyerpuntar.html

Gallery Hours:
Tuesdays to Saturday
11 to 5PM
& by appt.

Samson Projects presents

PUBLIC PROGRAM:

Schablone Berlin book launch & talk. Friday, February 24th

A slide talk by authors, Caroline Koebel & Kyle Schlesinger at 6:30 PM, repeated at 7:15 PM

Schablone Berlin is an artists’ book as well as a book of documentation, presenting stencil graffiti from the streets of Germany’s most international metropolis. The book consists of over 100 color photographs showing not only the graffiti, but also its placement within the confines of the city. The introduction examines the semiotic and performative aspects of stencils as a populist form of writing within the contexts of art history, media and urban anthropology. Post-Face by Dennis Tedlock.

Available from: Small Press Distribution http://www.spdbooks.org/ & Chax Press http://www.chax.org/
ISBN: 0-925904-52-X

"This art and text project by Caroline Koebel and Kyle Schlesinger is a loving drift through the streets of Berlin to examine and to be inspired by its raw, lively, lustful, sometimes esoteric stencil culture. Exquisitely photographed, this work plays in the in betweens of poetics and politics, the trivial and the insightful, the amusing and the disturbing, the immediate and the aloof. One way or another, this book will seduce you" --Critical Art Ensemble.

Kyle Schlesinger is a poet, scholar, book artist and proprietor of Cuneiform Press. He is completing his doctoral research on the intersection of print culture, poetry & textual studies in the Poetics Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He received his BA from Goddard, an experimental college in rural Vermont.

Caroline Koebel holds a BA in Film Studies from University of California, Berkeley and an MFA in Visual Arts from University of California, San Diego. She is also a professor at University at Buffalo the State University of New York in the Department of Media Study.