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May 2023, Chaos in Hemel, Rampen op Aarde – etchings & mezzotint

expo#3 revolves around etchings and mezzotinto by four different artists. This time the subject is anything but easy to digest.

Jeroen Bisscheroux makes his own mezzotint prints as in the 17th century: for hours he worked the copper plates manually with a cleaver and then polished the surfaces that form the scene with a straightener. He found inspiration for this during his trip to Japan, where he spent six weeks as an artist in residence. There he visited the areas affected and devastated by the tsunami and the nuclear disaster of November 2011. Like ghostly reminders of bygone civilizations, the outlines of destroyed buildings emerge from the deep black of the prints.

Burkhardt Söll together with his son and grandson Paul and Manni du Bois-Reymond spent many hours 'en plein air' making their meticulous, detailed etchings. In the Gauertal, Montafon, these plates were made in direct confrontation with the vegetation. The scenes are intertwined with nightmarish impressions of a 16th century literary work by Giordano Bruno: The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast (Spaccio della bestia trionfante, 1584). Manuela du Bois-Reymond wrote texts for the series of 27 etchings.

The opening will take place in the studio of drukdrukpaint, Evertsenstraat 115, Leiden. Friday, April 28 from 4 p.m. we (Jeroen Bisscheroux, Paul du Bois-Reymond and Drukdrukpaint collective Burkhardt Söll, Lisanne Wepler, Manuela du Bois-Reymond, Gregor J.M. Weber) and wine will be waiting on the sun terrace in front of the studio.

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2-4 September 2022, expo#2: trees & ants by Wepler & Söll

The second exhibition is coming! From friday 2 to sunday 4 september we are showing monumental trees by Lisanne and tiny ants (that could be also monumental!) by Florian Söll.

An enormous pile of large forest ants in front of the Swedish holiday home confronted Florian Söll (1950) directly with the tingling and yet so structured world of these insects. Martial and sociable, monstrous and yet so familiar; the human eye needs time to approach this world. Florian Söll has expressed his fascination in exciting etchings, linocuts, drawings and paintings.

The prints by Lisanne Wepler (1980) are also made from direct observation. She portrays trees from her surroundings, such as the old, monumental beech at the Groenesteeg Cemetery in Leiden. Under the series name Our good neighbors - tree portraits, Lisanne shares her admiration for the trees in our urban living environment. Her etchings show the trees with all their signs of wind and weather as living sculptures.

The techniques used reveal different aspects: sometimes gnarled, bizarre shapes with varnish mou and drypoint, sometimes the world landscape of a tree bark with pure line etching.

drukdrukpaint donates 10% of all sales during the exhibition to the Bomenbond Rijnland.