Katrien De Blauwer: Old Sweater Gets New Uses
About The Book
This is a story of three houses, three women and three bedrooms. The houses are located on the same street.
At my parents house I have a separate bedroom with a big cupboard.
At my grandmother’s house, I share the bed with her.
At the neighbors there are two rooms: one big and one small. Sometimes we sleep in the same bed.
I have a recurring dream: I can’t clean up my room at my parents house, nor can I find my clothes. They must be in one of the three bedrooms. Katrien De Blauwer
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About The Artist
Katrien De Blauwer was born in 1969 in the small provincial town of Ronse in Belgium. After a troubled childhood, she moved to Ghent at a young age to study painting. Later De Blauwer attended the Royal Academy of Antwerp to study fashion. Although she would never finish her fashion studies, it was at that time that De Blauwer made her first collage books; studies and mood boards for fashion collections. These ‘notebooks’, as she would later call them and which she keeps to this day, are filled with sketches, image and text fragments and quotes taken from books, newspapers and magazines. They bring together various influences from literature, art, music, fashion, cinema, etc., which ultimately permeate her artistic work.
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About The Publisher
Libraryman, founded in 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden by Tony Cederteg, produces and publishes contemporary photobooks by initiating a preserving liaison with artistic perceptions from varied paths. No intrusion of prevailing trends, Libraryman embraces its titles as intimate, ageless and prolonged poems – drawing inspiration from concise printed matters, unspoken language and an immense romanticism for the vocation.
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Specifics
Katrien De Blauwer: Old Sweater Gets New Uses | Libraryman | Contains a text written by musician and singer Shirley Manson (b. 1966, Scottish). 20,7 x 25,3 cm. 96 pages with 73 color plates. Offset printed paperbound hardcover. Linen thread bound. Natural headband. 2 cover variations with tip-in images and paper colors. Link.
