Composite Journal #1/2013 Jan Kempenaers

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Composite Journal #1/2013 Jan KempenaersPublished in conjunction with Perimeter Editions, Composite Journal delves into the work and life of a single creative practitioner per issue, teasing out the artists practice and its underpinnings from a diverse series of vantages, positions and perspectives. The inaugural issue traces the oeuvre of Jan Kempenaers, famed for his Spomenik series capturing former Yugoslavian war monuments, his various books through Amsterdams Roma Publications and his

are used to create nine minutes of animated film

but then adds an element of design in which a series of horizontal images that follow each other could be read as rectangles that could be replaced by any other image or form of the same dimensions

the comically unresolved drama of our unnamed “hero” emerges from several distinct elements: photographs of generic but oddly familiar movie set locations around the city

48 Pages & 10 Cards

a collection of prints that the reader affixes to the edition themselves and 10 plates from A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters

everybody is a foreigner

11 x 180 cm

or even simply waits for a key moment

The artist chose the subjects

formal and symbolic strands and motifs

of shifting perspectives that are central to Frei's work

His drawings and paintings capture remembered images in a way that also conveys a sense of the transience of memory

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