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upcoming presentations

September 20 th
Mosquitoes, Elephants, Mountains & Molehills
by Bart de Baets

Presentation of the second issue of Mosquitoes, Elephants, Mountains & Molehills .

Bookpresentation and opening exhibition September 20 th, 13:00h

exhibition:
Saturday 20, 27 September
Sunday 21, 28 September
Open from 13:00 – 18:00

Location:
Onomatopee Projectspace
Kanaalstraat 8
5611 CT Eindhoven

September 25th - 28th
Artelibro Art Book Festival
Bologna, Italy

Location:
Palazzo Re Enzo e del Podestà – Piazza Nettuno
Stand H
Thursday, 25th from 7.00 p.m. to 10.00 p.m.
Friday 26th, Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th
from 10.30 a.m. to 9.00 p.m.

18 - 26 October 2008
Dutch design week 2008
Onomatopee program

Lift off 2008, 22 - 26 October
the truth of basiscs, resetting the history of living between four walls.

With.:
Gabriel Lester, Daniera ter Haar & Christoph Brach, Esther Stocker, Krijn Christiaansen & Cathelijne Montens, IJm studio, Thomas Bakker, Tejo Remy & Rene Veenhuizen, Sander Mulder, Anthony Kleinepier & TTTVO, Maurer United Architects and Bob Copray.

Location:
Emmasingel 7, 5611 AZ Eindhoven.
open: 22 - 26 October, 13:00-22:00.

18 - 26 October 2008
SLLD Delights
by Sofie Lachaert
& Luc d’hanis

A solo-exhibition in which Sofie Lachaert & Luc d'Hanis will create a mise-en-scène with an anamorphosis of precious objects, with reflections, with kaleidoscopic images. Transformations of reality.

Location:
Onomatopee projectspace
kanaalstraat 8, 5611 CT Eindhoven
open: 18 - 26 October, 13:00- 22:00

18 - 26 October 2008
Kapital K
A CLASSLESS CHARACTER

Is it still possible to produce a character with universal acceoptance or can you only prescribe one? Can different language systems exist in a plural manner or are we stuck in a fundamental unintelligibility?

Location:
Onomatopee projectspace
kanaalstraat 8, 5611 CT Eindhoven
open: 18 - 26 October, 13:00- 22:00

8th November 2008, Cultural night Eindhoven
Three Ideophones
with: Goodiepal, Lucky Kitchen & Joerg Piringer

Thinking beyond and inspired by Dick Raaijmakers ideophone, Onomatopee states that multidisciplinary is a unity, able to be displayed as one. Three Ideophones will be a night with installations and performances. Onomatopee will publish a box with 3 picturediscs for this exhibition.

Location:
Onomatopee projectspace
kanaalstraat 8, 5611 CT Eindhoven
open: 18 t/m 26 oktober, 13:00- 22:00

Coming in November
Gunshot Architecture
An installation
by Justin Bennet

Mapping urban space and its architecture through the sound of a gunshot, the method whereby Justin Bennet is currently working, not only entails numerous domains of expression. With this piece of work the current culture of fear will be brought back to actual measures. Even more so, our abdomen will be repaired in favour of our mental reach. Sound and vision transpose a physic space and illustrate an imaginary space.

An exhibition of FILTER, Onomatopee and P40 in Hamburg, Germany. Curated by Freek Lomme and Kerstin Niemann.

Coming in December
Warren Neidich solo show

More info soon

news

OMP 28
Mosquitoes, Elephants, Mountains & Molehills
by Bart de Baets
ISBN: 978-90-78454-20-5

In the second issue of Mosquitoes, Elephants, Mountains & Molehills Bart de Baets continues to bombard us with his fascination for trivial information. It's a collection of casually written short stories, observations, lists and rumors, starring family, friends and lovers, the dead and the living, the gorgeous and the not so gorgeous. And though it's hard to tell the difference between what's fiction and what's fact, it's clear the author is not afraid to share his private life and his fascination for what is known as 'bad taste'. Although the content sometimes seems shallow, unimportant almost, it reads as if one is peeping into another person's diary. Don't we all just crave for gossip in the end?
Download the pressrelease here (pdf 552 kb)

Bookpresentation and opening exhibition:
September 20 th, 13:00h

Exhibition:
Saturday 20, 27 September
Sunday 21, 28 September
Open from 13:00 – 18:00

Location:
Onomatopee Projectspace
Kanaalstraat 8
5611 CT Eindhoven

Dutch Design Week 2008
Onomatopee program

OMP 20 / part of the DDW 2008 program
Kapital K
A CLASSLESS CHARACTER
ISBN: 978-90-78454-22-9

Language is always altering since it's subjected to many influences like technology, recognizable in MSN slang, multicultural influences, like the Moroccan rif (الريف) slang that is entering our Dutch standard language and so forth. How can we connect the immaterial meaning to the material expression in a way suiting our communication?

‘Man does make his own history, but not under self-chosen measurements’ and ‘ Fight for a classless society’ are well known slogans of Karl Marx. He revised our daily perception of labour within an economic system and focussed on an international system of equality by balancing economy and production. Eventually, what we need to consider is our work ethic. In the current globalising timeframe we still search for balance between economy and work.

When graphic designers and typographers use language without rethinking its limitations, then they operate as alienated reproducers within a system of cultural (re) production.

Is it still possible to produce a character with universal acceoptance or can you only prescribe one? Can different language systems exist in a plural manner or are we stuck in a fundamental unintelligibility?

Curated by Freek Lomme, Eric de Haas, Remco van Bladel
and Linda Arts.

Presentation of K's produced in workshops at Graphical workplace Daglicht:
www.grafisch-atelier-daglicht.nl

Location:
Onomatopee Projectspace
Kanaalstraat 8
5611 CT Eindhoven

OPEN CALL FOR KAPITAL K
A CLASSLESS CHARACTER

Onomatopee, in collaboration with Graphic Workplace Daglicht, sends out this open call to ask graphic designers / type designers worldwide to rethink their usage of the language system and to produce: One classless K!
which could be a typeface/symbol/other medium

A book with a selection of the submitted material along with an exhibition with all the KAPITAL K works will be presented during the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, from 18 until 26 October 2008.
Download the complete Kapital K projectdespription
here (pdf 312 kb)

For more info contact us.

OMP 22 / part of the DDW 2008 program
SLLD Delights
by Sofie Lachaert & Luc d’hanis
ISBN: 978-90-78454-24-3

With their installations, furniture and objects Flemish artists Sofie Lachaert and Luc d’Hanis explore the borderline between design and the visual arts. They work in a pure, minimalist style. Through small, subtle interventions they give everyday objects a new significance, an unexpected beauty. Discarded coins, forgotten objects, worthless furniture, they all take on a new life, become useful again. They create a slightly surrealistic, parallel world where two ordinary chairs are grown together, where there is a place for silver chip forks, unusual crystal bottles, silver seed.

For the Designweek 2008 Eindhoven (NL) they have the exhibition space of Onomatopee at their disposal. Visitors are confronted with literal and figurative distortions of reality. In a mise-en-scène with an anamorphosis of precious objects, with reflections, with kaleidoscopic images. Transformations of reality. The real meaning, the real image veiled, turned around, disguised. Spectator becomes participant.

For this installation Lachaert & d'Hanis will make a number of 'looking' accessories, polished tubular appliances, a giant kaleidoscope, a silver magnifying glass. Arranged like a life size representation of a still life, wunderkammer, show case.

Location:
Onomatopee Projectspace
Kanaalstraat 8
5611 CT Eindhoven

OMP 26 / part of the DDW 2008 program
Lift off 08
the truth of basiscs,
resetting the history of living between four walls
ISBN: 978-90-78454-25-0

With:
Gabriel Lester, Daniera ter Haar & Christoph Brach, Esther Stocker, Krijn Christiaansen & Cathelijne Montens, IJm studio, Thomas Bakker, Tejo Remy & Rene Veenhuizen, Sander Mulder, Anthony Kleinepier & TTTVO, Maurer United Architects and Bob Copray.

The truth of basics advances that our interior is mainly influenced by our cultural tradition, closely related to our technical tradition. These two conceptions continue to live on rather firmly, not only because of commercial interest, but also because of insecurity of the unknown.Departing from architecture, keeping in mind the four walls as a base, we propose to enhance a new notion of our interior. From an artistic point of view, we want to consider the consequences of the sphere of the installation, the totality of the scene, when creating an interior.

Curated by Freek Lomme and Dave Keune

Opening: 22nd October, 20:00 - 22:30
Free entrance

Location
Emmasingel 7, 5611 AZ Eindhoven
(opposite to The Design Academy)

Open:
22 October 20:00 - 22:30
23, 24 October 11:00 - 22:00 hours
25, 26 October 11.00 - 18.00 hours