BOEKS is a platform for showing books on the Bijloke site in Ghent. In turns, a book, its maker and publisher take center stage. Afterwards, remains stick around on walls, ceilings and floors. Along the way a BOEKS collection comes into being.
BOEKS celebrates printed matter, thick and thin, young and old, unique and serial, legible and illegible. Above all, BOEKS loves and highlights precisely those books that ask for it, because they are good, still unknown or fed up with the stacks or boxes they are confined to. BOEKS collaborates, contextualizes, supports and produces. The platform shows text, visual art and graphic design.
BOEKS is housed in the 15th-century convent corridor connecting the Kunstenbibliotheek with the STAM. BOEKS is een initiative of KASK & Conservatorium, in collaboration with Kunstenbibliotheek & Atelier Grafisch Ontwerp.
Tel: +32 (0)9 243 36 44
E-mail: boeks@hogent.be
Kunstenbibliotheek, Godshuizenlaan 2A, 9000 Gent, België
BOEKS 16 design by Slow Reading Club
BOEKS 15 design by Atelier Graphic Design & Quint Cobbaert
BOEKS 14 design by Atelier Graphic Design & Thomas Desmet
BOEKS 13 design by Atelier Graphic Design & Thomas Desmet
BOEKS 12 design by Atelier Graphic Design & Thomas Desmet
BOEKS 11 design by Atelier Graphic Design & Thomas Desmet
BOEKS 10 design by Atelier Graphic Design & Thomas Desmet
BOEKS 09 design by Atelier Graphic Design with Liselore D’hooge, Enid Stassyns & Thomas Desmet
BOEKS 08 design by Atelier Graphic Design with Liselore D’hooge, Enid Stassyns & Thomas Desmet
BOEKS 07 design by Michelle Daniëlse
BOEKS 06 design of book by Emma Vanhille & Thomas Desmet, scenography by Linh Dong
BOEKS 05 design by Myrthe Van Rompaey
BOEKS 04 design by Maud Gourdon & Gerard Herman
BOEKS 03 design by Joris De Rycke
BOEKS 02 design by Veerle Vervliet, Finn Waters, Aron Wouters & Mona Schrevens
BOEKS 01 design by Kahil Janssens
Identity & website by Arthur Haegeman
366
Jonathan Paepens
Three hundred and sixty-six auto-emotional portraits*
in drawing, book and exhibition
Exhibition: 21.05.2021 - 24.06.2021
Finissage & book launch: 24.06.2021, 18:00 - 23:00
Book your ticket for the closing event on 24 June here.
*hover over nose, mouth, mustache and eyes
and meet me 366 times
366, as portrait carousels in a corridor of chambers
In addition to coming together in book form, Paepens' 366 characters also seek to take on a new appearance tailored to the BOEKS space. This time, there is not a corridor through which to walk in a single direction, but an enfilade of six darkened chambers in which to linger. Each room will host a carousel of 61 portraits. That makes 366 encounters in all.
In the BOEKS space, take your time to allow Paepens' collection of portraits to sink in, and also to browse the book selection linked to this theme in the Kunstenbibliotheek.
You are welcome to visit from Friday 21 May through 24 June (Mon.-Thurs. 9:00 AM-6:00 PM/Fri. 9:00 AM-4:00 PM), as well as for the finissage and book launch, to be held at 6:00 PM on 24 June 2021.
366, as a collection of auto-emotional portrait drawings
366 is both emotional autoportrait and automated emotion. 366 is a profil en trois-quart times three hundred and sixty-six different days and states of mind. The missing quarter is filled in by the emotional charge of the moment. 366 is an intimate journal on automatic emotion – an almost daily, compulsive, obstinate and wilful repetition of the same outlined façade with nose, then eyes, and a moustache. It is sometimes also with hairdo, headgear, eyebrows or eyelashes, in all conceivable variants. The series is a conveyor-belt work of likewise transient emotions, from king to child and with all kinds of puppets and props in between. 366 as a theatre play
366 is a collection of self-portraits in which the gaze turns inward, in which unforeseen and unrecognizable mirror images arise, in which fantasy and emotion are sought, sometimes taking over. It is searching for the soul, seeing oneself as another, as neither mask nor mirror, as man and/or woman, Narcissus or Echo, drowning in self-love or shrivelling from heartbreak, no longer not weeping, with brush in the water or a dry needle. The paper sheets swell, absorbing the colour and the sentiment of the day.
“I am but a reflection of your life
In you and with you I am but one life.”
Freely translated from Antinous, des Kaisers Liebling: ein Seelengemälde aus dem Alterthume (1888) by Oscar Link
You can order the book including the original drawing via the website of Jonathan Paepens.
366, as an artist's book plus an original drawing
366 is the result of a four-year, almost daily drawing practice in which 366 different appearances of the self were created. The portraits on paper were created performatively and intuitively with the materials at hand, such as coloured pencil, marker, pen, paint, watercolour, make-up, glitter or food scraps. They leave transient traces of an introspective look, an emotion, a fantasy. The character stares at himself sideways and each time ends up with a different mood, manipulation, color. An elongated process that from now on can see itself 366 times bundled in one box. The unfolding of the box releases the same number of shades, reflections, props and techniques. Leaf through 366 and attend the scarlet theatrical play.
366, Jonathan Paepens, 2021
collection of 366 portrait drawings on paper
made from 2016 to 2020
edition of 366
on sale for €250
pre-sale reservation until 24 June for €190
exhibition finissage and book launch
Thursday 24 June, 6:00 PM
cardboard cassette box (51 x 34 x 5 cm) containing one original drawing (50 x 32.5 cm) and 365 high-quality reproduction prints (47 x 32.5 cm), with cover, certificate and text
graphic design by Michelle Daniëlse
printed by Cultura, Wetteren, BE
On the occasion of the book launch, Koi Persyn presented a performative lecture for which he wrote the text "An Anthology of Mediocre Metamorphoses". You can read it here.
366
Jonathan Paepens
Three hundred and sixty-six auto-emotional portraits*
in drawing, book and exhibition
Exhibition: 21.05.2021 - 24.06.2021
Finissage & book launch: 24.06.2021, 18:00 - 23:00
Book your ticket for the closing event on 24 June here.
*tap nose
366, as a collection of auto-emotional portrait drawings
366 is both emotional autoportrait and automated emotion. 366 is a profil en trois-quart times three hundred and sixty-six different days and states of mind. The missing quarter is filled in by the emotional charge of the moment. 366 is an intimate journal on automatic emotion – an almost daily, compulsive, obstinate and wilful repetition of the same outlined façade with nose, then eyes, and a moustache. It is sometimes also with hairdo, headgear, eyebrows or eyelashes, in all conceivable variants. The series is a conveyor-belt work of likewise transient emotions, from king to child and with all kinds of puppets and props in between. 366 as a theatre play
366 is a collection of self-portraits in which the gaze turns inward, in which unforeseen and unrecognizable mirror images arise, in which fantasy and emotion are sought, sometimes taking over. It is searching for the soul, seeing oneself as another, as neither mask nor mirror, as man and/or woman, Narcissus or Echo, drowning in self-love or shrivelling from heartbreak, no longer not weeping, with brush in the water or a dry needle. The paper sheets swell, absorbing the colour and the sentiment of the day.
“I am but a reflection of your life
In you and with you I am but one life.”
Freely translated from Antinous, des Kaisers Liebling: ein Seelengemälde aus dem Alterthume (1888) by Oscar Link
366, as an artist's book plus an original drawing
366 is the result of a four-year, almost daily drawing practice in which 366 different appearances of the self were created. The portraits on paper were created performatively and intuitively with the materials at hand, such as coloured pencil, marker, pen, paint, watercolour, make-up, glitter or food scraps. They leave transient traces of an introspective look, an emotion, a fantasy. The character stares at himself sideways and each time ends up with a different mood, manipulation, color. An elongated process that from now on can see itself 366 times bundled in one box. The unfolding of the box releases the same number of shades, reflections, props and techniques. Leaf through 366 and attend the scarlet theatrical play.
366, Jonathan Paepens, 2021
collection of 366 portrait drawings on paper
made from 2016 to 2020
edition of 366
on sale for €250
pre-sale reservation until 24 June for €190
exhibition finissage and book launch
Thursday 24 June, 6:00 PM
cardboard cassette box (51 x 34 x 5 cm) containing one original drawing (50 x 32.5 cm) and 365 high-quality reproduction prints (47 x 32.5 cm), with cover, certificate and text
graphic design by Michelle Daniëlse
printed by Cultura, Wetteren, BE
On the occasion of the book launch, Koi Persyn presented a performative lecture for which he wrote the text "An Anthology of Mediocre Metamorphoses". You can read it here.
You can order the book including the original drawing via the website of Jonathan Paepens.
366, as portrait carousels in a corridor of chambers
In addition to coming together in book form, Paepens' 366 characters also seek to take on a new appearance tailored to the BOEKS space. This time, there is not a corridor through which to walk in a single direction, but an enfilade of six darkened chambers in which to linger. Each room will host a carousel of 61 portraits. That makes 366 encounters in all.
In the BOEKS space, take your time to allow Paepens' collection of portraits to sink in, and also to browse the book selection linked to this theme in the Kunstenbibliotheek.
You are welcome to visit from Friday 21 May through 24 June (Mon.-Thurs. 9:00 AM-6:00 PM/Fri. 9:00 AM-4:00 PM), as well as for the finissage and book launch, to be held at 6:00 PM on 24 June 2021.