Studio Serieus brengt edities uit

Eight Vases, Five Apples, Three Mushrooms,… The titles of Bert Huyghe’s new works don’t leave much to the imagination. What you see is what you get. Or as Huyghe, claiming a well-known internet-meme, labels it: “It ain’t much but it’s honest work.”

• ARTIST: Bert Huyghe
• TYPE: 10 color screenprint
• SPEC.: 300gr Arena Rough Fedrigoni
• EDITION: 20, signed & numbered
• PRINT DATE: Handprinted in December 2021

In the midst of the Covid-pandemic the artist decided to start at the beginning and paint everything. In an attempt to bring some order to this chaotic world Huyghe divides his brightly colored subjects among different canvases and lets them look loudly and proudly at viewers exclaiming: here we are now, contemplate us.

Ceylan’s sculptures and performances strike right at the core of what it is to be human and evoke deep, emotional responses. For Studio Serieus Dennis Ceylan made a first ever silkscreen edition depicting five nude torsos contorting in a sea of pink.

• ARTIST: Dennis Ceylan
• TYPE: 2 color screenprint
• SPEC.: 300gr Arena Rough Fedrigoni
• EDITION: 15, signed & numbered
• PRINT DATE: Handprinted in February 2022

“Stately, plumb…” This is how James Joyce’s early 20th century literary masterpiece ‘Ulysses’ opens. The same two words could function perfectly as a title for a text on the work of Dennis Ceylan. Stately meaning upright, standing up proudly. And plumb as in well-fed, ample.

When you encounter a work made by Ceylan these two words capture the initial impression perfectly: stately, plumb sculptures. But where Joyce uses these words to draw the reader into a difficult and hi-brow tour-de-force, the practice of Ceylan works in an almost primitive way.

When Eva Vermeiren is working, she is actually playing. When she's making decisions, she's doubting them. All the things she collects, she aims to redistribute again. Eva Vermeiren's artistic world is entirely hers and oozes a very personal aesthetic. The works are always built on a balanced scale between rules and improvisation. Very often Eva creates a stage upon which different esthetical actions can take place. Collage is one of Vermeiren's preferred media and for Studio Serieus she has made an edition of 25 different collages on a silkscreen.

• ARTIST: Eva Vermeiren
• TYPE: 2 color screenprint + collage, mixed media
• SPEC.: 300gr Arena Rough Fedrigoni
• EDITION: 25 unique pieces, signed + certificate
• PRINT DATE: Handprinted in May 2022

The main raster has been screen printed which serves as the background for different pieces of collage to walk on and off. Some of the snippets she collected many years ago have become dear pieces to her. Others just kind of wandered in at the last second and were greeted as welcomed foreign guests.

Vermeiren is a very avid theatergoer. In some way, her works can be seen as little arenas where all of her actions, the stuff she collects, her movements and ideas, and a bunch of coincidences take place and intertwine into one beautiful snapshot. When Eva Vermeiren is playing, she is working. When she's doubting, she's making decisions. By distributing, she collects.