Throughout the last weeks of December we present a mini-exhibition with publications made by kids during the Page of Possibilities workshops in 2021. 

The Page of Possibilities workshops introduced children (ages 4-12) in a playful manner to the practice of self-publishing. They discovered the colourful and creative world of artist books and learned how to make their own small publication.

Page of Possibilities was inspired by the pedagogics of Célestin Freinet, who started the l’École Moderne in France in 1947. In his modern schools the emphasis was on children-led education: a printing press was placed in the middle of the school and children shared their experiences and thoughts via self-made books and pamphlets. 

The works will be showcased in the window of our bookshop at Boekhorststraat 126 until 7 January 2022. You can pass by to view them from the street whenever you like.

We are happy to invite you to an afternoon launch celebrating the new book ”Koen Taselaar. Rollable Ramblings.”

During the launch Taselaar will also present a special edition commissioned by Page Not Found. Discover this jacquard-woven feline story, wear it as a bookmark, use it as a scarf or wrap it around your whiskers. Our favorite gift idea for this season!

The work of Koen Taselaar is a unique universe in which only he determines the rules. He makes skilful drawings, but also clumsy ceramics and elaborate tapestries. Taselaar’s visual language emerged from the grey area in which text is not only meaning but also form. He expresses this in drawn puns, imaginary record sleeves or large psychedelic paintings.

”Koen Taselaar. Rollable Ramblings” is the first comprehensive publication on the artist’s textile work. The majority of Rollable Ramblings comprises reproductions of his tapestries, and zoom-ins on them. This visual component is complemented with essays shedding light on the works, and on the history of textile art in general, written by art critic Katalin Herzog. The book was made in collaboration with Textiellab, the professional workshop of the TextielMuseum, and published by Jap Sam Books.

In September of 2020 Taselaar presented the solo show ‘Opinionated Aquarium’ at Page Not Found, where some of the tapestries seen in the book were first revealed to the public.

Launch starts at 15:00.

Page Not Found proudly presents the fifth chapter of Open Letters. The project invites The Hague artists to occupy our large storefront window with messages of urgency and vulnerability. 

Artist and designer Matas Buckus shares two selected graphic interpretations of Anna Tsing’s “The Mushroom at the End of the World”. Produced manually with leftover pieces of adhesive vinyl and Dymo labels, the two selected compositions were scanned and vectorized, without excessive refinement, to be displayed at a larger scale. 

The eco-systems of earth are slowly but surely collapsing. As citizens, we have minimal control over the factors which affect the environment the most. Facing that fact, are there mind-sets we could inhabit in order to help balance our relentless human impact on planet earth? 

The use of contemporary technology in graphic design has exponentially grown in the past years, but has this been solely beneficial? Can we admit that anything viewed on our screens is technically not ‘real’, a composition of microscopic pixels, replicating and imitating images and principles of the real world? This seemingly non-existent distance between the human and the machine can be distracting, especially in the design process, simulating perfection that can easily be obsessed over.

This Open Letter was unveiled on 10 December 2021 and will be exhibited until 10 January 2022.

Open Letters are freely accessible from the street at any time.