Weserburg: Tobias Premper

Exhibition Studienzentrum | 9.03.2012 - 20.05.2012

Tobias Premper - Boxenbücher

His personal notes and his unique perception of the world form the foundation of the so-called “Box Books”, the text and image publications composed of groups of lose pages realized by Tobias Premper, Berlin-based artist, writer and freelance author. These cardboard-box treasure chests are produced in signed and limited editions. Each individual box contains between 50 and 100 pages that have been partially made by hand (e.g. original drawings), collaged, stamped, glued, torn, sprayed, printed or simply copied.

: Tobias Premper, in: Once upon no time, 2011

In the catalogue-brochure the artist explains: “the idea for the first Box Book arose in 2006 out of my need to fix the images, texts and ideas that surrounded me at the time (as well as those from the past) and to archive them for future reference. These random thoughts, important and unimportant, not only represent an aspect of my awareness and of my curiosity, they are also evidence of my real and my unreal lives.”