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Its first issue comprises textual contributions – predominantly poetry and essays – by Hans Mils, Raymond Soriano, Dick Verzijden, Peter Iden, and many others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe issue is distinguished by an early number-based poem by Stanley Brouwn, anticipating his interest in meticulous counting and mathematical representations of the world, as well as by the magazine’s manifesto: a newspaper clipping from a local journal in which de Vries and Vancrevel introduce themselves and outline the periodical’s concept in a wittily descriptive article entitled “What is PTL?”. 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A fresh stencil breeze is blowing in.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘I must have recently said I am an active writer in Dutch literature.’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis nice saying certainly applies to PTL.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe content is, as editors De Vries and Vancrevel put it, a-programmatic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMentally ill: The first page begins with a quote from Aldous Huxley. The page concludes with four lines of poetry by Mathurin Régnier. In between are the background of PTL and a list of contributors. These contributors sometimes come from across the border. 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This work is by one of the editors, Herman de Vries, and bears the name ‘Reflektie’.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe figures on the cover have been applied with cork by the compilers, so that every buyer has the assurance of owning a unique work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHerman de Vries (31), a slender man with a friendly face, framed by a blond beard and crowned with glasses, has already made a name for himself with his famous book ‘Wit’. This unique edition consisted of a few hundred completely blank pages, from which, as indicated on the flap, nothing was to be reproduced or copied without permission, etc. It was presented on television by publisher M. Israëls, and costs 250 guilders. At an exhibition, a youthful vandal’s hand had written a swear word on one of the blank pages. 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In keeping with this anti-hierarchical ethos, all names throughout the magazine were printed in lowercase.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished in 1963, \u003cem\u003eNul = 0 No. 2\u003c\/em\u003e was conceived as a homage to Yves Klein, who had died on 6 June of that year, and Piero Manzoni, who had died on 6 February 1963. Its memorable cover reproduces the fingerprints of Manzoni’s right hand. The issue features contributions by Henk Peeters, Gillo Dorfles, Hans Haacke, and others, alongside a resonant statement by Yves Klein:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“It is not enough to say or write:\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eI have gone beyond the problematic of art\u003cem\u003e. \u003c\/em\u003eOne must still have done so. I have done so. For me, painting is no longer a function of the eye today; it is a function of the only thing within us that does not belong to us: our life.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOr, in the original French:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e« Il ne suffit pas de dire ou d'écrire : j'ai dépassé la problématique de l'art, Il faut encore l'avoir fait. je l'ai fait. Pour moi, la peinture n'est plus en fonction de l'œil aujourd'hui, elle est fonction de la seule chose qui ne nous appartient pas en nous : notre vie. »\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54911539675475,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/DSC4591.png?v=1789051983"}],"url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/collections\/herman-de-vries.oembed","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}