{"title":"Peter Schmidt","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"rot-a-prints-1","title":"Rot a Prints","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis handmade book by Peter Schmidt comprises 50 colour-printed sheets produced on the Rotaprint press, acquired by Watford School of Art in the late 1960s during a formative period in its printmaking programme. Schmidt, then one of the school’s most influential professors, used the machine as a tool to develop systematic investigations into colour and compositional structure. Across its sequence, the work articulates a sustained inquiry into abstraction as process. Colour and form unfold through accumulation and variation, generating a rhythm of shifting visual propositions. The result is a structured yet fluid progression in which drawings and printed images interweave, evoking imaginary landscapes while fixing the material logic of print.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe publication includes a title page and two printed text pages that situate the work within a collaborative environment shaped by experimentation and exchange. In a dedication acknowledging the parallel presence of Dieter Roth at the school and his engagement with the Rotaprint press, Schmidt writes: “In January 1968 a new person and a new machine appeared at Watford. Both worked badly (well). I learned some new words: beauties, refreshing, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003everfänglichkeit\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e [meaning something like ‘trickiness’ or ‘awkwardness\/precariousness’], and was advised not to worry. This book is the result of these new acquaintances. PS.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHansjorg Mayer was also invited as a visiting professor, working directly with the Rotaprint process and extending its experimental possibilities. The publication was issued by Mayer himself in a very limited edition of 36 copies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"metabooks-dev","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53801252356435,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/RotaprintsCover.png?v=1781704149"},{"product_id":"futura-14-bis-26","title":"Futura 14 bis 26","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eProduced by poet and printer Hansjörg Mayer in Stuttgart between 1965 and 1968, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003efutura\u003c\/em\u003e series explored the poetic potential of typography through a sequence of 26 broadsides. Each issue featured an exercise in style by a different artist or poet, who was given complete freedom to experiment with the expressive possibilities of language-based art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe broadsides were subsequently issued in two collectible volumes, each comprising 13 works. The second volume brings together contributions by Carlo Belloli, Jonathan Williams, Hiro Kamimura, Wolfgang Schmidt, Pierre Garnier, Bob Cobbing, Edwin Morgan, Dick Higgins, Wolf Vostell, Herman de Vries, Peter Schmidt, Andre Thomkins, and Robert Filliou, offering a remarkable survey of the international concrete and experimental poetry movement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54150285066579,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/Futura2.png?v=1782892872"}],"url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/collections\/peter-schmidt.oembed","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}