Artist talk by Marc Nagtzaam and conversation with Anya Jasbar and Daniel Augschöll about the publication ‘Present’

For this publication, Nagtzaam made compositions with frames, lines, dots, bars, scribbles, numbers, and pictures, all scanned from magazines and books he found in the library of the Laimun artist-in-residence program in Sardinia (Italy).
With an accompanying text about the library by Anya Jasbar.
Design: Marc Nagtzaam & Roger Willems. Edition 400 copies.

Present
Marc Nagtzaam
Ahorn Books x Roma Publications, 2022
Softcover
215 x 295 mm, 40 pages + insert

Marc Nagtzaam @ateliermarcnagtzaam
has been producing a body of work that is based on one main subject: the idea of pattern, the repetition. He draws lines, grids, circles, words, or sentences as in an endless search for collecting pieces of information.

Ahorn Books @ahornbooks
is a Berlin-based publishing project focused on the theory of photography, visual and cultural criticism, artist’s books and experimental writing. Founded in 2016 by Daniel Augschöll and Anya Jasbar.

Roma Publications @roma.publications
is an Amsterdam based art book publisher and design studio, founded in 1998 by graphic designer Roger Willems, and artists Mark Manders and Marc Nagtzaam. It is used as a platform to produce and distribute autonomous publications made in close collaboration with a growing number of artists, institutions, writers and designers.