Santiago Serra- Black Posters

84 pages
29.7 x 21 cm
Language: English
Printed in black on white paper and in black on pure black cotton powder black paper & carbon zero - Züber Rieder Paper factory
Publisher: Juste Ici
Edition of 200 copies
2018

The Spanish conceptual artist Santiago Serra is known for his radical and controversial works, which are very critical of society. Through Black Posters, an action taken since 2008 in different cities, he opposes, through the massive collage of black posters, a striking counterpoint to advertising messages that are omnipresent in the public space. This negation of the message nonetheless provokes reactions that are conducive to debate.
Santiago Sierra intervened in Besançon during Bien Urbain in june 2018, some collages are visible in this book.

Layout by Quentin Coussirat. Silkscreen printing by David Demougeot, content’s printing by Quentin Coussirat in Risographie at the Superseñor workshop.

PHOTO CREDITS :
4.000 BLACK POSTERS, LONDON
Shoreditch and Bricklane. London, United Kingdom. June-July 2008.
Photographs: Lisson Gallery

4.000 BLACK POSTERS, BERLIN
Postdamer Platz and Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany, October, 2011.
Photographs: Daimler und Benz Stiftung.

1.000 BLACK POSTERS, VITERBO
Cantieri d’Arte, Viterbo, Italy, October 2012
Photographs: Emanuela Moroni.

1.000 BLACK POSTERS, ISTANBUL
Beyoglu, Galata, Cihangir and Tarlabasi. Istanbul, Turkey. January, 2015
Photographs: Galeri Zilberman.

1.000 BLACK POSTERS, MADRID
Vallecas. Madrid, October 2015.
Photographs: Galería Encarnación González.

2,000 BLACK POSTERS, BASEL
Beyeler Foundation. Basel, Switzerland. October 2015
Photographs: Mark Niedermann.

1000 BLACK POSTERS, BESANCON, FRANCE
Bien Urbain Festival, Besançon, France, June 2018
Photographs: Brad Downey, Lucas Hihn