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Zwart-wit & Bericht uit 't Strokartongebied,
MAGd.FACTOR / LALE Limited, Jipsinghuizen, 2000. (Ed. by Magda Lagerwerf)
Zwart-wit & Bericht uit 't Strokartongebied,
MAGd.FACTOR / LALE Limited, Jipsinghuizen, 2000. (Ed. by Magda Lagerwerf)
Zwart-wit & Bericht uit 't Strokartongebied — loosely translated as Black-and-White & Report from the Strawboard Region — is the first volume in a projected series of "image-reports" (beeldberichten) initiated by Dutch visual artists Magda Lagerwerf and Dédé Wolter. The "Strokartongebied" (Strawboard Region) refers to the industrial landscape of the Groningen–Nieuweschans corridor in the northeastern Netherlands, historically defined by its strawboard (cardboard) factories — a reference that grounds this international Mail Art publication firmly in local geography and industrial identity.
Lagerwerf and Wolter gathered personal "reports" — visual and textual messages — from correspondents worldwide, selecting contributions that were characterized by clear imagery, upright statements, enigmatic fragmentary dispatches, hidden messages, and successful collages. The resulting publication presents an "imaginary black-and-white territory overgrown by a gliding, color-screaming pictorial world," as described in the introduction.
The publication was produced by MAGd.FACTOR (the artist-publishing imprint of Magda Lagerwerf) in a limited edition of 150 copies, plus 50 additional copies reserved for contributing artists, with financial support from the Province of Groningen and the Vereniging Beeldende Kunstenaars Station Kropswolde (BKSK). It was made available through BKSK at Woldweg 46, 9607 PR Foxhol, and carries the ISBN 90 76941 01 7.
The "Strokartongebied" designation connects this publication directly to the broader artistic program of Galerie Halte Kropswolde, the artist-run gallery in a former NS railway station that Magda Lagerwerf co-founded in 1989 and which served throughout the 1990s as a focal point for international Mail Art activity in the Netherlands.
Lagerwerf and Wolter gathered personal "reports" — visual and textual messages — from correspondents worldwide, selecting contributions that were characterized by clear imagery, upright statements, enigmatic fragmentary dispatches, hidden messages, and successful collages. The resulting publication presents an "imaginary black-and-white territory overgrown by a gliding, color-screaming pictorial world," as described in the introduction.
The publication was produced by MAGd.FACTOR (the artist-publishing imprint of Magda Lagerwerf) in a limited edition of 150 copies, plus 50 additional copies reserved for contributing artists, with financial support from the Province of Groningen and the Vereniging Beeldende Kunstenaars Station Kropswolde (BKSK). It was made available through BKSK at Woldweg 46, 9607 PR Foxhol, and carries the ISBN 90 76941 01 7.
The "Strokartongebied" designation connects this publication directly to the broader artistic program of Galerie Halte Kropswolde, the artist-run gallery in a former NS railway station that Magda Lagerwerf co-founded in 1989 and which served throughout the 1990s as a focal point for international Mail Art activity in the Netherlands.
