tapetenwechsel / change of scenery
By Cynthia Lollis and Daniela Deeg
Germany: etc Press, 2008. Edition of 12.

11.25 x 8.5"; 9 folded prints. Prints: 28 x 40 cm (11 x 15.75"). Box: 28.5 x 21 x 2.3 cm (11.25 x 8.5 x 1.2"). Screenprint on Simili Japon. Color laser prints on Zanders Gohrsmühle. Housed in greyboard box with one drop down side for ease of lifting prints.

Betc Press: "'change of scenery' is a suite of nine folded prints presented together as a loose-leaf book. The drawings and photographs were made by the artists, Daniela Deeg and Cynthia Lollis, while traveling together abroad. The imagery deals with the surprising cultural differences of idiom usage in the artists’ native languages: German and English respectively. For example, Kalter Kaffee (cold coffee) = old hat (alter Hut). These double-sided serigraphs, plus tipped-in color laser prints, were printed at the Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium, in 2008."

Titles of prints:

kalter kaffee [cold coffee] / old hat
kinderleicht [child simple] / piece of cake
in die nesseln setzen [to sit in nettles] / in hot water
weisse mäuse sehen [to see white mice] / seeing pink elephants
in den sauren apfel beissen [to bite a sour apple] / bite the bullet
ein loch in den bauch redden [to talk a hole in one’s stomach] / talking one’s head off
ein katzensprung [a cat’s leap] / a stone’s throw away
zwei fliegen mit einer klappe schlagen [to kill two flies with one swatter] / killing two birds with one stone
dasselbe in grün [same thing in green] / six of one, half dozen of the other

$1000