For this booklet Marc Nagtzaam selected a series of drawings by painter Roeland Zijlstra. The pages are filled with drawings of men and women, often in unflattering poses in a day at the beach. To these scenes of unabashed and carefree amusement Marc Nagtzaam has added a series of quotes by artists, taken from various art magazines. The juxtaposition of this contrasting material results in a playful and surprising publication.

Reproductions of six wall drawings made by Marc Nagtzaam at San Serriffe, Amsterdam, during the month of June, 2013. Laser print on paper, hand stapled in a numbered edition of 40 copies.

Marc Nagtzaam 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.

The first publication published by Roma Publications, this coverless book shows collected text fragments hand written by Marc Nagtzaam – to be seen as sources of his work—followed by a series of abstracted drawings of passed exhibitions. Produced in an edition 200.

Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen’s 2004 record, COSMIC VOLUME # 17, with artwork by Marc Nagtzaam.

Marc Nagtzaam 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.

Zeichnungen is an artist book with a compilation of drawings – or rather, ‘sketches of drawings’ by Marc Nagtzaam. He combined his material by printing it in different layers on a Riso duplicator at the Charles Nypels Lab in Maastricht. The result is a careful composition of previously unpublished drawings that became a new work in itself. Printed in a limited edition of 200 copies, numbered and signed.

In this book, recent work by Marc Nagtzaam is shown together with installation views and some of his older drawings. As a result, the previous works can be viewed from the perspective of the new, and vice versa. Nagtzaam sees exhibitions and books as single works. The same compositional approach used when making the drawings is also reflected in the structure of this book. In this manner, Nagtzaam reveals the link between the hard-edge abstraction of the drawings, which can be read as architectural plans, and his spatial installations in which they function as elements in a larger composition, suggestive of an obscure organising principle. Designed by Marc Nagtzaam in collaboration with Roger Willems.