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From 1993 to 1996, René Block worked for Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen in Stuttgart, and from 1997 to 2006 was Director of Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel. His career took him through different fields of activity involving artists and their works, and we can discern a gradual movement away from supporting artists to art museums, and yet it also saw him working on international shows, above all for biennials the world over. During this time, the Edition was inactive, but Block the publisher was not, increasingly focusing on prints. Thus, during his time in Kassel as Director of Kunsthalle Fridericianum, in connection with exhibition projects there it brought out several editions of prints. They included a series of five early block clay prints by KP Brehmer dating from the 1960s (which were re-issued as a special edition), new offset lithographs by Richard Hamilton and Claus Böhmler as well as a series by Ilya Kabakov, Olaf Metzel and Lawrence Weiner, that appeared in the form of individual sheets accompanying the "Chronos & Kairos" show in 1999. In connection with various biennial exhibitions Block curated he was able to persuade the institutions behind the shows to dare produce portfolios of prints. In 1985, "Dem Frieden eine Form geben" appeared on the occasion of the Peace Biennial in Hamburg, a linen boxed set with seven sheets and one object. Robert Filliou, the biennial’s initiator, planned it with the goal of re-uniting "art, science and wisdom" in order to achieve a "new authenticity" and thus contribute to peace being achieved. In other words, the portfolio was a logical way of leaving the local platform of Hamburg and made the artists’ proposal known to a supra-regional audience. In 1990, it was followed by a portfolio called "The Readymade Boomerang" for the Sydney Biennial, that traced the history of the ready-mades and the development of the object since Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia, juxtaposing this to the works of contemporary artists. The portfolio contained 22 sheets that reflected the theme of the exhibition in terms of content/history and at the practical level. The results are correspondingly diverse, for the experimentation with the most diverse of printing techniques gave rise to a set of prints that reflect an entire epoch of developments in prints. Five years later the "Orient/ation" portfolio appeared on the occasion of the 1995 Istanbul Biennial, containing 17 sheets and one object. The biennial focused on a
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