DOEprojekts (Deborah Adams Doering and Glenn N. Doering) was fascinated by the Faszination Papier: Rembrandt bis Kiefer exhibition at the Albertina Museum in December 2025, part of our art research trip in Austria and Switzerland.
Many of the artworks resonated with us as they were in direct dialog with our own works. For example, DOEprojekts has produced many cut stencils that are in conversation with these geometric stencils displayed in the exhibit:
Top image: Interference on Television by Hanns Wallner.
Bottom image: Masons' Guild Book by a Swabian Master
We have also created an art portfolio of pochoirs (stencils that can be used as "rubbings"). In the paper exhibition, there were several fine examples of this type of pochoir print.
Left image: Jump by Alena Kucerová. Right image: Untitled by Günther Uecker
Here are the 4 steps in the creation of a DOEprojekts stencil and print:
1. The stencil is drawn out, life-size (upper left)
2. It is then transferred to Yupo paper and then cut out with an Xacto knife (upper right)
3. The stencil is laid on a piece of art paper, and ink is rolled over it (lower left)
4. The completed print (lower right)
Our rubbings are often creative interpretations of our stencils, or are popular community participation projects at our workshops or socially engaged art exhibitions, as seen below.
Before we left Zurich, preliminary planning was already being discussed for a possible 2027 DOEprojekts Exhibition/Installation/Workshop at one of the city's historic art venues.
The photos below show Deborah measuring for a possible window stencil at the Kulturhaus Hilferei, a building constructed during the 1100s.
We look forward to a 21st century opportunity to bring our timeless Coreforms to a 1000-year-old building.
