Printer’s Proof at Paris Danube Print Salon

PARIS DANUBE PRINT SALON
26 - 29 NOVEMBER 2026

VIP Preview (By Invitation Only):
Thursday 26 November, 6pm - 9pm
Friday 27 November: 2pm - 7pm
Saturday 28 November: 2pm - 7pm
Sunday 29 November: 2pm - 7pm

Printer’s Proof is honoured to announce its participation in the upcoming Paris Danube Print Salon. Distinguished by its unique and intimate format, the Paris Danube Print Salon brings together a curated selection of just 20 international publishers and printmaking studios. 

For this year's showcase, we welcome visitors to the Hôtel du Danube, a historic 18th-century gem located at 58 Rue Jacob in the legendary Saint-Germain-des-Prés artistic district—situated mere steps away from the historic École des Beaux-Arts. Within this evocative setting, Printer's Proof has staged a curated dialogue between two internationally acclaimed artists: Berlin-based Arturo Herrera and Los Angeles-based Liat Yossifor. Though working in profoundly contrasting visual languages, both artists converge in a shared, cyclical fascination with the fluid, liminal boundary between figuration and abstraction.

On the surface, their structural methodologies diverge. Herrera’s practice operates as a highly orchestrated, cerebral exercise in fragmentation. He dissects and reconfigures elements sourced from external, referential origins, treating them as fragments for new compositions. Deliberately infusing his abstractions with moments of concrete legibility, he simultaneously destabilises that familiarity from within. Faced with a Herrera composition, the eye initially gravitates toward a recognised representation, yet a closer reading reveals a restless refusal to remain anchored—capturing a calculated, tense state of “unbecoming."

Yossifor, by contrast, adopts an expressive, gestural approach. Born from the immediate, physical movement of paint, her visual vocabulary relies on a cyclical framework where the human form and recognisable objects constantly emerge, only to be buried back into the heavy texture of pure movement. Even within her printmaking, figuration is never truly absent; instead, it remains trapped beneath the surface as a phantom presence.

This artistic tension is fully realised in the suites selected for the salon. Arturo Herrera's mixed-technique print suite, Portal, merges traditional printmaking with avant-garde spatial concepts through aquatint and precise collage layering. Developed with Printer's Proof, this series extracts figures from Western art history - relying on historical reproductions by masters like Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Piero di Cosimo, and Peter Paul Rubens. Herrera treats these classical works as raw material, cutting and splicing fragments together. These layers are overlaid with striking geometric planes of vibrating ultramarine, bright red, and vivid pink, shifting the focus from narrative recognition to raw visual perception.

Complementing this structure is Liat Yossifor’s monotype portfolio, Seascapes. This project translates her visceral approach into an intimate, watercolour format. To mimic her daily studio drawings, Yossifor painted intuitively on a non-absorbent glass surface. This allowed her to experiment with the passage of time, as the wet watercolour remained fluid until the moment it was hand-pulled onto paper. Working blindly without knowing exactly how the pigments would transfer, she beautifully captures the meeting of water and sky. The resulting unique prints - one of which has entered the permanent collection of the Benton Museum of Art - act as quiet, liminal spaces where the vastness of a seascape emerges from raw, wet gestures.