Maarten Rots - Visual Artist

12/12/2025

10/12/2025

I'm always intrigued by posters in public space - when they get hung they often juxtapose the surrounding posters. Zooming in on the intersection of several announcements, I find interesting, unintended compositions.

Titled Urban Collage, this is the 40th(!) edition of March & Rock. In this issue I quite literally zoom in on posters in public spaces, to focus on the beauty in the imperfections that they contain.

When I started self-publishing a magazine featuring my own work just over 10 years ago, I had no idea what creating a new issue four times a year would entail. Today, I can no longer imagine my artistic practice without March & Rock.

Head over to my website to get yourself a copy of this edition. Find the link in my bio, or copy/paste this in your browser:

https://www.maartenrots.nl/march-rock-40-urban-collage

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21/10/2024

The new, 35th edition of March & Rock is here! Titled Signal to noise this edition of my self-published magazine focuses on my experiments with a camera that directly prints what it just captured on a tiny piece of thermographic paper, resulting in a black and white image on a curled piece of paper at the size of a sales receipt.

This is the most labour intensive edition to date, as I've done everything by hand. I screen-printed the cover with white ink on black paper, printed each page with my laser printer on beautiful recycled
Steinbeis No.2 paper, folded, stapled and trimmed each issue and numbered it in its edition of 200. This makes each publication unique. They're all slightly different in how they are put together and the characteristics of the techniques I used come to the surface in each copy.

To get your hands on an issue, order one on my website or subscribe to receive four new issues every year. Find the link in my bio or copy the link below to your browser's address bar. Thanks for your support!

https://www.maartenrots.nl/march-rock-35-signal-to-noise