Look Back and Laugh

Contact

Look Back and Laugh

http://lbalbooks.tictail.com/

lbalbooks@gmail.com

Founded byZoran Pungerčar

Zoran Pungerčar, Head of the publishing house

hello@zoranpungercar.com

Events abroad

Past Events

• 13 Dec 2019

  Austria Vienna Stair 13

  
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  Look Back and Laugh present their publishing programme, featuring an art exhibition, supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA),

  
  

  
  

  
  

• 22 Sep 2017

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  24 Sep 2017

  USA New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

  
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  P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute and Look Back and Laugh presentation

  at the NY Art Book Fair

  
  

  
  

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Look Back and Laugh is a small publishing house issuing zines and artist’s books. Led by the visual artist and graphic designer Zoran Pungerčar, this boutique enterprise was founded in 2011 and is stationed in Ljubljana. It runs a distinctively international profile, publishing artists from all over Europe and is regularly participating at zine fairs abroad. Each year Look Back and laugh also organises a fair for zines called Caffeine Hours.

Look Back and Laugh is open to all sorts of art and has also published music (on a cassette tape) and poetry. Possibly the most favoured technique for its publications is that of risograph printing.

Publications and artists

Amongst the roughly three publications issued each year, the Look Back and Laugh portfolio most often includes drawings, as for example 'Reversed Archeology' by Geran Knol (BE), 'Peculiar Forest' by Kjersti Johanne Barli (NO) and 'Remember my labour of love' by Quentin Chambry from France.

There are also photograph collections (one such a work was a dialogue between the photographs of Jaka Bulc and the designs done by Zoran Pungerčar, encapsulated in a zine called 'You Might Even Enjoy It', 2015) and music releases, such as a tape by Oval Angle (BE), featuring a golden glitter tape with riso-printed covers. In 2014 LBAL published a book of poetry together with LUD Literatura. If one looks closely, semi-pornographic material from punk parties can also be found in LBAL's catalogue.

LBAL is regularly frequenting fairs and festivals all over Europe, among them Grafixx, the festival for paper and print in Antwerp, Miss Read – The Berlin Art Book Fair, Blind Date Convention, Festival of the Artist’s Book – and also various punk fests (like Fluff Fest in Czech Republic), which are very connected with the zine culture.

Caffeine Hours

As of 2011 Look Back and Laugh is annually setting up Caffeine Hours fair for zines and printed materials at either Klub Menza pri koritu or Tovarna Rog.

Zoran Pungerčar

Zoran Pungerčar lives and works in Ljubljana as a graphic designer, painter and illustrator. His style is quite distinctive and recognisable even though it ranges from art zines and graphic works to paintings and concert posters. He is much sought after for the latter, and has worked extensively with ŠKUC Buba Booking and Promotion. In 2012 one of his illustrations was featured in The New York Times.

Some of the places he exhibited at are the P74 Gallery, KIBLA Portal, Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, the Independent Biennial and the Visions Festival, London (a group show).

External links

• Look Back and Laugh webpage
• Look Back and Laugh on Bandcamp
• Zoran Pungenčar's website
• Zoran Pungenčar on Tumblr
• Zoran Pungenčar's webshop
• An article on zine culture in Slovenia (in Slovene)

See also

• LUD Literatura
• DobraVaga
• Blind Date Convention, Festival of the Artist’s Book
• P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute