Stig De Block: EAST LOS - PREORDER (book & special edition)

ARTIST Stig De Block TITLE EAST LOS YEAR 2026 PUBLISHER Self-publication MEDIUM Hardcover, with dustjacket SIZE 24,5 x 30 cm PAGES approx. 228 LANGUAGE English ISBN TBD *BOOK AVAILABLE IN NOVEMBER 2026* Preordering the book gives you access to a special discounted price until its official release in November 2026. 3 OPTIONS : BOOK ONLY / BOOK + PRINT 1 / BOOK + PRINT 2 Print 1 Dreamscape 1, Elysian Park, CA, USA, 2026 Edition of 51 Signed, numbered & stamped on verso Fine-Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, Cotton Paper 22,5 x 29,5cm Print 2 Hand on Fence, 2022 Edition of 51 Signed, numbered & stamped on verso Fine-Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, Cotton Paper 29,5 x 22,5cm East Los is made in close collaboration with renowned author and former Los Angeles Poet Laureate Luis J. Rodriguez, whose generous gift of his poem “The Eastside Of All Eastsides” became the foundation for my journey through the East of Los Angeles. Inspired by his words, I took long and short walks, had in-depth and short talks. ----------------- “IN EAST LA THE SURFACE NEVER SETTLES” by STIG DE BLOCK It is scraped, layered, reclaimed, and repainted before it’s painted again. A single wall holds three generations of decisions. Each coat of color marks a new claim to space, a new attempt to define belonging. East LA is a place where expression and survival merge without permission. Time, in this body of work, is both subject and material. East LA appears not as a fixed geography but as a manuscript of accumulated surfaces. I trace these material histories through façades that recall a real life collage: pastel warehouse walls fading into half-tone cemented windows, wooden reinforcements aligning with neighboring roofs, and color fields that evoke the monumental abstraction of a Rothko, though in concrete and plaster.