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Artists’ BookMarket

artelibro — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:46:32 +0000

Artists’ BookMarket returns to The Fruitmarket Gallery this spring, with artists who work in book form from near and far setting out their stalls. The Fruitmarket Gallery bookshop is open throughout, specially arranged to spotlight its own stock of artists’ books. See the Gallery’s facebook page for updates. To participate, contact Iain Morrison, Commercial Opportunities Manager: iain@fruitmarket.co.uk

The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

Friday 13th April 2012 from 2:30pm, until 8:30pm

Alexander Girard

artelibro — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:12:22 +0000

ALEXANDER GIRARD
by Todd Oldham & Kiera Coffee

Renowned designer Todd Oldham and writer Kiera Coffee have created this massive monograph on seminal designer Alexander Girard as the ultimate tribute to this design icon.

This 672-page book covers virtually every aspect of Girard’s distinctive career. As one of the most prolific and versatile mid-20th century designers, Girard’s work spanned many disciplines, including textile design, graphic design, typography, illustration, furniture design, interior design, product design, exhibit design, and architecture. Exhaustively researched and lovingly assembled by designer Todd Oldham, this tome is the definitive must-have book on Girard’s oeuvre.

Girard’s repertoire includes an incredible list of projects, including his bold, colorful, and iconic textile designs for Herman Miller (1952-1975), his typographic designs for La Fonda del Sol restaurant (1960), his celebrated retail store Textiles and Objects (1961), his own Girard Foundation (1962) that houses his own extensive, personal collection of folk art from around the world, and his complete branding and environmental design for Braniff International Airways (1965).

Girard’s work continues to inspire new generations of designers and admirers, and this beautiful book is the ultimate tribute to his legacy.

www.ammobooks.com

Comedy carpet. Blackpool

artelibro — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:08:11 +0000

Created by artist Gordon Young, and designed in collaboration with Why Not Associates, the Comedy Carpet is a celebration of comedy on an extraordinary scale. Referring to the work of more than 1,000 comedians and comedy writers, the carpet gives visual form to jokes, songs and catchphrases dating from the early days of variety to the present. Sited in front of Blackpool Tower, the 2,200m2 work of art contains over 160,000 granite letters embedded into concrete, pushing the boundaries of public art and typography to their limits.
A remarkable homage to those who have made the nation laugh, it’s also a stage for popular entertainment that celebrates entertainment itself.
The £2.6m Comedy Carpet was commissioned by Blackpool Council as part of the multi-million pound regeneration of the sea front including vital sea defence works. It was funded by CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) as part of it’s Sea Change programme.

Blackpool holds a unique place in the affections of generations of British holiday-makers and fun-seekers. As well as its sandy beaches, piers, amusement parks and pleasure beaches, it has many extraordinary buildings devoted to entertainment and show business, including the Grand Theatre, the Winter Gardens and the Blackpool Tower. Connecting these places together is the promenade known as the Golden Mile which stretches the length of the town.
As part of the council’s plans to regenerate the town and carry out necessary sea defence works, the entire length has been re-landscaped and three new headlands built. Created as a key work of art for the central headland, the Comedy Carpet will also be a stage for performances and events.
Designed in a cross shape, the carpet links the entrance of the Blackpool Tower to the beach and connects the north and south sides of the promenade. Laid out in a grid pattern in strips of 10 slabs each, the work can be read in different directions, from close up and from the top of the tower, with the font varying in size from a few centimetres to over a metre.

http://comedycarpet.com/about/

The time machine and confrontational perspectives

artelibro — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:02:07 +0000

THE TIME MACHINE
ALEX CECCHETTI, MARK GEFFRIAUD, KIT POULSON WITH ALEX BAKER
INTRODUCED BY FRANCESCO PEDRAGLIO

17 JANUARY 2012, 6–9.30PM
THE SHOWROOM
63 PENFORLD STREET
LONDON NW8 8PQ

The Time Machine is a project that asks us to forget about archives and embrace the confusion of the present, in order to consciously experiment with all our imaginable histories and expected futures. Presented as part of Again, A Time Machine at The Showroom, words and archives are discharged into the present, through a series of performative talks and events. This event sees performances, readings and sound work by Alex Cecchetti, Mark Geffriaud, and Kit Poulson with Alex Baker, at the launch of their three publications: A Society that Breathes Once a Year by Alex Cecchetti, The Curve of Forgotten Things by Mark Geffriaud, and The Ice Cream Empire by Kit Poulson.

The Time Machine, selected and edited by Francesco Pedraglio from open submission, is a project that asks us to forget about archives and embrace the confusion of the present, in order to consciously experiment with all our imaginable histories and expected futures.

CONFRONTATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
CHICKS ON SPEED
CLAIRE MAKHLOUF CARTER
MARINA VISHMIDT

14 FEBRUARY, 6.30–9.00PM
THE SHOWROOM
63 PENFORLD STREET
LONDON NW8 8PQ

The next event, Confrontational Perspectives reawakens the spirit of Book Works: A Women’s Perspective (1992) in a night of beats, provocations, screening and confrontations, featuring Chicks on Speed, Claire Makhlouf Carter, and Marina Vishmidt.

ADMISSION IS FREE BUT BOOKING ESSENTIAL.
TELEPHONE BOOK WORKS ON 020 7247 2203

Book Works is funded by Arts Council England. Project supported by Arts council England Grants for the Arts; The Henry Moore Foundation; Institut Français du Royaume-Uni

www.bookworks.org.uk

Scritture

artelibro — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:56:14 +0000

On Wednesday, the 16th of December 2011, at 6 pm, the Bonomo Gallery inaugurates Scritture, an exhibition on the use of words in art. Words and writings are here intended both as a tool to evoke the image and a as self-standing statement. The artworks exhibited have been selected in the course of time through a research that the gallery has conducted on word with an artistic more than literary interest.

The Bible indicates the word as the first and unique act of creation, so powerful as to originiate the entire universe. During the 70s, conceptual art placed minimalist writings into one of the primary roles. Through the works made by some of the leading artists of that period, this exhibition aims at illustrating modern research on words in art: “L’Encyclopedia Britannica” by Joseph Kosuth, tapestries by Alighiero Boetti, literary titles by Giulio Paolini, scribbles by Cy Twombly, writings by Hanne Darboven, calligraphy by Shrin Neshat, works by Nicola De Maria, messages by Tibetan artists and several others artworks by contemporary and emerging artists.

Bibliographic research conducted by Lino Sinibaldi

Alighiero Boetti

Giuseppe Caccavale

Biagio Caldarelli

Hanne Darboven

Tullio De Gennaro

Franco Dellerba

Nicola De Maria

Jiri Georg Dokoupil

Antonis Donef

Christopher Dorland

Dru-Gu Choegyal

Hamish Fulton

Keith Haring

Sol Lewitt

Paolo Lunanova

Dru-Gu Choegyal

Hamish Fulton

Keith Haring

Sol Lewitt

Paolo Lunanova

Joseph Kosuth

Piero Manzoni

Kazuko Miyamoto

Matteo Montani

Shirin Neshat

Pippo Patruno

Giulio Paolini

Es Rouya

Jonathan Selinger

Pat Steir

Cy Twombly

Valentina Vetturi

Andy Warhol

Galleria Bonomo – Ass. Culturale – Via Nicolò Dell’Arca, 19 – 70121 Bari
Tel. +390805210145; fax +390805217508
galleria.bonomo@libero.it – www.galleriabonomobari.it
Opening times: Monday – Friday: 10,00-13,00 and 17,30 -19,30. Saturdays only by appointment

Francesco Clemente. Made in India

artelibro — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:07:16 +0000

Francesco Clemente. Made in India. Salman Rushdie in conversation with the artist
published by Charta Art Books
Tuesday November 29, 7 – 8 pm
Strand Bookstore
corner of 12th Street and Broadway
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Francesco Clemente first traveled to India in 1973 in search of “somewhere else.” The acutely contemporary world of India that he encountered, whose antiquity had been transformed and reinvented by a lively popular culture, enchanted him. The artist would find himself at home there over the next four decades.
During his visits, Clemente’s image-indulgent eye, always ready to “conquer the world as picture,” took innumerable routes through the ever-mutating cartography of Indian visual culture. In fact, it seems the images got used to him — they rotated around him, gravitated towards him, surrounded him by capillary attraction. Temple exteriors, shop signage, calendars, bidi wrappers, advertisements, graffiti… Clemente built up an archive of these Indian images — both in his memory and in his notebooks filled with hundreds of drawings, lying latent over decades, coalescing, talking to each other, eventually surfacing in his work in another incarnation, another context.
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Texts by Jyotindra Jain, Stella Kramrisch, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Salman Rushdie • 17 x 24 cm • 240 pages • paperback • 344 illustrations in color • ISBN 978-88-8158-809-1 • € 37.00 (CHARTA 2011)
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Charta also published Francesco Clemente in 2009, Francesco Clemente the Sopranos in 2008, Francesco Clemente Works 1971-1979 in 2007, Francesco Clemente in 2000.

www.chartaartbooks.it

Fruit of the Forest

artelibro — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:28:07 +0000

Fruit of the Forest | DESIGN MAGAZINE. Issue # 1 | THE ENERGY ISSUE. Autumn 2011.

download now in the App Store, http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fruit-of-the-forest-magazine/id432888558?mt=8 and on the website www.fruitoftheforestmagazine.com

Fruit of the Forest is an experimental magazine that views design as something to discover in the myriad ways in which it surrounds us. We are making a magazine that explores design in the same way as contemporary art.

In this issue:
Los Angeles and the accidental art and of photographer Charles Brittin. Tokyo and the (re)discovered art of saving energy. Beirut and the graphic designer Tarek Atrissi, whose work is energizing Arabic typography. A trip to the Vitra Design Museum. 10 questions with Berlin-based designer Beta Tank. Organic, pulsating creations by Hilde De Decker, Tomas Libertiny and Nacho Carbonell. The talents of bryophytes; and an exploration of polycarbonate. A visual essay on the star shape as symbol. A story in images: people, things and places by a newyorker photographer.

Fruit of the Forest is published by Fortino Editions, an independent publishing project.

Where to find Fruit of the Forest
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fruit-of-the-forest-magazine/id432888558?mt=8 | www.fruitoftheforestmagazine.com
Fruit of the Forest is free

Cheap Art America

artelibro — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:50:21 +0000

Booklyn presents CHEAP ART AMERICA: P’s & Q’s (October 15 – November 13, 2011). Opening reception: Saturday, October 15, 2011; 7 – 10PM

Or… what if we write out a bunch of words and sentiments from our list and use them in a “statement of purpose” visioning session? We can cross some of them out and make it look kind of messy and punkish. Then, put ‘Ps & Qs‘ on top in a nice font…

ambivalent, but not apathetic pastiche plus thrift snarky smark and the spunky bunch if cartoons had nightmares, catalyzing contradiction not comedy, but not above the one-liner lawnchair pontificators anything is possible, get back to work.

t could be nice to do something like this for the press release as well. Or why not just use this document? Maybe in doing that, we can avoid committing to some lofty mission statement that rambles on about all of the things that we are “exploring”. Besides, the struggle to define ourselves has really become one of our defining characteristics. And institutions totally dig that type of self-reflexive dialog. Yeah, let’s just say that this is the press release.

Cheap Art America is MacGregor Douglas Harp and Victor Hu. P’s & Q’s is the fourth in a series of group exhibitions dedicated to providing self-publishing artists, who generally share their work through zines and other printed matter, with a platform for exhibition, experimentation and exploration outside of the printed format. Curated by Aimee Lusty.

Booklyn Artists Alliance
37 Greenpoint Avenue 4FL
Brooklyn, NY 11222
(718) 383-9621
www.booklyn.org

hors-série # 03 SYLVIE EYBERG. Trasloco

artelibro — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:38:10 +0000

hors-série # 03
SYLVIE EYBERG. Trasloco.
A selection from a series of large silkscreen prints (200 x 150 cm), made in 2003, were cut to 4 equal parts of 100 x 75 cm.

The total edition consist of 40 (+ 4 A.P.) unique silkscreen-prints.
Each print is folded by hand to 25 X 37 cm, and presented in a stamped, signed and numbered envelope.

www.morepublishers.be

AGAIN, A TIME MACHINE – part five Stewart Home

artelibro — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:30:49 +0000

From his earliest work Stewart Home has expressed an avantgardist desire to write himself into the archive of culture. Mixing myth and polemic, with plagarism and a savage ideological critique, the parodic manifestos of Generation Positive, progressed into the self- historicising magazine Smile, the Neoists, and finally The Art Strike — an aggressive appropriation of Gustav Metzger’s strike proposal. Home’s return to anti- art practice saw the publication of a rash of polymorphous perversities, including Red London, and Defiant Pose, exhibitions at City Racing, workfortheeyetodo, and with Imprint 93, as well as ongoing performance, prank and film work. His cultural output now forms a significant archive of counter-cultural activities, not only written into the archive of culture, but networked across it, in a practice which seamlessly moves between unearthing unknown radical histories such asBlack Mask — Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers, reworkings of Lettrist Cinema, and writing projects, such as Book Works’ recent Semina series.

Presented as part of Again, A Time Machine, alongside the ongoing A Poster Project by Jonathan Monk, this is the first US retrospective of Home’s work and features a selection of artwork, including Art Strike Bed, Vermeer II and Becoming (M)other, publications and ephemera and a live performance with Kenneth Goldsmith.

Book Works is funded by Arts Council England. Project supported by Arts Council England Grants for the Arts; The Henry Moore Foundation; and material for Stewart Home archive generously lent by Mark Pawson.

WHITE COLUMNS
320 WEST 13TH STREET (ENTER ON HORATIO STREET, BETWEEN HUDSON AND 8TH AVENUE)
NEW YORK, NY 10014
USA

22 OCTOBER TO 19 NOVEMBER
OPENING 21 OCTOBER 6-8PM

PERFORMANCE BY STEWART HOME AND KENNETH GOLDSMITH
22 OCTOBER 6.30PM