This age of slick, offset, corporate-controlled publishing is also the age of photocopied zines, artist books, desktop publishing, and the small press. Booklyn no profit organization’s mission is to encourage the proliferation and appreciation of people-made books as an antidote to industry-produced counterparts.
On Friday 25 March, the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi is hosting the launch of the second issue of TOILET PAPER, a new project by Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari, published by the Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art in Athens.
Terence Koh (Beijing, 1977) is a Canadian artist, who creates handmade books and zines, prints, photographs, sculptures, performances, and installations. Much of his diverse work involves queer, punk, and pornographic sensibilities.
With the Sunday Book Fair – organized for the first time at the museum – the Stedelijk aims to be a platform for the presentation of recently published artists books, readers, catalogues, encyclopedia’s, etc. inviting publishing houses of a modest scale to pitch their new books in the Auditorium of the Stedelijk, followed by a book fair in the museum café.
James Jarvis is a British graphic artist, illustrator and toy designer who was at the forefront of the soft vinyl toy revolution. Having studied illustration at the University of Brighton and the Royal College of Art, Jarvis was also part of the Slam City Skate scene in London where he created graphics for the Silas and Holmes labels.
Joachim Schmid presents the new book Seventy-Five Are Better Than Thirty-Two
Part of the project Bologna Art First 2011 “If a winters’ day a traveller”, Friday 11 February 2011, 5 pm at the Anathomical Theatre of Archiginnasio , Anatomia Parallela by SISSI, third and last performance of the project Bologna Art First ‘If in a winter’s day a traveller” curated by Julia Draganovic
Archiviazioni is an open project of documentation, discussion and action conceived and curated by Giusy Checola and developed in collaboration with Luigi Presicce, Salvatore Baldi and Enrico Stano, it’s included in the program Lab 12:00, a platform of investigation on the artistic and curatorial practises in the South of Italy of the SoutHeritage Foundation for Contemporary Art of Matera.
Nieves presents Diselbrugger Apokalypse by Emanuel Halpern (Zurich, Switzerland). When someone as peaceful as Emanuel Halpern (Zurich, 1948) draws an apocalypse, things must be pretty bad with the world. His fifty large-scale coloured pencil drawings telling the story of the destruction of Dieselbrugg confirm this prediction. This is his comic version of [...]
C Magazine is proud to announce the launch of our “Money” issue, which includes an artist project by Abbas Akhavan, where he has inserted a sheet of imitation gold leaf in each of 2,200 copies of C Magazine. Also available are 25 special limited edition magazines with real gold leaf, signed and numbered by the [...]
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