Enter the enchanting world of make-believe in Fairy Tales, the first work of fiction by groundbreaking Dutch fashion designers Viktor & Rolf. Beautifully illustrated by the designers themselves, their surreal fairytales feature a lonely disco hedgehog, a magical golden dress, and a little girl with bright red hair, as well as many other memorable characters.

This sumptuous book is essential reading for style-conscious babies, fashionistas, and anyone with a hankering for someluxurious escapism.

hardiegrant.com.au

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
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

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

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. Salman Rushdie in conversation with the artist

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

In collaboration with Be-Part, Platform voor actuele kunst, Waregem

www.pietervermeersch.be

www.romapublications.org

Printed Matter

Philip Aarons, Chair of the Board for Printed Matter, Inc., said: “The NY Art Book Fair remains the premier venue to find what’s new in art publishing. This year’s focus on artists’ photography books, and the addition of more than 60 zinesters in an outdoor tent, will make this year’s edition of the Fair the best so far.”

16,500 people attended The NY Art Book Fair 2010, the last edition of this favorite meeting place for book collectors, dealers, artists, curators, independent publishers, and other art enthusiasts.

The NY Art Book Fair 2011 will include special projects, screenings, book signings, and performances, throughout the weekend. The Classroom—a curated series of artist-led workshops, readings, and discussions—and the fifth annual Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference—a dynamic, two-day symposium on emerging practices and debates within art-book culture—will engage visitors in lively conversation all weekend long.

HOURS AND LOCATION
The NY Art Book Fair is free and open to the public.

Preview: Thursday, September 29, 6 pm–9 pm
Friday, September 30, 11 am–7 pm
Saturday, October 1, 11 am–7 pm
Sunday, October 2, 11 am–7 pm

MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Avenue
Long Island City, NY (map)

FUNDRAISING EDITIONS
Printed Matter is pleased to present four new editions to benefit the NY Art Book Fair, now available online:

Harmony Korine, Ho Ho Suck
Marc Hundley, Dictionary
Nick Relph, Home
Colter Jacobsen with THE THING Quarterly, Drawn Inward

For more information, call (212) 925-0325 or write shannon@printedmatter.org.

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