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KOOBOOKARCHIVE/Lab_KA
Künstlerbücher aus dem KoobookArchive
Curator Anna Guillot
Texts Giovanni Fontana Anna Guillot Gisela
Weimann
RARE Office, Helmerdingstraße, 4 Berlin
11/17 June 2012
Francesco
Arena | John Baldessari | Lolly Batty | Mirella
Bentivoglio | Christian Boltanski | Christophe Boutin | Sophie Calle | Maurizio Cattelan | Rodion
Cherniewsky | Dominique De Beir | Thierry De Cordier | Caroline Duchatelet | Olafur Eliasson | Flavio Favelli | Peter
Fischli & David Weiss | Giovanni
Fontana | Delio Gennai | Alice Grassi | Anna Guillot | Damien Hirst
| Roni Horn | Mikhail Karasik | Guy Lemonnier | Armin Linke
| Ürs Luthi | Hilde Margani-Escher | Christian Philipp Müller | Julian Opie | Mikhail Pogarsky | Pipilotti
Rist | Marinella Senatore | Ettore Spalletti | Jan Vercruysse | Luca
Vitone | Andy Warhol | Erwin Wurm
The generic label of ‘artist book’ is given out of convenience to
those artistic productions ‘in book form’ that have nothing to do with the
traditional book. It indicates a particular type of art aimed at the entire
re-invention (images, words, media, formats, design) of the space-time place of
the book (space-page/time-sequence).
Nothing else but one of the multiple
facets of contemporary art.
Widely increased in the last 50
years, this genre has seen - and is seeing ever more so – the active interest
of international artists of the calibre of John Baldessari, Joseph Kosuth,
Dieter Roth, Ed Ruscha and Damien Hirst. It is about a special form of art that
strongly incites experimentation and intrigues the market, which he is able to
stimulate interest in collecting, archiving and study.
The exhibition Künstlerbücher aus dem KoobookArchive
that gathers together an important and amusing sampling of books coming from
the collection of the KoobookArchive/Lab_KA of Catania (Italy), is witness to
the vitality of this field.
The KoobookArchive/Lab_KA
(archive-workshop of the artist’s book), conceived and managed by Anna Guillot
- artist and teacher in the field of the book as well as the curator of the
show – has been undertaking the promotion and research into this sector in
recent years in Italy.
For consultation: www.koobookarchive.blogspot.com
RARE Office
Helmerdingstraße 4 D-10245 Berlin
Helmerdingstraße 4 D-10245 Berlin
+49 (0)1776407207
KoobookArchive/Lab_KA
Piazza Manganelli 16 I-95131 Catania
