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Exhibition RE: Follow-ed
My book Recounted is currently on view in Re: Follow-ed (after Hokusai), an exhibition curated by Tom Sowden and Michalis Pichler at the Cabinet du livre d’artiste in Rennes. The show runs from September 28 to December 3, 2015. You can find the invitation here.
Oceanus, new print
I’ve made a new print run of my book Oceanus which had gone out of availability. For this print run a few typographical changes were introduced, plus the cover is now in black and white and no longer laminated. The whole book is now also printed on a 100% recycled paper stock which gives a new expression to the work and moreover qualifies for both the ISO 9706 norm for longevity and the Blue Angel environmental label.
To celebrate, there is a new reduced price, you can purchase the book now at €35,- plus shipping. Note that due to travel orders will be sent out in the beginning of October. I’ll have a few copies of the book available at my table at the New York Art Book Fair next week.
Read more about the book here.
Let us read less
Let us go then, you and I made an appearance in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, in an article by Magnus Wieland on literary appropriation. The article can be read here.
List of available books at the New York Art Book Fair
I’ve made a pdf catalogue of the books and editions I’ll bring to this year’s New York Art Book Fair. It presents the books in alphabetical order and contains the current USD prices. Open by clicking this link.
The New York Art Book Fair
The tenth edition of the New York Art Book Fair will be held at MoMA PS1 from September 17-20. For the third year in a row I’m sharing a table with Joachim Schmid. We both published a number of books since last year and look forward to presenting them. New titles I’ll bring to the fair include: Wiederholungszwang, The Lovers, Husch!, Mein Buch and Tischblumenbilder. Find a pdf catalogue of what will be available here.
We’ll be in the big room on the 2nd floor this year, the table number is N42. For practicalities visit: http://nyartbookfair.com/about/
Discussion of four books
Johan Velter discusses my four recent publications on his sfcdt blog. The text is in Dutch and can be read here.
Talk at Picture Berlin
Next week I’ll give a presentation about my work in the context of Picture Berlin.
Time: July 22 at 8.30 pm.
Location: tête, Schönhauser Allee 161A, 10435 Berlin.
This talk is free and open to everyone.
Tischblumenbilder
Tischblumenbilder (‘Tableflowerpictures’) is the third and final of my recent publications in German. It reflects on the declension of adjectives in the German language (or as Mark Twain would say, ‘The Awful German Language’). The book consists of words found in an instruction table that presented declensions of three nouns with adjectives. I stamped these phrases by hand, thereby causing fluctuations from phrase to phrase and from booklet to booklet, mimicking the constant flow of word form variations that German presents due to the required identification of grammatical case, number and gender. The pairing of two phrases on each page also causes subtle shifts of meaning.
Realized at Künstlerhaus Bethanien during a residency awarded by the Mondriaan Fonds.
Stamped with archival black ink, booklet size 11 x 19 cm, 24 pages.
Edition limited to 50 numbered copies.
Priced at € 24,- plus shipping. See some images here.
Published in Berlin, 2015.
Husch!
Another recent publication in German, Husch! is a small book containing two poems composed from sentences found in a grammar book (Hermann Sanders’ Kurzgefaßtes Lehrbuch der Deutschen Sprache für Chinesen which was first published in 1922). The first poem is titled ‘Was ich weiss’ (What I know), the second poem is ‘Das Wetter’ (The Weather). Each page carries only one line and the lines move about the pages in a free manner.
Published in Berlin, June 2015.
Edition of 65 numbered copies. Black & white printing, perfect bound paperback. Size 10.5 x 14.8 cm, 84 pages.
Priced at € 18,- plus shipping. See some images here.
Mein Buch
Another new book that I released is Mein Buch (‘my book’). It reflects on the declension of possessive pronouns in the German language and consists of stamped words which are all declensions of the word ‘mein’ (German for ‘my’ or ‘mine’). The stamping causes fluctuations from word to word and from booklet to booklet, mimicking the constant (and to the novice learner bewildering) flow of word form variations that German presents due to the required identification of grammatical case, number and gender.
Realized at Künstlerhaus Bethanien during a residency awarded by the Mondriaan Fonds.
Stamped with archival black ink, booklet size 11 x 19 cm, 24 pages.
Edition limited to 50 numbered copies.
Priced at € 24,- plus shipping. See some images here.
Published in Berlin, 2015.
Elisabeth Tonnard 