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One Swimming Pool
I’m working on an Ed Ruscha inspired book installation that will be shown at the upcoming show ‘Ed Ruscha Books & Co’ at the Gagosian gallery in NYC (Madison Ave branch; documentation and artist proof portfolio will be shown).
The pictures below are production shots of a smaller B&W maquette. The final size will be 6.3 x 6.3 meters.
The project is based on Ruscha’s book Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass from 1968. One of the pictures from that book was photographed and subsequently enlarged to the size of a small swimming pool. The pool consists of 1575 sheets, or 3150 pages. The size of these sheets is based on the size of Ruscha’s book. A small edition is planned of a set of twelve books containing all sheets in full-colour: One Swimming Pool in Twelve Volumes. The idea is to have a swimming pool that can be kept in a bookcase; also sheets can be taken out and used to recreate the installation.
De zee is groen
In the project ‘Uitgeschreven ruimte’ commissioned by BKKC in Tilburg, The Netherlands, artist Geert-Jan van Oostende and I realized an 11 meters long work on cloth. The project was an experiment in having poets and artists work together on creating a new work for the public space. It was funded by the Mondrian Fund and the Dutch foundation for literature. There is an exhibition of all the works created until January 27, and this specific work will remain on view permanently. Here is a view of sketch design and final work in situ. We were asked to make a work for the windows at the BKKC building and decided to stress a sense of surface without depth in both text and image. The text is my poem ‘De zee is groen’ composed around visual information from a Suske en Wiske comic book, the image is a shape created from the surface of Van Oostende’s working table.
Local Colour
Local Colour: Ghosts, variations (published December 2012) is a collaboration between In Edit Mode Press and Canadian poet Derek Beaulieu. Points of departure are Paul Auster’s novella Ghosts and, in particular, Derek Beaulieu’s reworking of Auster’s text, Local Colour. It can be ordered here.
Contributions:
Derek Beaulieu, Local Colour (printed book)
Steve Giasson, Couleur locale (printed book)
Cia Rinne, Securiousity (printed booklet)
Peder Alexis Olsson, Edited Retinas (print)
Jörgen Gassilewski, After Image (print)
Craig Dworkin, Unseen Colour (print)
Elisabeth Tonnard, Monochromatic Bits (print)
Martin Glaz Serup, Local Colour (printed book)
Eric Zboya, Untitled # 1 & 2 (Local Colour) (prints)
Ola Ståhl, Colour’s Gravity (printed book and prints)
Pär Thörn, Sound Interpretation of Derek Beaulieu’s ‘Local Colour’(sound piece)
Cecilie Bjørgås Jordheim, First of all there is Blue (sound piece)
Ola Lindefelt, Spectral Quantum (sound piece)
Andreas Kurtsson, Voice Range, Dialect Genre (sound piece)
Helen White, Local Ghosts (sound piece)
Gary Barwin, Local Colour (sound piece)
Ola Ståhl & Carl Lindh, Ghosts (Music Box) (sound piece)
Magda Tyzlik-Carver & Andy Prior, Ghost Machine (software, booklet and video)
Talk at Düsseldorf Photobook Salon
On February 3rd, 1PM, I will give a presentation about my work at the NRW-Forum, Ehrenhof 2, 40479 Düsseldorf. The presentation is part of the Düsseldorf Photobook Salon, curated by Jeff Ladd and Stefanie Armbruster. ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative will have a table at this Salon, you can see my books there too. The Photobook Salon will consist of a book marketplace, book signings, book launches, lectures and an exhibition of books by the American photographer Stephen Shore. Opening hours: Friday, February 1st from 19:00-0.00, Saturday, February 2nd and Sunday, February 3rd from 11:00-19:00.
Being there and not being there
A new initiative by ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative: curated sets of books from its entire catalogue. I was pleased to make the first one and introduce five wonderful books in relation to each other. Read about this set here.
The Man of the Crowd
The Man of the Crowd is a reflection on a short story by Edgar Allan Poe and a street occurrence that I photographed in Paris. The main part of the work is a series of 56 photographs, tracking a 21st century flâneur, followed by imagetexts based on linguistic analyses of Poe’s story. Each book is marked with a distinct word from Poe’s story, which limits the edition to the number of different words in the tale. Published November 2012.
Elisabeth Tonnard 