Exhibition Reading Room
Tonight is the opening for ‘Reading Room’, at the Owens Art Gallery. The exhibition presents artists’ books and book-like objects by Canadian and international artists. Through intervention, alteration and re-presentation the artists in the exhibition draw attention to how we read, understand, and interact with books. The exhibition includes works by Kristen Atkins, Amelia Bird, Adam David Brown, Michael Dumontier, Lucy Harrison, Emmanuelle Jacques, Micah Lexier, Heidi Neilson, Dave Dyment and Roula Partheniou, Karen Reimer, and Elisabeth Tonnard.
Curated by Kirsty Bell and Lucy MacDonald and produced with the support of the Canada Council of the Arts. The show runs until February 8.
Stedelijk Museum book fair
In the weekend of January 17 and 18, I’ll be participating in the new book fair at the Stedelijk. You’ll find my books and me at the table I am sharing with Joachim Schmid.
Location:
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, ABN Amro gallery (basement of the ‘bathtub’)
Hours:
17 – 18 January 2014
Saturday 12 – 6 pm
Sunday 10 am – 6 pm
On Sunday at 1 pm there will be a speed tour of my work in the exhibition On The Move: Storytelling in Contemporary Photography and Graphic Design. The fair includes a special selection of art books from this show as well as tours and booksignings by participating artists.
Performance 3 at the Stedelijk Museum
This coming Saturday, December 27, I will install One Swimming Pool on the floor of the Teijin auditorium at the Stedelijk Museum. Visit the auditorium between 10 am – 6 pm and watch the pool as it appears. Note this is a one day event, and the final in a series of three such demonstrations. It is connected to the exhibition On the Move. The swimming pool will remain on view in the auditorium during the weekend. More info on the website of the Stedelijk.
Holiday recommendation
Sarah Bodman of the Centre for Fine Print Research at UWE Bristol chose my newest book Wiederholungszwang as her holiday recommendation this year on the Artists’ Books and Multiples blog. You can read her post here. Meanwhile there also seems to be a nice gift available for under your invisible Christmas tree here.
Best books 2014 on Photoeye
The J&L edition of In this Dark Wood was selected by Ruth van Beek for her Best Books of 2014 list on Photoeye. See the list and the many other lists here.
Article in Streven
In the December issue of Streven magazine, literary scholar Jack van der Weide discusses my work by looking at four very different books I published. The article is in Dutch. Read it in Streven cultureel maatschappelijk maandblad, year 81/number 11, or here.
Guided tour at Van Abbe
On December 21 there will be a short tour through my exhibition Elisabeth Tonnard Artists’ Books 2003-2014 at the Van Abbe museum. I’ll highlight a few themes in my work. It starts at 1 pm in the library and ends at 3 in the DIY archive (where a selection of books will be available for closer inspection). You can sign up here.
One Swimming Pool in One Minute
Tetsuro Miyazaki made a timelapse of my installation of One Swimming Pool at the Stedelijk Museum on November 29. Click here to see it (scroll down on the page). The next, and final, installation in the auditorium of the Stedelijk will be on December 27. The installation takes a day to complete, but will remain on view December 28 as well.
Article in de Volkskrant
Connected to the current show at Van Abbe, de Volkskrant published an article by Merel Bem about my bookworks today. The article is in Dutch. Click the image to enlarge.
Small Press Fair at Paradiso, Amsterdam
Next week I’ll be participating in the Beurs van Bijzondere Uitgevers, a small press fair for literature and artists’ books that takes place yearly at Paradiso in Amsterdam. You’ll find my table right at the entrance when you walk into the main room on the ground floor. Also some of my poetry books that were published by Druksel will be available at the fair. Druksel’s table is in front of the stage.
Location:
Paradiso,
Weteringschans 6-8, Amsterdam
Hours:
7 December 2014
1 – 5 pm
Admission is €3,-
Elisabeth Tonnard 