Posts Tagged ‘“artist book”’
Song of Myself
I celebrate myself, and sing myself
My book Song of Myself: American Renaissance launches on December 11. The book consists of texts collected from the Facebook pages of Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman.
It is available as a small pocket book priced at €15,- and as a special edition that can also be used for exhibition. The image above is taken of an installation of the latter at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin where the book will launch at Friends with Books.
The special edition consists of 58 inkjet printed sheets at A3 size in an archival folder. There are seven copies plus one artist proof. In the colophon each of the seven copies is associated with one of the poets that appear in the project, i.e. there is Edgar Allan Poe’s copy, Emily Dickinson’s, Henry David Thoreau’s, Herman Melville’s, etcetera. If you are ordering the edition you can choose which copy you’d like (check if it’s still available). The edition is priced at €745,-
More images and information can be found here.
Order the book through my webshop or by email.
Order the special edition through my webshop or by email.
The project will be exhibited at the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam from January 24 – May 8 in the exhibition Quickscan.
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.
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.
The Lovers
I published a new book titled The Lovers. It is based around screenshots that were made while watching ‘Discarded: Joachim Schmid and the Anti-Museum,’ a video about Joachim Schmid’s work, realized by the Hillman Photography Initiative at the Carnegie Museum of Art in 2014. At one point in this documentary Schmid is at a flea market in Berlin, looking through a pile of junked photographs. For a brief moment his perusal and the movements of his hands caused the stack to tell a story.
Full color digital printing, 24 page stapled brochure, size 21 x 28 cm, in enclosure size 23 x 32 cm.
Edition limited to 100 numbered copies.
Priced at € 28,- plus shipping. See some images here.
Published in Berlin, 2015.
On press
Today is stamping day for the first of two new books that were inspired by my confusions with regards to German grammar. Japanese ink meets Italian paper in an expression of German grammar through stamps cut in the UK. The books will be launched at Miss Read in Berlin June 26-28. For more info see Mein Buch and Tischblumenbilder.
Miss Read in Berlin
From June 26-28 I’m participating in Miss Read.
You’ll find my books and me at the table I am sharing with Joachim Schmid. I’ll be launching a new publication titled The Lovers, and three new books in German that proceeded from my residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien: Husch!, Mein Buch and Tischblumenbilder.
Location:
Akademie der Künste
Hanseatenweg 10, Halle 1 & 2
10557 Berlin
Opening hours
Friday, June 26th, 5 to 9pm
Saturday, June 27th, noon to 9pm
Sunday, June 28th, noon to 7pm
Shine On
In celebration of World Book Night 2015 this film showing miniature models made in response to Stephen King’s book The Shining was made at the Centre for Fine Print Research in Bristol. A book of the project is also forthcoming. An overview of models here.
Model Makers: Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck, Craig Atkinson, Sarah Bodman, Angie Butler, Si Butler, Nancy Campbell, Anna Cooper, Jeremy Dixon, Lilla Duignan, Sara Elgerot/Rare Autumn, Su Fahy, Hazel Grainger, Charlotte Hall, Paul Laidler, Pauline Lamont-Fisher, Gwen Simpson, Simon Smith, Tom Sowden, Angela Thames, Elisabeth Tonnard, Stephanie Turnbull, Corinne Welch, Linda Williams, Philippa Wood, Clare Wyatt.
Exhibition Sequence I
The exhibition Sequence I aims to show Dutch artists’ books in an international context. It draws from the collections of the Groninger Museum and private collector Henk Woudsma and is curated by Henk Woudsma, Rein Jelle Terpstra and Barthold Boksem. See the invite here and a list of works on view here.
On view at Academie Minerva in Groningen, The Netherlands, from March 12 – 27.
Elisabeth Tonnard 