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January 5-31, 2012

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Michalis Pichler
January 5-31, 2012
Berlin: Greatest hits, 2012.
[12 p.]
21 x 17,5 cm.
400 exemplares.
xerografia

In 1969 Seth Siegelaub organized an exhibition (and publication) with the title January 5 – 31, 1969, one of the first exhibition projects of conceptual art, with the participation of Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth and Lawrence Weiner.

Back then there was already talking about a so-called “linguistic turn” that had been taken place in the visual arts and in consequence led to idea art. Nevertheless one could hardly deny, that those artistic/poetic strategies are being reused and radicalised around the turn of the millennium and recently.

January 5 – 31, 2012 is gathering some of these positions, presenting Craig Dworkin, Kenneth Goldsmith Jonathan Monk and Michalis Pichler.

http://www.g-r-e-a-t-e-s-t-h-i-t-s.com/index_en.html

& Milk

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Jonathan Monk
& Milk: Today is Just a Copy of Yesterday
Wein, Austria : Schelbrügge / Grazer Kunstverein, 2004
Textos em alemão e inglês
offset-printed, sewn bound
color
15 x 22,7 cm.
[64] p.
800 ex.
ISBN 3851600363

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Em um jogo com o clássico livro de artista de Edward Ruscha, Various Small Fires and Milk, um copo de leite é o assunto demonstrativo deste pequeno livro. Uma imagem inicial do copo foi copiada, uma cópia foi feita da cópia, e assim por diante, até atingir 51 gerações do original. A questão se torna complicada quando uma imagem é feita a partir de outra; novas condições e padrões emergem que dificilmente podem ser antecipados. Com cada geração, a reprodução perde algumas informações, as cores mudam, a definição e a resolução podem sofrer, e até mesmo a própria área de imagem começa a mudar. & Milk é uma peça fascinante, bem como um flipbook divertido que agrada a qualquer pessoa interessada em questões de regeneração, duplicação, temporalidade ou gosta de trabalhos que jogam com a obra de Ruscha. Ensaio de Fotolabor Kadmon em Alemão e Inglês.

In a play on the classic artist’s book by Edward Ruscha, Various Small Fires and Milk, a glass of milk is the demonstrative subject of this little book. An initial slide of the glass was duplicated, a duplicate was made of that duplicate, and so on, until there were 51 generations of the original. Matters become complicated when one slide is made from another; new conditions and patterns emerge that can hardly be anticipated. With each generation, the reproduction loses some information, the colors change, definition and resolution suffer, and even the image area itself begins to change. & Milk is a fascinating piece, as well as a fun flip book that appeals to anyone interested in matters of regeneration, duplication, temporality or enjoys plays on Ruscha’s work. Essay by Fotolabor Kadmon in German and English.

Fonte das imagens: http://artistsbooks.info/

Cover Version

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Jonathan Monk (Inglaterra, 1969)
Cover Version
London: Book Works, 2004
Offset
Full colour; 138 p.
Soft cover, wire stitched
Design: Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié
19,7 x 15,8 cm
1.000 ex. com três capas diferentes (preço em dólar, euro ou libras esterlinas)
ISBN: 978 1 870699 74 7

‘For me, it’s like buying gifts for myself and some are really fantastic: occasionally I am really amazed by what I have bought when it arrives, as often the catalogue description does not do justice to the physical object itself.’ Jonathan Monk

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Jonathan Monk is an artist who loves other artists. His work draws on oblique autobiographical references and personal anecdotes together with art historical strategies and legacies to express a critical camaraderie in his subject. Cover Version features a selection of seminal publications from Monk’s extensive collection of artists’ books. Sol Le Witt, Lawrence Weiner and Ed Ruscha are represented side by side to form a cogent series, which presents a contemporary investigation into materiality and the problems of signification in conceptual art publishing. An integral section of Cover Version is a transcribed telephone conversation between Jonathan Monk and Seth Siegelaub, which unfolds and discusses their mutual obsession with book making and collecting whilst speculating on the nature of the object. This ‘collectable’ book also has three different covers designed with its monetary value in euros, dollars and pounds, a direct reference to Lawrence Weiner’s 1968 publication Statements.

Fonte: https://www.bookworks.org.uk/node/105