B

11.09 - 30.09.19

Private View: Tuesday 10.09.19, 6 - 8pm

Belmacz is pleased to present an exhibition dedicated to artist publications. With:

20th Century Art Archives
Abbas Zahedi
Agata Madejska 
Alaa Abu Asad & Ulufer Çelik 
Anastasia Pavlou 
Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin 
Belmacz 
Black Pages 
Camilla Løw 
Caragh Thuring 
Carla Åhlander 
Charlott Weise & Franziska Schulz 
Claudia Kugler 
Coco Crampton 
Daniel Ferstl 
David Tremlett 
Diagonal Press 
Elisabeth Molin 
Emma McCormick-Goodhart 
Fehras Publishing Practices 
Georgia Sowerby 
Gernot Wieland
Gregorio Magnani
Guilherme Dable
Hanna Mattes
Hansjörg Meyer
Joel Tomlin
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger
Kellenberger-White
KOSA & Marius Engh
Liam Tickner
Lina Viste Grønli
Long Distance Press
Marco Bruzzone
Michalis Pichler
Michela de Mattei
Mikael Brkic
Morten Skrøder Lund
Nicole Wermers
Null Zero
Oskar Korsár
Paul Housley
Paul Kindersley
Philipp Fleischmann 
Postcard Teas
Ricardo de Carli
Rorhof
Rowena Hughes
Salvatore Viviano
Sam Austen
Samuel Stokes
saxpublishers
Simon Popper
Slavs & Tatars
Sophie Nys
Steph Huang
Telfer Stokes
The Everyday Press
Tim Berresheim

B is for Book, and in the Beginning was the word. The written word, and then the printed word; and now, the digital word.
Since the scroll became a codex in late Antiquity, artists have been associated with the published word. The illuminated manuscript stirred curlicue lettering and gilded marginalia and the artist publication is a slippery mutation of this - an ongoing investigation into the gap between visual and written language, existing outside thetic categories.
Often self-published, produced single-handedly or through a small press - B brings together pieces which reference the thingliness of the book without being confined to seriality or sequence. B marks both the collaborative and the singular, where processes and materials can consist of reams of A4 from a photocopier, stapled shut to the letter pressed and hand bound. B cuts out the middle-man.
B is an opposition to the muscular catalogue raisonné - all fur coat and no knickers. These objects are space for both the hidden and the seen; they are to be unpacked, unfolded, unfurled - offering a spine to crack or a continuous concertina - turned upside down, inside out, read between the lines. Laconic or verbose - an invitation to misunderstand in the age of Information is Power.
B is a presentation of objects which could be bought or could be given away. Objects which could be collected, displayed, stored, hoarded, boxed.
But B is also a presentation of viral objects sent out to the world, left on the tube or given to a friend who might be interested - love notes. 

Georgia Sowerby, 2019

A diverse program of  readings, book launches and workshops is accompanying the exhibition.
See @belmaczmayfair for schedules