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Exposition littéraire autour de Mallarmé, recalls an exhibition of the same name by Marcel Broodthaers in 1969 at Wide White Space in Antwerp, Belgium. The exhibition is centered around re-readings and re-writings of Un Coup de Dés Jamais N’Abolira Le Hasard across different media, around that icon of the avant-garde. The exhibition will be a 1-on-1 appropriation of a historical exhibition, hence a “greatest hit” in its own right.
Coup de Dés (Collection) unites a vast number of editions of Mallarmé’s chef d’oeuvre as well as many of its historical and contemporary editions and appropriations by other authors such as Claude Balif, Fritz Balthaus, Derek Beaulieu, Jérémie Bennequin, Christopher Brennan, Marcel Broodthaers, Bernard Chiavelli, Jim Clinefelter, Lucien Desalmand, Mario Diacono, Sammy Engramer, Marie Louise Erlenmeyer, Cerith Wyn Evans, Ernest Fraenkel, Rodney Graham, Paul Heimbach, Angela Grasser, Barry Guy, Felix Philipp Ingold, La Bibliothèque Fantastique, Brian Larosche, Alexandra Leykauf, Benjamin Lord, Stéphane Mallarmé, Michael Maranda, Guido Molinari, Monchas, Francoise Morel, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Aurélie Noury, Michalis Pichler, Henri Pousseur, Nicolas Richard, Mitsou Ronat, Sam Sampson, Camille Soula, Ultralab, Klara Vith, and Eric Zboya.
The collection also includes a variety of publications (backgammon tutorials, pulp fiction, and militaria books) that feature the phrase “Coup de Dés” on the cover without explicitly referring to Mallarmé. Coup de Dés (Collection) is ongoing and subject to open submission.
The exhibition includes Un Coup de Dés Jamais N’abolira Le HasardSCULPTURE, a close copy of the 1914 edition of Stéphane Mallarmé’s poem, but with all the words cut out by laser, in a way that corresponds directly to the typographic layout used by Mallarmé. When turning the pages, numerous shadows are generated by the cutouts. Pichler’s version is juxtaposed with editions by Broodthaers and Mallarmé, who had written Un Coup de Dés jamais n’abolira le Hasard. POÈME in 1897, and also saw it published in a magazine called Cosmopolis. Mallarmé left copious notes as to how it should be typeset, instructions that were finally carried out 16 years after his death, in 1914. In 1969 this work was appropriated in three renditions as Un Coup de Dés Jamais N’abolira Le Hasard. IMAGE by Marcel Broodthaers, who replaced the words by black stripes.
A glass version of Un Coup de Dés jamais n’abolira le Hasard. SCULPTUREis installed in the airspace of the gallery as a spatial installation or walk-through book, even though there is no text displayed on the plates. Through its “strategic illegibility,” it seems to establish what Jacques Derrida would call “a text, that is, a readability without a signified”.
Somewhere in the gallery, a player piano rocks away with a that somehow resembles aleatoric music. The turn-of-the-century pianola is indeed playing Un Coup de Dés Jamais N’abolira le Hasard. MUSIQUE, created by running a 288mm tracker roll of Pichler’s cut-out windows/verses.
The exhibition is accompanied by a Catalog with texts by Craig Dworkin, Annette Gilbert, Luc Boltanski, Arnaud Esquerre, Ryoko Sekiguchi, and Michalis Pichler, and reproductions of the works, co-published by Center for Book Arts and Spector Books in Germany.
“Review of “COUP DE DÉS (COLLECTION)”” by Robert Bolick on BooksonBooks: https://books-on-books.com/2024/03/19/review-of-coup-de-des-collection/
Exposition littéraire autour de Mallarmé, recalls an exhibition of the same name by Marcel Broodthaers in 1969 at Wide White Space in Antwerp, Belgium. The exhibition is centered around re-readings and re-writings of Un Coup de Dés Jamais N’Abolira Le Hasard across different media, around that icon of the avant-garde. The exhibition will be a 1-on-1 appropriation of a historical exhibition, hence a “greatest hit” in its own right.
Coup de Dés (Collection) unites a vast number of editions of Mallarmé’s chef d’oeuvre as well as many of its historical and contemporary editions and appropriations by other authors such as Claude Balif, Fritz Balthaus, Derek Beaulieu, Jérémie Bennequin, Christopher Brennan, Marcel Broodthaers, Bernard Chiavelli, Jim Clinefelter, Lucien Desalmand, Mario Diacono, Sammy Engramer, Marie Louise Erlenmeyer, Cerith Wyn Evans, Ernest Fraenkel, Rodney Graham, Paul Heimbach, Angela Grasser, Barry Guy, Felix Philipp Ingold, La Bibliothèque Fantastique, Brian Larosche, Alexandra Leykauf, Benjamin Lord, Stéphane Mallarmé, Michael Maranda, Guido Molinari, Monchas, Francoise Morel, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Aurélie Noury, Michalis Pichler, Henri Pousseur, Nicolas Richard, Mitsou Ronat, Sam Sampson, Camille Soula, Ultralab, Klara Vith, and Eric Zboya.
The collection also includes a variety of publications (backgammon tutorials, pulp fiction, and militaria books) that feature the phrase “Coup de Dés” on the cover without explicitly referring to Mallarmé. Coup de Dés (Collection) is ongoing and subject to open submission.
The exhibition includes Un Coup de Dés Jamais N’abolira Le HasardSCULPTURE, a close copy of the 1914 edition of Stéphane Mallarmé’s poem, but with all the words cut out by laser, in a way that corresponds directly to the typographic layout used by Mallarmé. When turning the pages, numerous shadows are generated by the cutouts. Pichler’s version is juxtaposed with editions by Broodthaers and Mallarmé, who had written Un Coup de Dés jamais n’abolira le Hasard. POÈME in 1897, and also saw it published in a magazine called Cosmopolis. Mallarmé left copious notes as to how it should be typeset, instructions that were finally carried out 16 years after his death, in 1914. In 1969 this work was appropriated in three renditions as Un Coup de Dés Jamais N’abolira Le Hasard. IMAGE by Marcel Broodthaers, who replaced the words by black stripes.
A glass version of Un Coup de Dés jamais n’abolira le Hasard. SCULPTUREis installed in the airspace of the gallery as a spatial installation or walk-through book, even though there is no text displayed on the plates. Through its “strategic illegibility,” it seems to establish what Jacques Derrida would call “a text, that is, a readability without a signified”.
Somewhere in the gallery, a player piano rocks away with a that somehow resembles aleatoric music. The turn-of-the-century pianola is indeed playing Un Coup de Dés Jamais N’abolira le Hasard. MUSIQUE, created by running a 288mm tracker roll of Pichler’s cut-out windows/verses.
The exhibition is accompanied by a Catalog with texts by Craig Dworkin, Annette Gilbert, Luc Boltanski, Arnaud Esquerre, Ryoko Sekiguchi, and Michalis Pichler, and reproductions of the works, co-published by Center for Book Arts and Spector Books in Germany.
“Review of “COUP DE DÉS (COLLECTION)”” by Robert Bolick on BooksonBooks: https://books-on-books.com/2024/03/19/review-of-coup-de-des-collection/
The sixth edition of Focal Point, Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual art book fair showcasing a selection of printed material by more than 100 participants, takes place from 24 to 26 November 2023 at Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, a heritage house in Sharjah’s historical district. Featuring artists’ presses, bookmakers, self-publishers and non-commercial cultural producers, this year’s edition encourages the community to engage with independent publishing and the central role of books as tools for social mobilisation and the development of a free and just world.
Focal Point will also feature workshops on reading, libraries and zine making as well as activities exploring resources on Palestine and the significance of global liberation struggles. Some of the highlights include the release of new books published by the Foundation, Risograph live print station in partnership with Fikra Design Studio and a selection of graphic novels and manga curated by the UAE book retailer Kinokuniya.
During the fair, the Foundation will announce the recipients of the 2023 Publishing Grant, together with the launch of winning publications and research projects from the previous year’s grant cycle. For this year’s grant, a total of 30,000 USD, including publishing and distribution support will be awarded to multiple grantees. Inaugurated in 2018, Focal Point places a special focus on UAE-based publishers and functions as a critical space for knowledge sharing and community building.
The sixth edition of Focal Point consists of three main sections: - International (works from art and independent publishers in the international art community) - Edit (curated publications and special interest books not distributed by local retailers) - Local (publications from within the UAE’s arts community)
Details about each section as well as more information about this edition’s programming and grants follow below:
Focal Point International Section
In the International Section, art and independent publishers from around the world showcase and distribute their books within the global publishing community. This year’s international exhibitors are:
89books (Palermo), Afrikaada (Paris/Dakar), Bad Student (Manila), Bao Books (Tunis), BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY (Bangkok), Binatang Press (Jakarta), Cairo Art Book Fair (Cairo), Cráter Invertido (Mexico City), ElHarf Publications (Amman), MASP - Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (São Paulo), Michalis Pichler (Berlin), Miss Read: The Berlin Art Book and Fair (Berlin), Mkuki Na Nyoti (Dar es Salaam), Nepal Picture Library (Kathmandu), Panther's Paw Publications (Nagpur), Primary Information (New York), Recreo: Valencia Art Book Fair (Valencia), Savvy Contemporary (Berlin), shashasha (Tokyo), SOCCOCHICO (London/Geneva), Suburbia Projects (Petaling Jaya), Tara Books (Chennai), Temporary Press (Singapore), Think Tanger (Tangier), Vasl Artists’ Association (Karachi), Waraq (Beirut), Zine Coop (Hong Kong)
Focal Point Edit Section
In the Edit Section, Focal Point presents a curated selection of art journals, magazines, comics and special interest books not distributed by local retailers and bookstores. Exhibitors include:
421 Arts Campus (Abu Dhabi), Afterall (London), Al Hayya Magazine (Beirut/Delaware), Artbook / D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers (New York), Barjeel Art Foundation (Sharjah), bin atiah studio (Riyadh), Black Dog Press (London), Blaft Publications (Chennai), Can Can Press (Mexico City), Carbon12 (Dubai), Diwan Egypt (Cairo), Emirates Fine Arts Society (Sharjah), Gulf Photo Plus (Dubai), Hanoot Store (Baghdad), Idea Books (Amsterdam), Inga Books (Chicago), Jacana Media (Auckland), Kalimat Foundation (Sharjah), Kaph Books (Beirut), Kawon Bookstore (Madaba), Litmus Press (New York), Locale (Abu Dhabi), Machi Mashy (Cairo/Rabat), Maraya Art Centre / 1971 Design Space (Sharjah), Mauzoun Writing & Publishing (Jeddah), Middle East Archive (Amsterdam), Misk Art Institute / Rizzoli: The Art Library (Riyadh), Mizna (Saint Pauls), Moniker Press (Vancouver), Dr Noha Farran (Sharjah), NYUAD al Mawrid Arab Centre for the Study of Art (Abu Dhabi), Pangolin Studio (Zagreb), Raking Leaves (Colombo), Saqi Books (London), Sharjah Commerce & Tourism Development Authority (Sharjah), Sienna Store (Cairo), Sternberg Press (London), Tashkeel (Dubai), te editions (Hong Kong), The Third Line (Dubai), The Chutney Magazine (London), The Funambulist (Paris) Focal Point Local Section
The Local Section spotlights books made by the UAE arts community—cultural institutions, galleries, publishers and nonprofit government cultural entities—as well as printed matter, illustrations, zines, comics, photography, stationery and screenprints produced by independent artists and booths by local retailers. This year’s local exhibitors are:
- Cultural Organisations and Book Retailers
Sharjah Art Foundation, Art Jameel, Kinokuniya, Sharjah Architecture Triennial, The Africa Institute
- UAE-based Artists
A Victorian Clown, Alreem Almannaei, Aysha Al Hamrani, Bayan Samman, Darrel Perkins, Eman AlRaeesi, Fatima Alketbi, Fatima Bahya Assalam, Halo, Hari, Hessa Almarzooqi, Hessa Alzarooni, Hyper House Publishing / Ahmad Makia, Lubna Aziz Omar, Maged Abbas, Mahnoor Bari, Mai Ayman Awwad, Maitha Al Omaira, Mariam Abdullah Al Ali, Mathalan, Medyyah Altamimi, Mitali Sampat, Mohammad Assaad Alhussaini, Mohammed Ameer, Morvarid Mohammad, Mouza Al Hamrani, Natalie Najjar, Noor Al Khamiri, Rasha Dakkak, Sana Haroon Abdulmajeed, Sara Al Khayyal, Shahed Shashaa, Shoug Tariq AlHeloo, Sohaib Nasir, Sondos Eatamadi, SWALIF Collective, Tawfik, Thalath x Mouza, The Noor Creative, Waggish
Focal Point 2023 Programme
As part of the book fair, Focal Point offers a programme of new publication releases from artists, authors and winners of the SAF Publishing Grant. Learning activities for children and families are also part of this year’s programme.
- Book Launches
Guests can attend releases of the Foundation’s latest publications—Corniche and Bait Al Hurma(Arabic and English). The fifth edition of the annual comic anthology Corniche expands on previous editions by sourcing comics and narratives from artists based throughout the GCC region. Contributing artists will share their stories that explore myriad themes, including heritage, science fiction, fantasy, metaphysics, dreams and myths. Bait Al Hurma features a volume of fantasy fiction revolving around the Foundation venue Bait Al Hurma, an old coral reef structure in Al Mureijah that served as a muse for a series of writing workshops. Five writers use the building’s symbolic value to speculate on its interlayered histories, meanings and portals.
- Workshops
Visualising Typographic Form with Riso (Arabic and English): Led by calligrapher, graphic designer and artist Ibrahim Khamayseh, this session will help participants develop their typographic artwork by learning about different calligraphy styles and scripts, as well as explore the most effective way to visualise calligraphic script using the Riso machine.
Put Together a Pop-up Book (Arabic and English): In this session, learners will design an interactive pop-up book using recycled materials, as they become familiar with paper engineering techniques, including methods for crafting dynamic pop-up elements.
Recreate a Book Cover (Arabic and English): Participants can make a cover for a book of their choice. They will be able to create a design that fits the theme of the book, choose an appropriate colour palette to make the title stand out and print their book cover.
Reimagining Library Practices (English): Drawing inspiration from the stages of the water cycle, this workshop will be led by Lubnah Ansari and Haewon Yoon/Seeds Collective. Participants will take part in four creative exercises to explore embodied reading practices and collectively contemplate the historical implications of libraries and texts.
Reading Session and 3D Story Scenes (Arabic and English): Participants will read and listen to a range of interesting stories. After the reading session, they will make a 3D version of a scenario from the story, using coloured paper, markers and other materials.
Experiment with Archival Cooking Zines (Arabic and English): In this workshop, learners will explore hidden treasures in historical cookbooks containing recipes and culinary techniques not commonly used today. Participants are encouraged to bring their own traditional family recipes, photos and illustrations to share with others as they create cooking zines together.
Palestine in Print (English): Participants will produce a personal zine about Palestine under the guidance of Ahmad Makia. As they put together information and images for the work, they will be able to delve into a compilation of open-source files that visualise and tell stories about Palestine, including poems, essays, interviews, illustrations, graphics, police files, newsprint and academic articles.
[EXHIBITION] Michalis Pichler: The Term Artists Book Is Problematic (Pedestal Problem)
June.7 2023 – July.2 2023
Michalis Pichler is a contemporary artist known for his multidisciplinary practice that encompasses visual art, writing, publishing, and curating. He explores themes of language, communication, and the dissemination of information in his works.
The exhibition at Bananafish Gallery Artist’s Book as a Term Is Problematic seeks to challenge the traditional understanding of the term “Artist book” as a static and limited concept, exploring Michalis Pichler’s perspective that the term itself is problematic and restricts the possibilities of book-based artistic practices. Through multimedia installations, text-based sculptures, and performative elements, Pichler blurs the line between literature and visual art. By showcasing Pichler’s decades’ of works which push the boundaries of bookmaking. The exhibition also encourages visitors to reconsider their preconceived notions of what constitutes an artist book.
With "Blank. Raw. Illegible... Artists' Books as Statements (1960-2022)" the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum shows a representative selection of international positions dedicated to the blank book as an artistic medium. The number of 259 artists' books on display, among others by Michael Asher, Luciano Bartolini, Irma Blank, Marcel Broodthaers, Ulises Carrión, Olafur Eliasson, Ryan Gander, Dora Garcia, Martin Kippenberger, Sara MacKillop, Piero Manzoni, Bruce Nauman, Olaf Nicolai, Ed Ruscha, Simon Starling, and Heimo Zobernig refers to the legendary exhibition "Book as Artwork 1960/72" curated by Germano Celant and Lynda Morris, but the selection focuses exclusively on the qualities of blank, raw, illegible, empty, unprinted, tautological, hermetic, dysfunctional, and mysterious.
Curated by curator, editor, and collector Moritz Küng, the exhibition explores how contemporary artists and artist collectives exploit and activate the conceptual potential of a blank sheet of paper or a book with empty pages for their artistic practice. In the process, the empty, non-existent, and invisible become meaningful, and the refusal of legibility in the conventional sense becomes a telling statement. A seemingly absent content reveals a multitude of unexpected perspectives on conventions of communication and themes of speechlessness, origin, and disappearance. Starting with a significant exploration by artist Herman de Vries of the designation of the color white, the exhibition opens up the diversity of artistic concepts in reflecting on emptiness, purity, and raw material in relation to the formal and functional criteria of books in 15 chapters, the headings of each of which are taken from one of their book titles.
Participating artists:
Åbäke, Ignasí Aballi, Bill Adler, Kasper Andreasen, anonym [3], Federico Antonini & Alessio D’Ellena, Michael Asher, Fiona Banner, Robert Barry, Luciano Bartolini, Alexis Beauclair, Walter Beckers, Jérémie Bennequin, Pierre Bismuth, Irma Blank, Barbara Bloom, Doro Boehme & Eric Baskauskas, Marinus Boezem, Christian Boltanski, Iñaki Bonillas & Roger Willems, Hans Bossmann, Heinz Brand, George Brecht, AA Bronson, Marcel Broodthaers, Evelin Brosi, Joan Brossa, stanley brouwn, Stefan Brüggemann, James Lee Byars, Patrice Caillet, Adam David & Matthieu Saladin, Ulises Carrión, Mariana Castillo Deball, Les Coleman, Mathieu Copeland, Sebastian Cremers, Cremers/Prill/Vieceli, Nicolás Cuestas, Noëlle Cuppens, Simon Cutts, Char Daley, Hanne Darboven, Raúl Dávila & Giulia Paradell, Jeremy Deller & Fraser Muggeridge, Mirtha Dermisache, Arnaud Desjardin, herman de vries, Jason Dodge, Eric Doeringer, Enrique Doza, Hugo Duchateau, Mette Edvardsen & Sonia Si Ahmed, Olafur Eliasson, Paul Elliman, Pieter Engels, Roberto Equisoain, Leif Eriksson, Joseph Ernst, Experimental Jetset, Enric Farrés-Duran, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Robert Filliou, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Michel François, Ken Friedman, Jason Fulford & Tamara Shopsin, Maxime Gambus, Ryan Gander, Heinz Gappmayr, Dora García, Kendell Geers, Nicolas Geiser, Jef Geys, Michael Gibbs, Gloria Glitzer, Keith Godard, Fernanda Gomes, Kristján Gudmundsson, Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Bruce Harris, Paul Heimbach, Jochem Hendricks, Anne Heyvaert, Åke Hodell, Parker Ito, I.T.U. – International Typographical Union, Peter Johansson, Ana Jotta, Jean Keller, Martin Kippenberger, Per Kirkeby, Michael J. Knowles, J.H. Kocman, Katsumi Komagata, Joseph Kosuth, Jarosław Kozłowski, Moritz Küng, Mikko Kuorinki, Frédéric Laé, Paul Laidler, Jürg Lehni, Lemonodo, Jochen Lempert, Craig Leonard, Jeffrey Lew, Sol LeWitt, Micah Lexier, Christos Lialios & Katerina Vazoura, Camille Llobet, Richard Long, Anne Lydiat, George Maciunas, Sara MacKillop, Ilan Manouach, Piero Manzoni, John McDowall, Christian Megert, Felix Meyer, Jonathan Monk, François Morellet, Maurizio Nannucci, Jaime Narváez, Bruce Nauman, Julien Nédélec, Olaf Nicolai, Øystein Wyller Odden, Richard Olson, Willem Oorebeek, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Mark Pawson, A.R. Penck, Ximena Pérez-Grobet, Sergio Pesutic, Michalis Pichler, Simon Popper, Lukas Richarz, Childe Roland, Dieter Roth, Francesc Ruiz, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha, Claude Rutault, Colin Sackett, Emil Salto, Karin Sander, Ed Sanders, Sarkis, Klaus Scherübel, Adrian Schiess, Martin Bruno Schmid, Tomas Schmit, Yann Sérandour, Ariadna Serrahima, Idries Shah, Rachel Mari Simkover, Jessica Smith, Ettore Spalletti, Veronika Spierenburg, Diana Sprenger & Euan Williams, David Stairs, Simon Starling, Mladen Stilinović, Derek Sullivan, Super Terrain, Christophe Terlinden, Nik Thoenen & Lorenzo le kou Meyr, Elisabeth Tonnard, Endre Tót, Timm Ulrichs, Jiří Valoch, Paul van Dijk, Richard Venlet, Oriol Vilanova, Bernard Villers, Martin Vitaliti, Jan Voss, Wolf Vostell, Robin Waart, Dan Walsh, Eric Watier, Russell Weekes, Christiaan Wikkerink, Karen Willey, Ian Wilson, WT Papier, Cerith Wyn Evans, Heimo Zobernig, Rahel Zoller
Eleanor Vonne Brown, Claudia de la Torre, The Infinite Library, Michalis Pichler, Yann Serandour, John Stezaker
VERNISSAGE: May 31st 2023, 7:30 pm
FINISSAGE: June 28th 6:00—8:00 pm
EXHIBITION VIEWING HOURS:
Monday—Saturday 1:00—8:00 pm
Hopscotch Reading Room
Kurfürstenstraße 14b, 10785 Berlin
curated by Claude Closky
with Auteurs anonymes, aalliicceelleessccaannnnee&ssoonniiaaddeerrzzyyppoollsskkii, Martine Aballéa, Etel Adnan, Carla Adra, Laurence Aëgerter, Céline Ahond, Madeleine Aktypi, Jean-Michel Alberola, Roberta Allen, Roberto Altmann, Ghada Amer, Laurie Anderson, Jean-Luc André, Ianna Andréadis, Giovanni Anselmo, Eleanor Antin, Ida Applebroog, Félicia Atkinson, Gábor Attalai, Michel Aubry, John Baldessari, Gianfranco Baruchello, Lolly Batty, Didier Bay, David Bellingham, Jean-Marc Berguel, Suzanne Bernard, John Bevis, Biefer & Zgraggen, Julien Jonas Bismuth, Julien Blaine, Irma Blank, Barbara Bloom, Raphaël Boccanfuso, Alighiero Boetti, Marinus Boezem, Marie Boivent, Christian Boltanski, Jean-François Bory, George Brecht, Anne Brégeaut, Denis Briand, Samuel Buckman, Bureau d’études, Daniel Buren, James Lee Byars, André Cadere, Stefano Calligaro, Ernst Caramelle, Janet Cardiff, Ulises Carrión, Lourdes Castro, Philippe Cazal, Joaquim Chancho, Yves Chaudouët, Alex Chevalier, Henri Chopin, Laurie Clark, Magali Claude, Philippe Clerc, Iris Clert, Claude Closky, Bob Cobbing, Gérard Collin-Thiébaut, Anne Colomes, Vaast Colson, Coum, Muriel Couteau, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Crass, Simon Cutts, Alba D’Urbano, Hanne Darboven, Moyra Davey, Franck David, Guy de Cointet, Jacqueline de Jong, Karin de Jong, Joëlle de la Casinière, herman de vries, Rafaella Della Olga, Wim Delvoye, Christine Demias, Agnes Denes, Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost, Mirtha Dermisache, Devonian Press, Damien Dion, Thea Djordjadze, Ursula Döbereiner, Antje Dorn, Double Fly Art Center, Helen Douglas, Peter Downsbrough, Yvonne Dröge Wendel, Amélie Dubois, Anne Durez, Céline Duval, Dysfunction, Maria Eichhorn, Ernest T, Erró, Ninar Esber, Amelia Etlinger, Jean-Baptiste Farkas, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Gerald Ferguson, Francesca Ferreri, Robert Filliou, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Enrico Floriddia, Fred Forest, Julie C. Fortier, Estelle Fredet, Anne Frémy, JaZoN Frings, Aurélien Froment, Hamish Fulton, Ellen Gallagher, Antonio Gallego, Ryan Gander, Heinz Gappmayr, Dora Garcia, Hélène Garcia, Pierre Garnier, Ilse Garnier, Anne-Valérie Gasc, Jacob Gautel, General Idea, Jochen Gerz, Paul-Armand Gette, Ghazel, Ingo Giezendanner, Gilbert & George, Nicolas Giraud, Lena Goarnisson, Mathias Goeritz, Kenneth Goldsmith, Fernanda Gomes, Eugen Gomringer, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Group Material, Grupa Kart, Juli Gudehus, Guerrilla Girls, Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Fabrice Gygi, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Irena Haiduk, Raymond Hains, Richard Hamilton, Margaret Harrison, Cynthia Harthaway, Bernard Heidsieck, Jochem Hendricks, Geoffrey Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Pati Hill, Susan Hiller, Thomas Hirschhorn, Saskia Holmkvist, Karl Holmqvist, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, David Horvitz, Véronique Hubert, Zoë Irvine, Ernst Jandl, Françoise Janicot, Véronique Joumard, Michel Journiac, Valérie Jouve, Florence Jung, Stephen Kaltenbach, Allan Kaprow, Kennard – Phillipps, Farah Khelil, Per Kirkeby, Sharon Kivland, Alison Knowles, Koo Jeong-a, Jaroslaw Koslowski, Richard Kostelanetz, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, Ferdinand Kriwet, Shigeko Kubota, Edmund Kuppel, Louise Lawler, Robert Lax, Pascal Le Coq, Jean Le Gac, Christian Lebrat, Antoine Lefebvre & Minkyung Song, Lefevre Jean Claude, Hélène Leflaive, Steven Leiber, Yuri Leiderman, Maurice Lemaître, Jochen Lempert, Zoe Leonard, Les Éts. Decoux Éditeurs, Mehryl Levisse, Sol LeWitt, Micah Lexier, Hanne Lippard, Peter Liversidge, Richard Long, Ken Lum, Urs Lüthi, Jackson Mac Low, Françoise Mairey, Christian Marclay, Laurent Marissal, Olive Martin, Roberto Martinez, Gordon Matta-Clark, Allan McCollum, Sara MacKillop, Cildo Meireles, Albert Mertz, Annette Messager, Michèle Métail, Gustav Metzger, Nanne Meyer, Aleksandra Mir, Marianne Mispelaëre, Christiane Möbus, Manfred Mohr, Greta Monach, Nelly Monnier, Linda Montano, Antoine Moreau, Julie Morel, François Morellet, Jean-Luc Moulène, Tania Mouraud, Matt Mullican, Antoni Muntadas, Maurizio Nannucci, Bruce Nauman, Julien Nédélec, Marylène Negro, Angeline Neveu, Olaf Nicolai, Seiichi Niikuni, Richard Nonas, Maria Nordman, Sophie Nys, Bernadette O’Toole, Antoinette Ohannessian, Camila Oliveira Fairclough, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Kristin Oppenheim, Marie Orensanz, Erica Overmeer, Clémente Padín, Gianpaolo Pagni, Giulio Paolini, Mark Pawson, Marine Peixoto, A. R. Penck, Giuseppe Penone, Dan Perjovschi, Nicole Peyrafitte, Friederike Pezold, Anne-Emilie Philippe, Estelle Pianet, Lil Picard, Michalis Pichler, Cesare Pietroiusti, Peter Piller, Guillaume Pinard, Adrian Piper, Melana Pizani, Louis Porter, Présence Panchounette, Laure Prouvost, Lucy Pullen & Sandy Plotnikoff, Hanna Putz & Sophie Thun, Walid Raad, Babeth Rambault, Jo Ray, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Hubert Renard, Pierre-Lin Renié, Magali Reus, Amanda Riffo, Bridget Riley, Martha Rosler, Dieter Roth, Francesc Ruiz, Jean-Jacques Rullier, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha, Claude Rutault, Collin Sackett, Takako Saito, Matthieu Saladin, Karin Sander, Sarenco, Aram Saroyan, Karen Savage, Katharina Schmidt, Andreas Schmidt, Carolee Schneemann, Dorothea Schulz, Elfi Seidel, Yann Sérandour, Cindy Sherman, Mieko Shiomi, Seth Siegelaub, Nicolas Simarik, Dayanita Singh, Sister Corita, Michael Snow, Mary Ellen Solt, Soussan Ltd, Carole Spearin McCauley, Daniel Spoerri, Haim Steinbach, Jan Steinbach, Jessica Stockholder, Ulrike Stoltz, Susanne Stövhase, Veit Stratmann, Derek Sullivan, Christine Sun Kim, Batia Suter, Eric Tabuchi, Athena Tacha, Triin Tamm, Rúna Thorkelsdóttir, Nick Thurston, Elisabeth Tonnard, Niele Toroni, Endre Tót, Mathieu Tremblin, David Tremlett, Didier Trenet, Rosemarie Trockel, Richard Tuttle, Timm Ulrichs, Unglee, Sebastian Utzni, Clement Valla, Jiří Valoch, Erik van der Weijde, Ger van Elk, Erica Van Horn, Marijke Van Warmerdam, Victor Vasarely, Ben Vautier, Bernar Venet, Christophe Viart, Vier5, Bernard Villers, Jean-Luc Vilmouth, Luca Vitone, Dorothee von Windheim, Eleanor Vonne Brown, Wolf Vostel, Hans Waanders, Robin Waart, Emmanuelle Waeckerlé, Anne Waldman, Madeleine Walton, Andy Warhol, Eric Watier, Lawrence Weiner, David Fischli and Peter Weiss, Martina Wember, Elsa Werth, Stephen Willats, Emmett Williams, Ian Wilson, Millie Wilson, Nancy Wilson-Pajic, Gil J. Wolman, Heidi Wood, John Wood & Paul Harrison, Erwin Wurm, La Monte Young, Louis Zerathe, etc.
We are pleased to announce that we will be hosting the 12th TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR (below, TABF) at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo from Thursday, October 27 to Sunday, October 30, 2022 over a span of four days. This year’s fair features a lineup of approximately 200 different exhibitors – a collective of publishers, galleries, and artists each involved in creating their own unique art books and publications. At the fair, guests and exhibitors can connect in person and engage in discourse about the allure and charm of each of their creations. This year’s TABF will also be home to the sixth rendition of the Guest Country project – an endeavor that draws attention to the culture of publishing within a certain region or country. This year’s “Guest Country” will be France, and at the TABF we will be taking a multifaceted dive into the country’s rich tradition of art publishing through exhibits and other projects. Other notable undertakings include a lineup of special exhibitions by Bottega Veneta and Shiseido, together with a program shining light on risograph works – an artform quickly gathering attention in the art book scene as of late. Adding to this lineup is our rich repertoire of other events – workshops and talk events with special guests, book signings by artists and creators, and much more. Through this collection of art-book-focused endeavors, it’s our hope at the TABF to provide guests with a glance into the “now” of the continuously-evolving world of art books.
Fair Information |
Event Name: TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR 2022
Fair Period and Dates: Thursday, October 27, 2022 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Friday, October 28 / Saturday, October 29 / Sunday, October 30 every day from 10:30 AM to 7:00 PM
Fair Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Exhibition Gallery B2F, Entrance Hall and other areas
Address: 〒135-0022 Miyoshi 4-1-1, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Official Website: https://tokyoartbookfair.com/
Exhibition Area
Venue:MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOKYO, Special Exhibition Room B2F
Organized by: Tokyo Art Book Fair, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Embassy of France in Japan/Institut Français Japon
Public Booth Area |
Venue: MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOKYO, Entrance Hall and other areas
Organized by: Tokyo Art Book Fair / Special assistance provided by: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Embassy of France in Japan/Institut Français Japon
Sponsored by: Bottega Veneta Japan, Shiseido, agnès b. Japan, Inuuiq Co., Ltd., Riso Kagaku Corporation
With Support From: Villa Kujoyama, Bureau international de l’édition française (International Bureau of French Publishers, Business France (Embassy of France in Japan’s Agency of Trade and Investment), Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, ArtSticker (The Chain Museum Inc.), Hand Saw Press, Karimoku Furniture Inc., FUKUINKAN SHOTEN PUBLISHERS INC., KODOMONOBUNKA-FUKYUKYOKAI CO.,LTD
Grants Provided By: Institut Français Japon’s Agency of Culture Paris, Mondrian Fund, “ARTS for the future! 2” program
Entrance Fee: General Admission 1,000 JPY (tax included, must be purchased in advance)
*Ticket sales to the Fair are slotted to begin in October 14. Please check our official website and social media outlets for further information.