Juan Echeverry, Dead End, Bogota, Columbia, 2016

I'm not quite sure what is happening in this 'endless loop' of an accordion, but it seems there are two dialogues between represented here — one in black ink and the other in green. Either way there's a slightly creepy quality to the things that this man sees and imagines as he walks down the street. Not for the faint of heart from this artist from Columbia!

On a technical note, I'm not even sure that this book meets the definition of an accordion, but its very close, at a minimum an 'expanded book'.

14 pages, one-sided, individual 4.25" (h) x 4.5" (w), when fully extended 34".

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Taehyoung Jeon, Rain, Seoul, S. Korea, 2019

This accordion is so deceptively simple and it takes full advantage of the key feature of the accordion in such an effective and beautiful manner. A historical precedent for this work would be the visual poem that Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) first published in the journal SIC, #12, 1916 titled "Il Pleut," that mirrors with sentences the streams of rain as they fall across the page (see at bottom of this entry).

8 pages, single-sided, individual pages 5.25" (h) x 4.25" (w), and when fully opened 34". 

 

                                Guillaume Appollinaire, Il Pleut (It Rains), 1916