Richard Meier, Voix Editions/accordion publications, France

I just had to feature this selection of 16 accordion publications published by Meier's Voix Editions. I have only recently come across this impressive and wide-ranging publishing house, and found these tucked away in their catalogue. I have previously posted about this work by Albert Merz in a separate entry in this blog.  Éditions Richard Meier

Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean-Yves Bosseur

Cueco

Remi Dall'Aglio

Luis Darocha

Zingjiang Gao

Daniel Humair

Francois Martin

Albert Merz (see elsewhere in this blog)

Gerard Michel

Francois Morellet

Jean-Luc Parant

Michel Paysant

Horacio Sapere

Emmanuel Saulnier

Claude Vallat

Antoni Muntadas, Red, Arts Libris, Spain, 2019.

"On October 1st, 2017, the People's Republic of China commemorates its 68th anniversary with various celebrations. At the time, Antoni Muntadas was finishing his project Asian Protocols in China. On October 1st, 2017 he set out to identify and gather images and graphic items in which red, a symbolically loaded color in Chinese culture, affiliated with and used by the Government was predominant."  Antoni Muntadas

Four strips of 9 cards, individual cards 4" (h) x 5.75" (w), when opened each strip is 3ft long.

the text on the back of all the postcards

Julian Tuwin, and Matgorzat Surowska & Joanna Ruszczk, Locomotive/IDEOLO, Centrala, Poland, 2015

This is a really wonderful 78 foot accordion that takes as its cue a poem by the well-known Polish artist, Julian Tuwin (1894-1953) in which he describes a train and the varieties of things and people it was carrying in its 40 wagons.  Surowska and Rusczczk have brilliantly extended this idea into a train with 43 double-page wagons carrying a huge variety of people, animals and things. The black and white design works perfectly on the page and the graphics really pop. On the back of each page are texts related to that particular carriage and its contents, with all of them being concerned in some way with a variety of social, political, economic and aesthetic issues and themes, as well as a number of quotes by Tuwin.  

96 pages, double-sided, individual page 9.75" (t) x 9.75" (w), when fully opened 78 ft. 

Julian Tuwin, The Locomotive, 1938

sample of back page

on the floor and not fully extended either!