Friday, June 17, 2016

Bea Nettles, The Fig Leaf, Urbana, Illinois, 2010, ed. 17

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A spunky and humorous little accordion booklet exploring the history of the fig leaf, the idea for which arose when Nettles spent time i...

Bea Nettles, 14 Mysteries, Urbana, Illinois, 2012. [open edition]

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This is just a gem of an artists' book, and integral to the work is its accordion format. Underneath the 14 keys and for the whole l...
Thursday, June 9, 2016

Sjoed Knibbeler, Paper Planes, Fw: Books, 2015

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This accordion comes in a beautifully made folder and the work is made up of photographs of 16 folded paper planes that are based upon d...
Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Dennis Oppenheim, Flower Arrangement for Bruce Nauman, New York City: Multiples, Inc., 1970. [edition: 1200]

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As the title of this work suggests its a work in dialogue with a fellow minimalist/conceptual artist, Bruce Nauman, and a work of his ti...
Monday, June 6, 2016

Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum (brochure), Haifa, Israel, 2016

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Some very simple accordions quite often have nice surprises inside, and this is one of them!  The Bar Kokhba  revolt was a rebellio...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Kiki Smith, Realms, New York: PaceWildenstein, 2002 [edition 2000]

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An accordion publication that accompanied Smith's exhibition "Realms" at the PaceWildenstein gallery in New York from March...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Thomas Seest (ed), Leporello #1 - 11, Lamgbortistan: Copenhagen, Denmark, 2005 [slipcase by Lina Bjorn]

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This interesting project brought together 11 artists d rawn from the Danish literary and artistic scenes  who created a similar number of...

Goddog and Sanair, Or Noir, Avignon, France, 2015. [edition 50]

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The two street artists Goddog and Sanair collaborated on this book with each contributing one side and their abstracted styles mesh beau...

Bill Burns, Amazing Curators, Collectors and Museums of the World, billburnsprojects.com, 2015

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A smart accordion that mimicks the vacation booklets with their strips of souvenir postcards. Here the conceptual artist, Bill Burns use...