Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Karl Holmqvist, Syline is the By-Linezz, Motto Books, Berlin, 2014, ed. 800

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A mass of texts, letters, words, sense-nonsense sentences, repetitions, patterns, empty spaces, symbols and numbers all coalesce in this wor...
Friday, September 18, 2020

Billy Ocallaghan, Lucky, improper printing, 2017, ed. open

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A fascinating accordion by this Irish writer that traces how far back you have to go in your family history to be connected to 1 million peo...

Simon Cutts with watercolors by Kate Van Houten, In Nannycatch Beck, Coracle Press, Ireland, 2017

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Another beauty from Coracle Press with sparse, but pregnant words by Cutts, and watercolor pebbles by Van Houten in all their watery glory a...
Thursday, September 17, 2020

Natalya Balnova, Principles of Jelly Making, 2013, ed. 30 and Beasty Heads, 2018, ed. 3

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Principles of Jelly Making, 2013, ed. 30: 12 pages, double-sided, single page 5.5"(h) x 5"(w), and when fully open 2ft 6". Tw...
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Ashra, Untitled, Paris, 2019

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I'm always excited to come across an erotic accordion. This tiny work is a series of black and white photographs of a heterosexual coupl...

Virginia Dwan, Flowers, Radius Books, Santa Fe, 2016

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This  78ft long accordion came as a complete surprise to me. Just its length alone makes it noteworthy, but the artist who created this work...
Thursday, August 20, 2020

Clotilde Perrin, At the same moment on earth (Au même instant, sur la Terre...), Rue du Monde, France, 2011

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A really beautiful, and a quite large accordion that journey's across the globe dropping into 24 different cultures to peek at what the ...