Friday, April 28, 2023

Gwénaelle Lacoste, Les Supersheros de L'Arche (The Superheros of Art), Le Dernier Cri, Marseille, France, 2022

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Another wild card of an accordion from Le Dernier Cri. This silk-screened publication is comprised of a cover which holds three separate 5 p...

Anonymous, Untitled, nd

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A small blank accordion that I came across in this great store in Manhattan called Kinokuniya which carries an incredible array of Japanese ...

Nikki de Saint Phalle, Traces, Editions Acatos, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1999

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This autobiographical accordion was published by Editions Acatos as both a catalogue and documentation of an exhibition of Phalle's work...
Thursday, April 27, 2023

Jürgen Olbrich, Nothing, Germany, 2023

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A mini-accordion book from this German post-neo-fluxus-networker and busy conceptual artist who I've been corresponding with for a coupl...

Simon Starke, ÖKOpädie, Germany, nd

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  A curious accordion by this German conceptual artist who was born in 1958. The description of him on the  artland.com site reads like an ...

Gérard Lo Monaco, The Carousel of Animals, Little Gestalten, Berlin, 2017

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Not an accordion but something special nevertheless! I've never come across a book that turns into a 3-dimensional sculptural object and...

Sonia Delaunay, Madame Sonia Delaunay, Musee D'Art Moderne, Paris, 2014

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Following my quest to explore other 'folded' works I recently came across this fun children's book featuring the work of the Fre...

Jim Bertolacini, Jimmyfofingas, Madison, 2023, ed. 1, and Andrily Liashcuk, Tamara Turliun & Chantal Rems, One Day You Will Grow Back Your Thumb, 2022, ed. 500

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I never thought I would be posting on this blog two accordions that take as their subject matter missing digits, in the case of Bertolacini ...