Sky Arts Ignition: Memory Palace
©Erik Kessels
Sky Arts Ignition: Memory Palace – june 18 to october 20, 2013, Victoria and Albert Museum, London – brings together a new work of fiction by the author Hari Kunzru with 20 original commissions from leading graphic designers, illustrators and typographers to create a multidimensional story. The way we read books is changing. Memory Palace explores how a story might be imagined in a different format – as a walk-in book.
With work by Âbäke, Peter Bil’ak, Alexis Deacon, Oded Ezer, Francesco Franchi, Isabel Greenberg, Hansje van Halem, Jim Kay, Johnny Kelly, Erik Kessels, Na Kim, Stuart Kolakovic, Frank Laws, Le Gun, Luke Pearson, Stefanie Posavec, Némo Tral, Henning Wagenbreth, Mario Wagner and Sam Winston.
Hari Kunzru’s story is set in a future London, hundreds of years after the world’s information infrastructure was wiped out by an immense magnetic storm. Technology and knowledge have been lost, and a dark age prevails. Nature has taken over the ruins of the old city and power has been seized by a group who enforce a life of extreme simplicity on all citizens. Recording, writing, collecting and art are outlawed…
The chosen practitioners work across a variety of fields, from comics and editorial illustration to advertising and typography. Each of the designers and illustrators worked on a different passage of text from the story, responding freely to the text. The resulting commissions vary dramatically in scale and format, from intricate hand-drawn works to large three-dimensional environments.
Revue Correspondances
Correspondances est née d’une intuition du matin. De celles qui t’éveillent et prennent de l’ampleur au fil du jour. L’idée était simple : questionner le rapport entre texte et image en faisant appel à 10 correspondants (5 auteurs, 5 illustrateurs) dont la participation, écrite ou dessinée, s’inspirerait de la contribution précédente.
Correspondances ne se veut pas être un énième recueil d’oeuvres mais d’avantage une affaire de points de vue. Correspondances est l’art de concevoir et de transmettre le fruit de ses réflexions à travers un véritable téléphone arabe sur papier où chaque correspondant s’inspire et inspire.
Theophile’s Papers PANORAMA n°15
Theophile’s Papers is a project dedicated to the diffusion of independent editors, fanzines, newspapers and magazines specialized in art, photography, typography, and illustration, with a focus on the promotion of emerging projects and artist books.
With his collection of publications, and displays designed by Valérian Goalec, Theophile travels to apartments, galleries, and book shops, where he helps people to discover new things in different places.
Artisan Social Designer, an Art & design gallery in Paris, welcomes Theophile’s Papers for Panorama n°15, november 30 to january 2.
UPCOMING BOOK FAIRS
©William Wegman, Reading Two Books
OFFPRINT, November 15-18, 2012, Paris
KIOOSK, November 17-18, 2012, Kraków
PA/PER VIEW, November 24-25, 2012, Porto
ROOKIE, December 6-8, 2012, Poznan
Bookshop Index
©The Book Society, Seoul – Aye-Aye Books, Glasgow
On Reading, Nagoya-shi – Art Metropole, Toronto
Bookshop Index, a directory of independent art bookshops around the world.
STEINBERG, SAUL. THE NEW YORKER. NEW YORK, 1945–2000. (HAROLD, WILLIAM, ROBERT, TINA, DAVID, EDS.)
STEINBERG, SAUL. THE NEW YORKER. NEW YORK, 1945–2000.
(HAROLD, WILLIAM, ROBERT, TINA, DAVID, EDS.)
For more than fifty years, Saul Steinberg was The New Yorker’s in-house observer, visual epitome, and its chief cartoonist. This exhibition, naming The New Yorker’s consecutive editors, collects some two hundred of his one thousand published contributions, presented as is: magazines, collected through time, some slightly yellowed and hung with that irrevocable library smell…
We can’t imagine how you could see Steinberg’s stenographic line without seeing the page it is on. “Everything has a message,” Steinberg noted. The circulatory system has a message, the page has a message, the ads have a message, the neighborhood of fiction and news have a message, all of it makes for juxtapositions as eerily apposite as anything the French surrealists or a blender could come up with.
The exhibition program will include a lecture by the exhibition coordinators Robert Snowden and Scott Ponik, a talk by Stuart Bailey of Dexter Sinister on July 3, and a screening of The Right Way by Fischli and Weiss on Saturday, August 4.
June 16 – August 10, 2012
YALE UNION (YU), Portland
Kolla! Affisch-Festival
©Samuel Nyholm
Arranged by Kolla!, Iaspis & We Do Not Work Alone, The Kolla Poster Festival idea is to inspire, deepen the knowledge within graphic design and illustration. Dedicated to the poster, it will look at its phenomena from a historical and contemporary point of view, but will also focus on the future of the media.
International and local guests will give lectures, workshop, and visitors will be encouraged to interact to have access to some material to casually be creative with.
March 15, 2012
Research&Development, Stockholm
Visages
Visages,
une exposition collective et une publication dirigées par Joseph Ghosn avec les dessins de Charles Berberian, Theo Ellsworth, Charles Burns, Philippe Dupuy, Sammy Harkham, Frédéric Fleury, Blutch, Frédérique Rusch, Paul Hornschemeier, Caroline Andrieu, Nine Antico, Serge Clerc, Frédéric Poincelet, Antoine Marquis, Julien Carreyn, Emmanuelle Pidoux, Fanny Michaëlis, Ludovic Debeurme, Michael Deforge.
“On ne regarde jamais assez les visages dessinés, les figures qui traversent une case, une page et les regards qui les habitent. La bande dessinée, pourtant, est un art de la représentation, du visage restitué, réinventé, mais toujours fidèle à lui-même, à sa vérité. Ou alors à la vérité telle que la perçoit le dessinateur. Les visages, donc, sont ces pièces centrales qui font que l’on reconnaît un personnage, une figure, immédiatement. La tension est toujours là, dans ce qui dessine l’ovale d’un visage, la souplesse ou la dureté d’un regard : le visage, donc, est bien l’ultime frontière de la bande dessinée – et du dessin, d’où qu’il provienne. C’est pour cela qu’en écho à une idée de la galerie 12mail (exposons de la bande dessinée), la seule réponse qui sorte et s’impose est celle de montrer des visages, d’accrocher des regards plutôt que de montrer des planches qui ont leur place dans des livres plutôt que sur des murs.” …
A l’occasion de l’exposition, 12Mail éditera une publication gratuite conçue par Laurent Fétis, éditée à 1000 exemplaires, regroupant les visuels de l’exposition sous forme de posters détachables.
3 février – 30 mars 2012
12MAIL, Paris
Beni Bischof war krank
In a two-day workshop students of HfG Offenbach worked together with Alexander Lis
& Samuel Bänziger to present the drawings of the artist Beni Bischof in a book.
Launch December 13, 2011, 7pm
Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach am Main
Salon Light #8
Every year, cneai= organises Salon Light at the Point Ephémère in Paris; a salon dedicated to micro-edition and artists’ publications. cneai=, through Salon Light, supports and promotes the dissemination of experimental publishers whose work covers the field of art and its frontiers: social sciences, graphic design, sound, poetry…
Forward-thinking, prosperous and audacious, the editorial approach of the participants in Salon Light reflects a desire to entirely rethink the printed object and its production. Limited editions and a real desire to make visible emergent and established artists: the establishment of a new definition of publishing lies at the core of the concerns of Salon Light #8.
Cneai (center of edition and of printed art), aware of the monotony that characterises the set «table+chair+publisher», innovates and proposes a new model of presentation of publications, that aims to transform the salon into an exhibition space dedicated to editorial practices. Each editor is invited to put together a display of their most recent editions. The architects Elisabeth Lemercier and Philippe Bona conceive a device composed of holsters and drawers and made of magnetic steel, which is proposed as an exhibition display. (video)
All informations and schedule events at www.cneai.com/salon_light
October 21-23, 2011
Point Éphémère, Paris
Antidote 7 – Jean-Marc Ballée
Pour la septième édition d’Antidote, Guillaume Houzé a souhaité mettre en valeur le travail du graphiste Jean-Marc Ballée à l’occasion de la publication du catalogue de la collection Ginette Moulin / Guillaume Houzé.
Ouvrage particulièrement original dans sa composition, le livre comprend douze pages de dessins en noir et blanc produits par Jean-Marc Ballée et inspirés de l’univers des Comics. Ce dernier a sélectionné dans la collection d’art contemporain de Ginette Moulin et Guillaume Houzé un ensemble d’œuvres qu’il a envisagé d’un point de vue formel afin de les faire renaître, par le prisme du dessin, en personnages, monstres ou encore paysages. Séduit par l’association de ces œuvres soudainement animées au sein de deux histoires, Guillaume Houzé a invité Jean-Marc Ballée à être le co-commissaire de l’exposition pour imaginer une rencontre entre les œuvres de sa collection et les dessins de ce dernier.
Dans l’espace de la galerie, des îlots réunissant plusieurs pièces se formeront, faisant ainsi dialoguer les œuvres entre elles. Parmi celles-ci, on pourra également découvrir les dessins de Jean-Marc Ballée transformés à leur tour en synopsis de la mise en scène rencontrée : consultables sous la forme de grandes affiches, ils structureront l’espace et créeront un va-et-vient avec les œuvres exposées.
Jean-Marc Ballée est graphiste. Il s’intéresse particulièrement aux questions de fictions et de narrations. Son parcours l’a amené à approcher différents champs de la création : de l’art contemporain (avec Adel Abdessemed, Fabrice Hyber ou Sophie Ristelhueber), au design (Petite histoire de la capsule d’habitation en images avec Alexandra Midal) et à l’architecture (avec Rem Koolhaas ou Dominique Perrault). Jean-Marc Ballée prépare également l’adaptation du roman de Graham Masterton, Ritual, (1988) en un courtmétrage tourné dans les forêts proches de Philadelphie.
6 octobre 2011 – 7 janvier 2012
La Galerie des Galeries, Paris
VON OBEN by SANY
Von Oben consists of cartoon’s by SANY, alias Samuel Nyholm, artist and illustrator from Lund, Sweden, former member of the design group Reala. The book is the premiere release of Bad Day Publishing, an extension of the Toronto based art magazine Bad Day.
“Von Oben (from above) is a an idiomatic expression in German that meaning to have a superior attitude to others. In the book “Von Oben”, those offenders are instantly and literally punished, by heavy objects falling on them from the sky. In a secular world, where our great God has gone for vacation, it remains no greater punishment than our own arrogance.
The book’s stereotypes are taken from an equally racist as sexist slap-stickworld, even though no longer aired publicly, thriving in our subconscious. Despite its coarseness, its components dwells in all of us. Perhaps even you, at some point, deserved a Steinway in the head?”
September 17, 2011, 2-5pm
Art Copenhagen, Frederiksberg
September 23, 2011, 7pm
Tomorrow / Yesterday, Toronto
Bad Day – Issue 11
Bad Day – Issue 11 features graphic designer-cum-filmmaker Mike Mills on it’s cover, shot by Todd Cole and interviewed by Asher Penn. Also featured are David Shrigley, Tomi Ungerer, Tauba Auerbach, Steven Shearer, Andrew Kuo, and Martino Gamper, in addition to The Hangover by Devin Blair and the usual Joke by SANY (Samuel Nyholm).
Launch July 28, 2011, 7pm
Phaidon Store, New York City
OMMU TEMPORARY BOOKSHOP in ROME
©Pierre Vanni
OMMU is pleased to announce the opening of a Temporary Bookshop in collaboration with NERO magazine in Rome, where over than 100 titles will be presented from our extensive catalogue of magazines, monographs, exhibition catalogues, zines and artist books.
17th – 24th June 2011
Motelsalieri, Rome
BYOB Minneapolis
BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) is a series of one-night-only-exhibitions hosting artists and their projectors. The BYOB concept was initiated by Anne de Vries & Rafael Rozendaal in Berlin and has since popped up in cities around the world, both large and small.
BYOB Minneapolis is presented by Permanent Art & Design Group in collaboration with curators Travis Stearns and Josh Clancy. Local, national, and international digital artists will create a pop up projection exhibit within the Thorp Building’s vacant 12,000 sq foot warehouse space in Northeast Minneapolis. The works will overlap, juxtapose, and form a glimpse at future possibilities of representing visual information; the chaos of the internet laid before the visitor in a darkened warehouse space.
June 25, 2011, 9pm
Thorp Building, Minneapolis
Wall of Tomorrow
Le Corbusier, one of the most influential architects of the 20th century, finished the construction and interior design of the Swiss Foundation in 1933, along with Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret. Le Corbusier dressed the walls of the building’s common area, known as the “Salon courbe”, with images related to microbiology and architecture. This “photographic mural” (10×4 meters) was seriously damaged during the German occupation and finally destroyed in 1947. The original mural only survived in one or two pictures that show how the “Salon courbe” was conceived and that summarize Le Corbusier’s radical modernist approach.
Swiss graphic designer Diego Fellay, in residence at the swiss Foundation, welcomes illustrators & photographers to recreate this forgotten mural with him. Six original posters will be produced and distributed, as well as 400 copies of each.
The exhibition Wall of Tomorrow is an experiment dealing with image and space.
June 9-19, 2011
Fondation Suisse, Paris