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AMBruno returned to the International Contemporary Artists' Book Fair, Leeds at the Tetley (7 to 9 March 2014) with a new book collection on the theme of Lists, etc.: indexes, collections, inventories, stacks, miscellanies, made up of words, images, diagrams, materials, or sequences. The collection was selected by Gustavo Grandal-Montero from initial proposals. |
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Lists etc. was also shown at: The Liverpool Artists Book Fair, Central Library, Liverpool, 4 to 5 July 2014.Leeds College of Art, Vernon Street Library, Leeds LS2 8PH, 1 September to 19 December 2014. The London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 26 to 28 September 2014, along with the Stills suite of limited edition prints. The Lists etc. collection was bought by the Tate. Photographs of the book fairs by Sophie Loss. There were fourteen Lists etc books by fourteen artists: |
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Marco Calí - Erotic Letters Two complementary artworks that present an archeology of erotic writing. Passages from well known books, such as Tropic of Cancer, Fanny Hill, The Story of O, form a new narrative of passion and desire in which the writing remains as ink on paper. Hence a form of drawing, creating a world of images and ideas, is experienced as the eye traces the words. Open edition. Two giclée prints on photo rag. |
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Kathryn Faulkner - BIBLIOGRAPHY 3 (AMBruno) Continuing my collection of artists' bibliographies, I invited members of AMBruno to send me a list of their most important or significant books that are still in their possession. I worked with this material in various ways to make an artist's book about artists' books. Open Edition. Black and white printing, card covers, saddle stitch binding. |
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Judy Goldhill - Dark Energy Fills My Sails: Observatory Time The pictures in this book were made in response to the inauguration of the Dark Energy Survey in 2012, which will attempt to chart the origins and nature of 'dark energy'. The presence of the colour-inverted images is an attempt to refigure the unknown nature of this phenomenon, presenting it as a more structured, time based phenomena. The Dark Energy Camera is situated inside the dome of the Blanco Telescope, Chile, which appears as a point of reference in several photographs. Edition of 25 books, signed and numbered. Indigo prints, hand sewn and bound. |
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Barbara Greene - Gale Warnings: The Shipping Forecast for Wednesday 1st January 2014 Romantic, evocative, informative, repetitive, descriptive, hypnotic, poetic, eccentric, a litany, a lullaby... the shipping forecast has iconic status among listeners, many not connected with the sea. Actual listings for New Year's Day together with regional map sections and listings of symbols taken from maritime information understood by navigators. Edition of 4. Screenprint, surface print and photocopy. |
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Jane Grisewood - BLACK ON BLACK interprets black as printed word and image through lists of countless black pigments, inks, paintings and drawings. Black is absorbing black on each page as text transforms into image. Words are lost in the enigmatic images, lost in black, lost in the void. Edition of 30, signed and numbered. Digital prints, hand sewn and bound. |
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Ingrid Jensen - Thought Capture Extracts from ten years of notebooks tracking thoughts, ideas, events, lists and tasks encountered and generated by being an artist. Travelling back and forth along the roll rewinds and revisits brief instances. Edition of 10. Archival inkjet print on a scroll. |
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Lydia Julien - Monday Through multiple devices, viewing pornography is almost effortless. Monday has proved the most popular day to access porn. The mutability of images is constantly shifting and changing, there are hundreds of categories and collections within collections. The book Monday explores the situation when the objectified, hyper-sexualised, fetishized body is removed and only the space remains. Edition of 10. Perfect-bound book. |
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Sharon Kivland - THE UNACHIEVED This is a book of failed collections. Herein are postcards whose taxonomy I have already determined, filing each image under a provisional title according to the set of properties it will share with others yet to be found, but which have not accrued in sufficient quantity to constitute a proper collection according to my stern, rigorous, and internalised rules. Edition of 25. Digitally printed, signed and numbered. |
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Philip Lee - Shirt List is a catalogue of all the shirts Philip Lee is not usually allowed to wear. The photographs are by Cally Trench. Edition of 15. Printed on acid-free paper, hand sewn. |
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Sophie Loss - Do To Do This is a self-portrait of a writer attempting to rein in all the many imperatives by listing them. In this re-presentation, the content is lost but form gained. Edition of 12. Colour digital prints. |
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John McDowall - A list of something in Herman Melville's 'Pierre: or, The Ambiguities.' At the time of its first publication Herman Melville's Pierre: or, The Ambiguities was scorned for what was perceived as the novel's dubious morals and its incoherent style and narrative, and its apparent self-contradictory satirical critiques of the genres and themes which it encompassed. Ambivalence was one of the book's many complex, and prescient themes. Open edition. Sewn pamphlet, digital printing. |
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Sumi Perera - Top 10 WCC Lists of ten white-collar criminals (WCC), ten prosecutors, and ten cinematic (fictional/non-fictional) depictions of crimes are provided as 'tags' to cut up and re-insert. In rearranging these loose pages, the reader is asked to speculate on different outcomes in alternative circumstances by re-sequencing the criminals, their sentences and prosecutors. Hardback: edition of 10. 10 loose pages of mezzotints. Paperback: open edition. 10 pages of digital scans. |
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Steve Perfect - Bird Oil A reflection on The Field Guide inspired by the natural history of books. Edition of 20. Casebound, includes 16 colour plates. |
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Anne Rook - The Cupboard Altar, |
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