KALEID 2016 Collection
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A Catalogue of Misfortune
Sam Hodge
Edition of seven hundred and fifty, 2015Dry-point prints of smashed mobile screens are accompanied by fables for the digital age. The unfortunate owners efforts to make sense of the accidents reveal our current attitudes towards chance events, modern technology and the impermanence of material objects.
Acquired by MoMA, the Met, Lafayette College Library, the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, the SAIC Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection and Chelsea UAL.
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
€60.00
Daniele Catalli
Edition of four hundred, 2014An illustrative peep show and Victoriana tunnel book inspired by William Shakespeare’s comedy play. Letterpress and screen-printed by hand.
Acquired by the Oslo National Academy of the Arts Library, Swarthmore College and Lafayette College.
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All the Paintings in the Museum
Guy Bigland
Edition of one thousand, 2015A list of the titles of paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK. Ranging from intricacy to abstract obfuscation; the words are detached from the paintings and alphabetically regimented as an inventory informed by art historical conventions, clichés and the idiosyncrasies of archivists and curators.
Acquired by Chelsea UAL, Swarthmore College, the SAIC Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection and Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
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Arabesk 12
€640.00
Randi Annie Strand
Edition of five, 2014A haptic tiling system printed in relief and overlaid on translucent gampi paper. The geometric shapes shift in form and colour through the turning of the pages.
Acquired by Swarthmore College.
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Battlefields
Jos Jansen
Published by The Eriskay Connection
Edition of three hundred, 2015Photography is used as a forensic-scientific tool to examine our compulsive desire to be connected at all times. The publication contains ten monumental images that Jansen made of screen-surfaces of smartphones and tablets.
Acquired by the Oslo National Academy of the Arts Library, the Met, the SAIC Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection and Chelsea UAL.
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Berberry
Toby Leigh
Published by Ditto Press
Edition of two hundred and fifty, 2015Documentation spanning 10 years photographing fake Burberry products – mass produced clothes, birthday cakes, cars, tattoos, wheelchairs, iPhone covers, toilet seats and whole apartment blocks clad in the go-to symbol of pseudo luxury.
Acquired by MoMA, the Met, Swarthmore College, Lafayette College, the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and Chelsea UAL.
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BLOK 62
Imrich Veber
Edition of one hundred and fifty, 2015A family album presented in newspaper format combines photographs from Veber’s own childhood and found imagery. The docu-fictional narrative deals with the collective memory of a generation who grew up on the housing estates of the 70s and 80s in Central Europe.
Acquired by the SAIC Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Swarthmore College, MoMA and the Met.
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Bloom
€25.00
Ben Cave
Edition of five hundred, 2014Two conflicting visions of the world of flora raise questions about shifting notions of foreignness and the indigenous ideal. Plants that have been categorised as invasive non-native species in Great Britain are contrasted with arrangements of cultivated flowers and vegetables, which have been entered into competitions at local horticultural shows.
Acquired by the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, MoMA and Chelsea UAL.
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Book of Lists, Kitab al Fihrist
Marcelle Hanselaar
Edition of seven, 2015A timecapsule of the literate Arab world reveals an interest from the profound to the bawdy. Hanselaar juxtaposes her self-referential etchings with typeset excerpts from Kitab al Fihrist, an index of all books written in Arabic by Ibn al Nadim, a 10th Century bookseller from Baghdad.
Acquired by the Victoria and Albert National Art Library.
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Bus-spotting
paula roush
Edition of two hundred and fifty, 2015A tribute to bus enthusiasts and an exploration into the historical, social and aesthetic values of archives. A fictional narrative in the format of a letter dated 1971 found with the photographs and the recent testimony of one of the photographers, together with pictures of double- and single-decker buses selected from roush’s private archive of found photographs illustrate different approaches to the material.
Acquired by the Oslo National Academy of the Arts Library.
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Dark Matter
€25.00
Victoria Browne
Edition of five hundred, 2008A two-dimensional sheet of paper, cut, scored and folded into a three dimensional extended axonometric square; referencing Edwin Abbott’s ‘Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions’ 1884, a combination a sociopolitical commentary of Victorian values and an epistemological definition of perception.
Acquired by the V&A Museum’s National Art Library, MoMA, MACBA, Brooklyn Museum, Tate, Chelsea UAL, Swarthmore, Yale, University of Colorado Boulder and Skillman libraries, Boston Athenaeum, the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection and the Oslo National Academy of the Arts Library.
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Dear Clark,
Sara-Lena Maierhofer
Edition of sixty, 2013A study and investigation into the life and lies of con man Clark Rockefeller, aka Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter – “After several failed attempts to capture him, I realised I had to beat him with his own weapons. I had to become accustomed to experimenting with deception myself, to the point where reality and speculation merged.”
Shortlisted for best first photobook by the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards.
Acquired by MoMA and the Met.
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Dear Love Who Should Have Been Forever Mine
Marie Jacotey
Published by common-editions and Stinsensqueeze
Edition of one thousand, 2015An exploration of human behaviour through the visual correspondence of a failed relationship, with all of the associated feelings of love, desire, resentment and regret. Thirty unique coloured pencil drawings, loosely folded and unbound allow for multiple readings and interpretations of the bande dessinée.
Acquired by MoMA, Oslo National Academy of the Arts Library, Swarthmore College, Lafayette College and SAIC Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection.
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Death and Life…
Sophie Loss
Edition of one thousand, 2015A red blotch mirrors the cherries in the printed reproduction on the opposite page of Nature morte avec oiseaux morts et cerises, an oil painting by Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1712). Does this stain come from ink, blood or juice?
Acquired by Swarthmore College Library, MoMA, Lafayette College Library and the Oslo National Academy of the Arts Library.
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Die Übergänge sind rätselhaft
Anna Gille
(The Transitions are puzzling)
Edition Taube
Edition of four hundred and fifty, 2015Drawings of virtual landscapes observed in computer games and 3D simulations, record the urban and suburban environments that blur the boundaries between nature and technology.
Acquired by Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Swarthmore College, the Museum of Modern Art and Oslo National Academy of the Arts’ Library.
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Dita Pepe Self-Portraits
Dita Pepe
Published by Galerie Valcharská & wo-men
Edition of five hundred, 2014
Special edition of fifty with signed C-Type print and slipcaseDita Pepe’s self portraits are subsumed by the lives of her friends and acquaintances photographed between 1999 – 2014.
Acquired by the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, the Oslo National Academy of the Arts Library, Lafayette College, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and Brooklyn Museum.
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Eden
€28.00
Alexander Bühler
Edition of one hundred and eighty, 2010A poem, a torn fragment and thirteen postcards describe a 300m2 area in Kyosumi-shirakawa in Tokyo where Bühler lived. Plants in the neighbourhood photographed on the artists’ phone emblematically document local residents.
Acquired by MoMA and Swarthmore College.
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Famous Philatelic Errors
€220.00
Peter Rapp
Edition of thirty, 2016The modest dimensions of postage stamps belie the political messages they carry. Occasionally errors, freaks and oddities are caused in the production process. In this collection of ‘rare’ stamps printed in linocut, letterpress and handbound, things have gone satirically awry.
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Forza
€13.00
Edward Newton
Published by Highchair Editions
Edition of two hundred and fifty, 2015Photographs made in the Italian city of Genoa, captured in Newton’s illuminated mellifluous style, are published as a visual chapbook and part of an ongoing series documenting European coastal cities.
Acquired by the Oslo National Academy of the Arts Library, Swarthmore College and MoMA.
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Four Eggs Theory
€20.00
Honza Zamojski
Edition of two hundred, 2015“If I were to apply the Four Eggs Theory back upon itself, it essentially would look as follows: I have an intuitive need to structure the world of matter and ideas around me, and this is why, inspired by the theoretical ponderings, I think constantly about how to communicate my knowledge in a logical manner. All this comes together to make the Work, which is part of a greater whole – a Practice.”
Acquired by MoMA, the Met, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Swarthmore College, Rhode Island School of Art and Design, the Met, MoMA and SAIC Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection.
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I can highly recommend the Gestapo to everyone
€55.00
Victoria Browne
Edition of one hundred and fifty, 2015The artist’s book draws attention to the fallibility of print by citing five published biographies that have all reported an inaccurate account of Sigmund Freud’s evacuation from Vienna. The mythical narrative, perpetuated by the Internet’s aggrandizing, ultimately emerges as historical truth.
Acquired by the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, V&A Museum’s National Art Library, the Oslo National Academy of the Arts Library, Lafayette College, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Swarthmore College, the Yale Center for British Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum.
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Inside Embassies
€25.00
Elisabeth Ida
Published by Art Paper Editions
Edition of five hundred, 2015Efforts made in embassy waiting rooms, corridors and lobbies to convey something about the country while creating a certain homelike atmosphere come across as gauche rather than elegant; under the watchful eye of the ubiquitous state picture of a president, king or queen, keen to ensure that the national budget is not wasted.
Acquired by the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Swarthmore College, MoMA, the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection and Chelsea UAL.
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Isomorphology
Gemma Anderson
Inspired by Paul Klee’s ‘Pedagogical Sketchbook’ (1953), Anderson’s drawings of natural forms and symmetries provide the basis of ‘Isomorphology’ – the resemblance between different species of animal, vegetable and mineral.
Acquired by the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, the Yale Center for British Art, Lafayette College, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo and Chelsea UAL.
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Japan Blues
Imi Maufe
Edition of ten, 2015Whilst travelling by train from the north to south of Japan, Maufe observed the use of the colour blue to draw attention to objects in rural and urban environments. The boxed collection of twelve wooden postcards highlights these blue objects, edited from photographs along the way.
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Jaunt
€25.00
Lotte Reimann
Art Paper Editions
Edition of five hundred, 2015Nude self-portraits of a couple found on a picture sharing site are rephotographed on the computer screen. These raw images are combined with pictures sourced from the internet by Reimann to develop a sexually charged narrative.
Acquired by the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chelsea UAL and the Museum of Modern Art.
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KALUMET
€2,500.00
Guiseppe Ungaretti
Published by CTL-Presse
Edition of twenty-four, 2015An atlas containing five poems in five languages accompanying five geographical maps. Thousands of aircrafts captured in a singular moment by ‘flight radar’ calculations prove inversely proportional in number to the range of languages spoken in each geographical region.
Acquired by Lafayette College.
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Makulatur
Patrizia Meinert
Translated as Waste Paper
Edition of fifty, 2016A homage to the leftovers that remain after a book is completed. The material residue of maquettes and demonstration copies accumulated during the creation of an artist’s book were scanned, photographed and presented along with documentation of Meinert’s work process in the medium of book arts.
Acquired by the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, MoMA, the Met, the SAIC Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection and Chelsea UAL.
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MAR
€15.00
Bjarne Bare
Edition of two hundred and fifty, 2016A collection of images made in and around Los Angeles suggests an interest in the return to street photography, principally in matters of abstraction, narration and the picture-plane in photographs. As with pictures, the value of focusing on the detail does not lie in the subject itself, but rather in the particulars carried within the surface of the object.
Acquired by the Oslo National Academy of the Arts Library, MoMA and Swarthmore College.
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Marie Claire RIP & Jezebel
EJ Major
Edition of two hundred, 2013
Published by l’heure diteMajor re-stages mug shots of an unnamed heroin addict originally photographed by the New York Police Department and later published in Marie Claire magazine. The special edition includes fifty Photoshop masks created in post-production under the title of Jezebel with an essay by Catherine Somzé.
Acquired by the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, the V&A Museum’s National Art Library, the Oslo National Academy of the Arts Library, the Yale Center for British Art, Lafayette College, Swarthmore College, the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art and Brooklyn Museum.
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Measuring a location in units of time
€160.00
Benedikt Terwiel
Edition of two hundred, 2015A four-part map depicts a 50km route beginning in East Berlin at 6:20am and ending at 7:20pm in West Berlin. The one-day journey by foot from sunset to sundown along cartographic points is measured by the camera to produce images of a concrete spatial situation in lieu of numeric coordinates.
Acquired by MoMA and the Met.
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Myopia
€27.00
Hillie de Rooij
Published by The Eriskay Connection
Edition of five hundred, 2015De Rooij analyses the iconography of photographs sourced from European media outlets portraying Africa. Applying these coded guidelines to photographs made in Europe, de Rooij makes us aware of Western preconceived ideas of what Africa looks like. Myopia tells us nothing about Africa, but everything about the European view on it.
Acquired by the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Swarthmore College, Lafayette College, MoMA and the SAIC Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection.
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New Horizons
€214.00
Bruno van en Elshout
Co-published by The Eriskay Connection
Edition of two thousand and twelve, 2014In the middle of an economic crisis, the North Sea’s horizon provides us with a stable and calming counterpart. Winner of the Best Dutch Book Design 2014 and Gold for best ‘artistic catalogue’ at the European Design Award 2015.
Acquired by the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, the Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, Lafayette College, Swarthmore College, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and Brooklyn Museum.
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nothing to undo
€90.00
paula roush
Edition of two hundred and fifty, 2015A journey through the double vision of migrants' eyes travelling through a foreign country. The photo-text book contains photographs by paula roush and an extended essay of Moving away from home by Maria Lusitano. The publication evokes the incomplete journey by Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth McCausland, when in 1935 they hit the road for the 'America. The 48 States'.
Winner of the Sheffield International Artists Book Prize 2015. Acquired by the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, the Oslo National Academy of the Arts Library, Boston Athenaeum, Swarthmore College, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and Brooklyn Museum.
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olololo
Tamarin Norwood
Edition of one hundred and fifty, 2012olololo is an action book commissioned by Modern Art Oxford and supported by Arts Council England. Each lasercut slotted page folds and rotates through the static tip of a pencil. As the pages are drawn away, they accumulate into a ‘handwritten’ circular sculpture.
Acquired by the Tate, Chelsea UAL and Swarthmore libraries and the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection.
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On Innards / Publications
€100.00
Amanda Couch, Andrew Hladky, Mindy Lee and Richard Nash
Published by bookRoom
Edition of two hundred, 2015A collaboration between artists and experts in the fields of gastroenterology, virology, the medical humanities, cultural theory, poetry, yoga, and performance, the work explores multidisciplinary perspectives on digestion.
Acquired by the SAIC Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, MoMA and the Met.
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Optics
Louis Porter
Edition of one hundred, 2015Illustrations from a variety of early photographic manuals and treaties, sourced from the London Library, are presented as a pictorial analysis of the increasingly esoteric language of early photography and the form of “looking” it enabled.
Acquired by the Oslo National Academy of the Arts Library, MoMA and the Met.
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QWERTY
Sigrid Calon
Edition of three hundred and seventy five, 2016A new typeface designed along the lines of Calon’s signatory use of embroidery software acts as a visual balance between a letter’s grapheme and its abstract form. The CALON Block, CALON Plain and the CALON Speed are now ready for (private) use.
Acquired by MoMA, the Met, Swarthmore College, Lafayette College, Rhode Island School of Art and Design, SAIC Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Oslo National Academy of the Arts and Chelsea UAL.
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REGENERATION! Conversations, Drawings, Archives & Photographs from Robin Hood Gardens
Jessie Brennan
Edition of five hundred and fifty, 2015Architectural plans, photographs by a former resident, drawings by Brennan and essays chart the sociopolitical status of Robin Hood Gardens, built as a council housing estate in Poplar,
East London. An exploration informed by local residents into lived-in Brutalism and the personal impact of redevelopment. Recorded interviews and doormat rubbings – form a starting point for engaging conversations.Acquired by the Oslo National Academy of the Arts Library, the Met, MoMA, the SAIC Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Rhode Island School of Art and Design and Chelsea UAL.
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Repetition & Recollection…
Jane Grisewood
Edition of thirty, 2016Inspired by Søren Kierkegaard’s Repetition, an insightful dialectic and paradox published in 1843. Recollection is confined to the past – or is it bringing the past into the present, whilst Repetition is constantly moving forward; or is it connecting the past to the future?
Acquired by the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection.
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Sculptures
€35.00
Alessandro Rizzi
Published by Yard Press
Edition of five hundred, 2015Photographs shot over the time span of a few hours in Washington D.C. on December 13th 2014, during the civil rights protests that took place in the capital after the fatal shooting and civil unrest originating in Ferguson, Missouri.
Acquired by the Met, MoMA, the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Lafayette College, Swarthmore College and the SAIC Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection.
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Simultanéité
€520.00
Patrizia Meinert
Edition of twenty, 2014The leporello demonstrates coexistence between time and space when turning the page over a 180 degree rotation. Every page contains a circle and when closed all the pages form one circle.
Acquired by Boston Athenaeum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Smoke Screen
Paul Paper
Published by Lodret Vandret
Edition of two hundred, 2015What does it mean to live in a world where the digital screen is so prominent? Smoke Screen is a subjective exploration into the condition of digital screenship.
Acquired by the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, MoMA and the Met.
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Still
Kasia Klimpel
Edition of two hundred and fifty, 2014Inspired by clichés, Klimpel recreates images of nature in the studio by photographing paper sculptures. These fake shots of imposing mountains, colourful fields or a swarm of birds become part of an ongoing production of our collective visual experience.
Acquired by the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, the V&A Museum’s National Art Library, Oslo National Academy of the Arts’ Library, Lafayette College, Swarthmore College, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art.
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Still – Ten Watercolours
Manfred Naescher
Published by Distance Over Time
Edition of fifty, 2014A series of allegorical still lifes based on imagery found in action films like Terminator and Die Hard. As the flowers and plants – mute witnesses of violent scenes performed in front of them – take centre stage, action becomes still life.
Acquired by Swarthmore College and MoMA.
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Tectonic
€50.00
Johan Rosenmunthe
Edition of one thousand, 2015
Published by SelfPublishBeHappyA mysterious and mesmerising exploration into the power of stones, their symbolism, healing powers and geological beauty. Rosenmunthe’s photographs are accompanied by Mary Anne Atwood’s ‘A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery’, to harness the alchemical power asserted by the re-printed text.
Acquired by the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Lafayette College, Swarthmore College and Brooklyn Museum.
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The biggest form has no contour
Randi Annie Strand
Edition of thirty-five, 2012A series of blind embossed maps, inspired by the Braille principle of reading with the tactile senses, are accompanied by Jorge Luis Borges’ short story On Exactitude in Science, a literary forgery describing the relationship between geographical territory and the mapping of it.
Acquired by Rhode Island School of Art and Design and Swarthmore College.
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The Games
Christian Tunge
Edition of one hundred, 2016Found material from the Olympic Games, including stories and myths surrounding the sporting event are presented graphic and conceptual exercises in its own right. Playing with sequencing, picture association and symbolism, the publication focuses on the Games function as both an outlet and trigger for conflict.
Acquired by MoMA and the Oslo National Academy of the Arts Library.
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Töchter
€42.00
Clara Bahlsen
(Daughters)
Edition of three hundred, 2013The question of family origins, and its significance to biography, is underpinned by correspondence between constructed ‘house’ sculptures and portraits of young women. Bahlsen reveals interior worlds with ample space for freely associative interpretation.
Acquired by the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, Lafayette College and the Museum of Modern Art.