«…Tatsächlich sind die assoziativen Bindungen zwischen Gewebe und Textualität sehr eng: etymologisch stammt das Wort Text der lateinischen Vokabel textum ab, dem Partizip des Verbs texere, das „weben, flechten; kunstvoll zusammenfügen“ bedeutet…»
«How is a book similar to a film? The range of back-and-forth relatioinships that can be established between print media – books, comics, posters, postcards, etc. – and cinema, video and other audiovisual formats clears the way for an extremely broad workspace, wich a large number of artists have assiduously traversed since the invention of cinematography at the end of the nineteenth century…»
«…El corpus poético de Pino, aparecido en numerosos volúmenes de poemas y en colaboraciones con revistas, siguió desarrollándose por los cauces esperados para un poeta de vanguardia hasta 1970, momento en que, con la publicación de Solar —a la edad de 68 años—, su trabajo dio un nuevo e importante giro experimental…»
«El archivo, en sus numerosísimas manifestaciones posibles, es el repositorio por excelencia de la memoria y el recuerdo, herramientas indispensables en la construcción de la identidad tanto individual como colectiva. Entre los soportes en los que los documentos del archivo, a su vez, atrapan y fijan en el tiempo los recuerdos, la fotografía ocupa desde su invención un lugar…»
«One day in 2004, Gesa Lange was invited to visit the estate of a good friend’s family. The property comprised a house and several adjacent buildings – a stable, various out-buildings and sheds. Noticing Lange’s interest in these run-down edifices…»
«The artist book was conceived together the work with the same title, produced for the occasion of the exhibition The Second Image, presented at Museu Serralves, Porto, in 2012. The work, an original drawing – graphite on paper – in twelve parts, subsequently transferred to offset prints…»
«Manuel Raeder has been working on publishing and design projects for more than 15 years. He has run his own design office, Studio Manuel Raeder, since 2009, and in 2013 founded the publishing label Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite , a platform for challenging…»
“En la primera década de los 2000 Dora García inició una serie de obras, realizadas a partir de volúmenes de obras literarias, que ha proseguido ampliando hasta la actualidad. En esta serie, además de materializar su constante interés por estudiar los fenómenos vinculados al lenguaje y la comunicación, la artista pone en juego su habilidad para explorar…”
«Venecia, mayo de 2015: la 56 edición de la exposición internacional de arte se inaugura entre los destellos de las cámaras fotográficas y el relumbre de los invitados vip. Pocos días después comienzan a aparecer, tanto en la prensa diaria como en la especializada, numerosas críticas y reseñas. De ellas se desprende que la impresión que parece haber calado entre los comentaristas es que esta edición de la Bienal…»
The exhibition This is the Cover of the Book, which I curated together with Moritz Küng, presented ca. 50 books – artists’ books, photobooks and reference books – that are related in different ways to artists’ book publishing. The title refers to the seminal Book by George Brecht (New York, 1926-Cologne, 2008), published in 1964/1972 … Continued
«In June 2013, Jamie Allen and Bernhard Garnicnig took three steps to set in motion the collaborative, fragmented and remotely controlled project My Holy Nacho. To start with, they selected six different used objects that were being sold on well-known web pages. Then…»
The core of My Holy Nacho, an artistic project by Jamie Allen and Bernhard Garnicnig, is “immaterial” work: remote, delocalized, triggered only by instructions sent by digital means. Over more than a year, these two artists commissioned various services from successive industrial suppliers throughout the world, limiting their communication to mere emails. My contribution to … Continued
In 2015, an agreement was reached so that the documenta Archive, which had been dependent on the Kassel City Council since its creation, would be transferred to the organization responsible for the documenta exhibitions. That same year I was commissioned to carry out a comprehensive study which would reflect the current status of the archive, … Continued
«…El arranque de los fondos documentales de La Panera coincidió con la cuarta edición de la Biennal Leandre Cristòfol, celebrada en 2004. Aquella fue la edición de la Biennal en la que por primera vez se incluyeron publicaciones de artista en la exposición…»
«Hará unos diez meses, un día llamé a mi padre por teléfono. Quería contarle que me había llegado una invitación para las Norton Lectures de Harvard. “Y…”, me replicó, “¿vas a tener algo que decir?”…»
«La conferencia performativa es un subgénero de la performance en el que los recursos, la técnica y las herramientas de las conferencias académicas se ponen al servicio de la práctica artística. Las conferencias performativas suelen echar mano…»
Autor, actor, lector. El camino de la performance al libro surge del encargo que recibí del Centro de Documentación de La Panera para realizar el capítulo 5 de la panera online, una serie de exposiciones en forma de vídeo dedicadas al libro de artista.
«Such was the panorama at the dawn of the new millennium: despite the evidence of the inextricable relation between work and document in the artistic output of the 20th century, in Spain – and in Latin America for that matter – there were hardly any important bibliographic collections for documenting it…»
«…When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969 / Venice 2013, abierta al público entre junio y noviembre de 2013 en la sede veneciana de la Fundación Prada, es un ejemplo particularmente interesante de esta tendencia. El reto, en este caso, consistía en “recuperar” la mítica exposición de 1969…»
Early in 2013, I was invited to curate and present Book Showcase #3, a selection of books which would be presented in the context of the exhibition Intervened Library, for which the curatorial collective Hablar en arte had invite a number of artists to intervene on already existing books, thereby creating one-of-a-kind artist publications. For … Continued
«…Otras son, quizás, menos tangibles, y por ello parecen haber desempeñado un papel menos visible en este cambio de orientación; así, el desmesurado crecimiento del turismo de masas y su consiguiente arribada en tromba a los museos de arte contemporáneo…»
«…And it is not often the case that the collector’s activities are linked to those of the editor, although both, in essence, devote themselves to quite similar work: at the end of the day, what is an editor if not a “collector” of content carefully ordered and chosen from abundant material to be included in a particular context…»
«A partir de 1999, la idea de crear un centro de documentación que reuniese no solo publicaciones de referencia, sino también libros de artista, publicaciones especiales y todo tipo de material documental, pasó a formar parte de los planes de crecimiento del Museo, al mismo tiempo que el interés por la documentación vinculada al arte contemporáneo…»
«…The first magazine, entitled WC, which referred to the famous Fontaine (1917) by Marcel Duchamp, was a collective project that spanned five issues and adopted the format of an envelope which included wood engravings, collages, graphic compositions, foldable leaflets and texts-manifestos…»
«…The first magazine, entitled WC, which referred to the famous Fontaine (1917) by Marcel Duchamp, was a collective project that spanned five issues and adopted the format of an envelope which included wood engravings, collages, graphic compositions, foldable leaflets and texts-manifestos…»
The legacy of the versatile poet, playwright and visual artist Joan Brossa (Barcelona, 1919-1998), transferred to the MACBA Study Center in early 2012, is an excellent example of an archive whose structure simply blasts classical, straightforward classifications based on the typology of archive items. Brossa’s library, his personal archive and his art collection, impossible to … Continued
Between 1983 and 1993, Antoni Muntadas (Barcelona, 1942) interviewed 156 professionals from the art world, and then edited the more than 200 ensuing hours of video footage, cutting them into eight chapters that, in total, amount to around 40 min of video recordings. These went on to form part of the installation Between the Frames: … Continued
Artist Miralda’s archive encompasses souvenirs, fragments of his art works, books, cooking and eating artefacts from all over the world, artist’s publications, contributions by visitors to his many interactive installations, photographs, press clippings… In 2011, Miralda requested the MACBA Study Center to help him create a database which would manage such a complex pattern of … Continued
When the Catalan photographer Xavier Miserachs (Barcelona, 1937) passed away, in 1998, he left behind almost fifty years of professional practice, and an archive of over 80.000 photographic negatives. In 2010, it was my role to start a conversation with Miserachs’s heirs, previously approached through MACBA advisors, so as to draft a plan with a … Continued
This text was published in the 10th volume of the “Impasse” series – published by La Panera in Lleida –, which was edited by Glòria Picazo and bears the exhaustive title of Artist’s Books, Special Editions, Object Magazines, Editorial Projects, Independent Editions, Publications Specials, Limited Editions, Desktop Publishing, Artist Editions, Digital Publications…
«Esta transformación, evidente sobre todo en prácticas como la performance, el happening, etc., ha tenido profundas consecuencias que llegan hasta la actualidad, en tanto que ha otorgado un nuevo estatus a la documentación que ilustra eventos creativos de esta índole, asimilándola a la “obra de arte” en muchos sentidos…»