The ARCO catalogue is dead, long live the ARCO catalogue!

“…Thus, the ARCO catalogue functions, to a certain extent, as a paper replication of the fair’s space. Although the correspondence between the large three-dimensional volume that the fair occupies and the much smaller two-dimensional surface that unfolds in the printed volume is far from direct, the fact is that one moves through the catalogue’s pages in a similar way to how one would wander through the aisles of the fair halls: sometimes with a plan and a destination, sometimes by intuition or impulse, without following a strict order, flipping through the pages of some galleries just once (or never) and returning to others repeatedly, perhaps without consciously intending to do so…”