Doubles Pages Exhibition at Ecole des Beaux-arts in Rennes, France.
Curated by Christoph Keller / Kiosk. 50 Graphic Artist, 100 Artist Books, 10 Years. January 2008
Request sent to Stripe:
Dear Stripe,
I hope you’re both doing well, and that you will accept and have the time to consider participating in this new project.
We are currently preparing an exhibition (and possible book project) for January 2008. The project focuses on the mediation of contemporary art through graphic design and will attempt to investigate their relationships through the viewpoint of graphic designers working in that field.
Basically, we are trying to put together a visual manifestation of the importance of design aspects in the printed presentation and communication of contemporary art in book form.
We would like to invite you to contribute to this project.
Our aim is to create a very simple—while playful and experimental—format of exhibition (and possible book): We are asking about 50 graphic designers from around the world—actually the ones that we believe have the most significantly contributed to the development of graphic design in the specific field of art books in the last 10 years—to select 2 contemporary art books, to make one photograph of the most interesting double page of each book and to send us these images. Our idea is that the gathered pictures of double pages will constitute a kind of imaginary book.
We would be extremely happy and honored if you would consider participating in this project.
If so, here is what we would like to ask you to do:
1. select two books on contemporary art published in the past 10 years, choose one double page from both of these books,
2. make a digital photograph of each of these two spreads in the highest possible quality and resolution. The images will be printed by us in the size 40 x 50 cm on a high quality ink jet printer.
3.provide the following information in a separate text file:
a. Author, title, publisher, graphic designer, year, for both books you have chosen.
b. A few lines explaining the motivation of your choices.
The exhibition will take place in Rennes, France, at the Art School’s gallery, concurrently to the KIOSK-archive presentation which we organize in the same city.
We hope that the collected photographs will provide a spontaneous while reflected “snapshot” of recent art publications through the designers’eye.
We really sincerely hope that you will be willing to take part in this project.
With our best regards,
Christoph Keller
Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié
Catherine de Smet
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50 Contributors:
Ade Hauser Lacour [Francfort-sur-le-Main], Main], Antoine+Manuel [Paris], Philipp Arnold [Berlin], Stuart Bailey [New York], Ludovic Balland [Bâle], Jean-Marc Ballée [Paris], Peter Bilak / Typotheque [La Haye], Bluemark [Tokyo], Julia Born [Amsterdam], Change is Good [Paris], Sara De Bondt [Londres], deValence / Alexandre Dimos & Gaël Étienne [Paris], Daniel Eatock [Londres], Elektrosmog [Zurich], Gavillet & Rust [Genève], Will Holder [Londres], Jiang Hua [Pékin], Pierre Huyghebaert / Speculoos SPRL [Bruxelles], Fei Jun [Pékin], Erik Kessels / KesselsKramer [Amsterdam], Kummer & Herrman [Utrecht], Labomatic [Paris], Aude Lehmann [Zurich], Lehni-Trüb / Urs Lehni und Lex Trüb [Zurich], Lieuxcommuns / Jocelyn Cottencin & Richard Louvet [Rennes], Joseph Logan [New York], Jonathan Maghen / Text?eld [Los Angeles], Mike Meiré [Cologne], Mevis & Van Deursen [Amsterdam], Maureen Mooren [Amsterdam], Müller & Wesse / Stephan Müller [Berlin], NORM / Dimitri Bruni & Manuel Krebs [Zurich], Warren Olds / Studio Ahoy [Newton, Auckland], Prill & Vieceli / Tania Prill, Alberto Vieceli [Zurich], Conny Purtill / Purtill Family Business [Philadelphie], Yvonne Quirmbach [Cologne], Manuel Raeder [Berlin], Raffinerie AG für Gestaltung [Zurich], Regular / Jean-Marie Courant [Paris], David Reinfurt / Dexter Sinister, O-R-G [New York], Alex Rich [Cardiff], Georg Rutishauser [Zurich], Secondary Modern [Londres], Benjamin Sommerhalder / Nieves [Zurich], Spector / Markus Dreßen [Leipzig], Christoph Steinegger / Interkool [Hambourg], Martha Stutteregger [Vienne], Stripe / Jon Sueda & Gail Swanlund [Los Angeles], TEAM TCHM [Rotterdam], Frédéric Teschner [Paris], Alexia de Visscher / Speculoos SPRL [Bruxelles], Vier5 [Paris], Markus Weisbeck / Surface [Francfort-sur-le-Main / Berlin], Dorothea Weishaupt [Bâle], Lorraine Wild [Los Angeles], Roger Willems [Amsterdam], Michael Worthington / Counterspace [Los Angeles].
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Our Selections:
Title: Jennifer Tee EVOL EYE LANDS END
Publisher: Artimo
Designed by: Richard Niessen
Year: 2004
This unique collaboration between Jennifer and Richard take us on a enchanted road trip to through their visual conversations. This catalogue makes garden-variety, carefully crafted art catalogues look fussy and insufferably "smart." How often do we have the pleasure of being disoriented or surprised? How often do artists realize that design can be a cheerful pal, instead of the steady polite butler?
Title: Uta Barth . . . and of time
Publisher: Uta Barth
Designed by: Michael Worthington
Year: 2000
Uta's work is immeasurably still and could easily be overwhelmed. Michael's lovely pacing—a canon or an adagio and sustained, quietly pulsing color pallete is sympathetic and perfect for this work.
