Oxford Exchange Bookshop The race for finding the right mix to compete in the ever changing publishing / bookselling world of the 21st century continues as both Rizzoli and Phaidon make moves to extend their reach. Rizzoli has announced that it is partnering with the upscale Tampa, Florida bookshop the Oxford Exchange. The new "Studio" site will occupy half of the shop's floor space and feature only Rizzoli publications. As the online space expands and the retail avenues shrink it becomes imperative for publishers like Rizzoli to find ways for people to interact physically with their books. Look for more of these...
Future Library: Publication date 2114
Scottish artist Katie Paterson is a patient women. Her current project Future Library will take 100 years to consummate! You heard right; a century from inception to completion. Here's the deal: A forest has been planted in Norway, which will supply paper for a special anthology of books to be printed in one hundred years time. Between now and then, one writer every year will contribute a text, with the writings held in trust, unpublished, until 2114. The texts will be held in a specially designed room in the New Public Deichmanske Library in Oslo. Tending the forest and ensuring its...
Latin America 1960-2013. Photos + Text
León Ferrari, from the series "Nevermore," 1995. Inscriptions written on photocopy The latest exhibit at Museo Amparo, Latin America 1960-2013. Photos + Text, features over 400 works from 71 artists from 11 countries who "address the complexity of this plural and heterogeneous territory." Through the prism of the relationship between the text and the photographic image, the exhibition shows the important role that this dialectic has played in Latin America. The connections between photography and literature have been explored by Horacio Fernandez who has underlined the importance of the use of photography for writers such as Pablo Neruda, Nicanor Parra...
Straightjacket by Joseph DeCamillis
Joseph DeCamillis is a self described life-long reader. He was on the creative writing path when the art bug got him and he's never looked back. For the last 10 plus years his focus has been on book inspired art. One jewel is his autobiographical Straightjacket, an assemblage of hardback book covers and various items of deconstructed clothing. DeCamillis had two criteria for choosing the books used: 1. Reading the book had a major impact on his personality at some stage of his life 2. Title and/or subject of the book connects to some piece of his past. His tag line for the piece is...
Bookworks of Maskull Lasserre
Image II, 2007 . books, frame, twine "My work is always halfway between a song and a punch" says Canadian sculpture Maskull Lasserre. From his serene well groomed and painted works to his sculptures featuring carved and altered books Lasser blends "elements of nostalgia, accident, humor, and the macabre... into works that induce strangeness in the familiar, and provoke uncertainty in the expected." Here's some song and some punch for your enjoyment: Harlequin, 2007. Political ideology texts, steel Vanishing Point, 2010. Pencil on the sanded edge of compressed newspapers In March 2010, Lasserre traveled to Kandahar province in Afghanistan for two weeks as...