David JourdanPigpen Wien, Westphalie, 200919,9 × 26,9 cm1 page500 ex.What if the Italian counterculture and comics magazine Linus and its French brother Charlie had a German-speaking relative? Could Pigpen, the unmistakable dirty kid amongst the Peanuts, always scruffy and surrounded by a cloud of dust, be the herald of this magazine? Such speculations are a […]
Jan Voss, Wartelist, 1984Johanna Drucker uses _Wartelist_ as an exemplar for the importance of sequence in Artists' Books in her _The Century of Artists' Books_: "When you purchase Wartelist you can purchase as many interior sheets as you like—thus shortening or extending the wait the person at the bus stop has. The additional sheets are all […]
Odi de Orazio untitled, 1970 s/t, 1971palimpsest roma "Garatujas" de Cy Twombly. Por ocasião da 23ª Bienal de São Paulo em 1996, quando o artista apresentou algumas telas como estas, foi publicado em português o texto de Roland Barthes sobre Twombly:http://www.23bienal.org.br/especial/petw.htmDevemos considerar como surpresas todas as intervençõe […]
Conrad GleberRaising a Family, 1976flipbookThe idea of using the rapid, time-collapse photography of the flip book as a way to show family history is very funny. But taking the idea as a pun, and making the "raising" into a simple "rising" on the page, allowed Gleber to use a single image and progress it up the sheet. The result is smart, […]
Canção do Leste Álvaro Mutis Na curva da esquinaum anjo invisível espera;uma vaga neve, um pálido fantasmate dirá algumas palavras do passado.Como água de acéquia, o tempocava em ti seu árduo trabalhode dias e semanas,de anos sem nome e sem lembrança.Na curva da esquinate seguirá esperando inutilmenteesse que não foste, esse que morreude tanto ser tu mesmo […]
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