Centre d’édition contemporaine in Geneva offers DIRECTIONAL ADVICE, a new edition by Jonathan Monk.
JONATHAN MONK—DIRECTIONAL ADVICE, serigraph, signed edition of 150, available through March 3.
CENTRE D’ÉDITION CONTEMPORAINE, 15 rue des Rois, Geneva.
Jonathan Monk, previous editions:
Jonathan Monk, Directional Advice, 2017. Image credit: Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva.
On Friday evening, June 30, join Jean-Michel Wicker at Section 7 for the Paris launch of his artist’s book #picturebook1.*
JEAN-MICHEL WICKER, #picturebook1, Friday, June 30, 6 PM.
SECTION 7 BOOKS. 31, passage Ponceau, Paris, 2nd.
section7books.com
*Artist’s book, French/English, edition of 500.
An “arbre de vie” produced by Jean-Michel Wicker in collaboration with Marlie Mul, a text by Harry Burke, and a recipe for Alsatian plum pie by Charlotte Wicker.
Offset, 27 × 28.5 cm, 396 pages, (360 in color, 36 in b/w) on LuxoArt Silk 150 g/m2 paper, glossy color cover, LuxoArt Silk 350 g/m2, 10 color inserts, 26.5 × 28 cm, LuxoArt Silk 130 g/m2.
Graphic design: Maximage Société Suisse, London. Printing: DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg, Altenburg. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, June 2017.
On June 1, the Centre d’édition contemporaine in Geneva presents a new artist’s book from Jean–Michel Wicker, #PICTUREBOOK1, an overview of Wicker’s recent work.
“Playing with multiple typographic combinations and layouts that spill over several pages….#PICTUREBOOK1 disseminates comments on and questions about recurring themes like identity, sexuality, autonomy, freedom, resistance, and transgression in the larger and richer field of culture and anti-culture. While the different assemblages of letters offer multiple typographic études like musical scales, the repetitive system is put to the test, creating nearly abstract geometrical pages. The artist’s #PICTUREBOOK1 likewise features sketches and freer drawings, and lays out images, details, and signs that appear from one page to the next, a surprising variation on the page layout.”*
JEAN–MICHEL WICKER—#PICTUREBOOK1 presentation, Thursday, June 1, at 6 pm.
CENTRE D’ÉDITION CONTEMPORAINE GENÈVE, 15 rue des Rois, Quartier des Bains, Geneva
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Jean-Michel Wicker, from his e industrial show (2014) at Cubitt Gallery, London, and reproduced in #picturebook1.
Image credit: Cubitt Gallery, and Jean-Michel Wicker
Jakob Kolding—a Danish artist with recent shows in Berlin (ACUD), Chicago (Neubauer Collegium), Los Angeles and New York (Team Gallery)—and the Centre d’édition contemporaine in Geneva present the new exhibition THE OUTSIDE OR THE INSIDE OF THE INTERNALISED EXTERNALISED.
For this show, Kolding proposes “a scenography reminiscent of 19th century dioramas or the photomontages of the Théâtre Alfred Jarry, a small theatre that will fill all [the] exhibition spaces and be visible from outside, both as an installation and a public artwork. Several scaled up or down ‘standing’ silhouettes—Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges, Yvonne Rainer, Carl Andre, Lygia Clark, Édouard Manet, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Sigmund Freud, etc.—will be grouped on this stage set, creating an interplay of juxtapositions and gaps….illustrative of Jakob Kolding’s extended vocabulary of literary, philosophical, artistic or personal references, and encouraging a sociological, cultural and aesthetic interrogation of the use of space.
“Through a proven practice of collage extended to the exhibition space, Kolding proposes dynamic confrontations drawn from a variety of sources—the paintings of Caravaggio, the architecture of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the music of performers such as Arthur Russell and LL Cool J. These collisions—remixed in a highly-advanced montage aesthetic, and operating between a form of cultural dominance and spontaneous, humorous resistance—give his collages a fast-moving, quasi-musical and choreographic rhythm.”*
JAKOB KOLDING—THE OUTSIDE OR THE INSIDE OF THE INTERNALISED EXTERNALISED, Nuit de Bains opening preview, Thursday, May 18 at 6 pm.
Exhibition runs from May 19 through September 30.
CENTRE D’ÉDITION CONTEMPORAINE GENÈVE, Quartier des Bains, Geneva.
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Jakob Kolding, Houseplants, 2017
© Jakob Kolding
Image credit: CEC Genève