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Wall to Wall: Carpets by Artists is curated by Dr. Cornelia Lauf and features work from a wide cross-section of contemporary artists and their weaving partners, taking as its point of departure a history of art, rather than a history of medium. The carpet will be used as a pedagogical device to show how artists can integrate deep philosophical and formal resolutions into the very nature of an object and its material.Wall to Wall re

from fanzines to books of visual poetry, sketchbooks to illustrated books, commercial fashion catalogs to photo albums. Defined loosely as a book done by an artist, which is itself a work of art, an "artist's book" is an idea that goes back to the time of illuminated manuscripts. Departing from that tradition however, which ended with the development in the 19th century of the livre de luxe, artists since the 1960's have attempted radical approaches to the book as autonomous art form. Spurred on in recent times by the advent of desktop publishing, this phenomena has continued to grow. This book features numerous examples, as well as informative text, and is sure to delight both bibliophiles and art lovers alike.

Designed by the founder of Conceptual Art, this elegant and precious artist's book?and exhibition catalogue?serves as a visual analysis of the conceptual structures that interrogate the nature of colour, form, space, and time, where the works and writings of Post-war artists such as Castellani, Fontana, Manzoni, and Klein, converse with Kosuth's statements, and the theoretical as well as personal account of curator Cornelia Lauf.00Exhibition: Mazzoleni, London, UK (19.05. - 28.07.2017) / Mazzoleni, Turin, Italy (31.10.2017-20.01.2018).

Tiré du site Internet de Three Star Books: "Olivier Mosset is an unassuming but pivotal figure since the 1960s, in the discussion on how exactly the artwork should socially and aesthetically function. His work for Three Star Books is a highly contemporary do-it-yourself book in the spirit of much work being produced today, both by individual artists, and collaborative projects. In this book, the spectator can complete the work (or not). The small ensuing sculptures, a coda to the long line of monumental pieces Mosset produced on the same theme, is whimsically small and light, in comparison to its precedents. But here is where Mosset's act reveals itself as a cerebral one. While the Toblerone sculptures are references to the Swiss national past, and to the military bunkers that dot the Swiss landscape, their very repetition reveals their most interesting facet : context. In a smooth act of near-industrializing a sculptural process, Mosset has placed Toblerones in a long line of austere and culturally important places, as well as executing them in various media, from ice to steel. The present version is executed in one grey color picked by Mosset, and constitutes a form no less significant in the artist's repertoire. And each context will differ, depending on the location of its fabrication and reader.

Tiré du site de Three Star Books: "Object is a board book that almost forms a sandwich - with a hole punched in the middle. Each page reproduces one object selected by Steinbach, and photographed head-on, as a portrait. The sixty-one images in this two-kilogram book constitute one of the most moving and autobiographical accounts of the personal journey of Steinbach. A picture book, a dictionary, a self-portrait, and a lesson in art-making."