KÜNG, Moritz (ed.)
Blank. Raw. Illegible... Artists' Books as Statements (1960–2022)

Blank. Raw. Illegible... Artists' Books as Statements (1960-2022) focuses on the blank book as an artistic medium. The number of 259 artists’ books on display, among others by Michael Asher, Luciano Bartolini, Irma Blank, Marcel Broodthaers, Ulises Carrión, Olafur Eliasson, Ryan Gander, Dora Garcia, Martin Kippenberger, Sara MacKillop, Piero Manzoni, Bruce Nauman, Olaf Nicolai, Ed Ruscha, Simon Starling, and Heimo Zobernig refers to the legendary exhibition "Book as Artwork 1960/72" curated by Germano Celant and Lynda Morris; here, curator Moritz Küng explores the qualities of the blank, the raw, the illegible, the empty, the unprinted, the tautological, the hermetic, the dysfunctional, and the mysterious.

This publication accompanied a show at the the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum in Düren.

Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2023
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