B

Belmacz is pleased to present an exhibition dedicated to artist publications.

B is for Book, and in the Beginning was the word. The written word, and then the printed word; and now, the digital word.

Since the scroll became a codex in late Antiquity, artists have been associated with the published word.The illuminated manuscript stirred curlicue lettering and gilded marginalia and the artist publication is a slippery mutation of this — an ongoing investigation into the gap between visual and written language, existing outside thetic categories.

Often self-published, produced single-handedly or through a small press — B brings together pieces which reference the thingliness of the book without being confined to seriality or sequence. B marks both the collaborative and the singular, where processes and materials can consist of reams of A4 from a photocopier, stapled shut to the letter pressed and hand bound. B cuts out the middle-man.

B is an opposition to the muscular catalogue raisonne — all fur coat and no knickers. These objects are space for both the hidden and the seen; they are to be unpacked, unfolded, unfurled — offering a spine to crack or a concertina run on — turned upside down, inside out, read between the lines. Laconic or verbose — an invitation to misunderstand in the age of Information is Power.

B is a presentation of objects which could be bought or could be given away for free. Objects which could be collected, displayed, stored, hoarded, boxed. But B is also a presentation of viral objects sent out to the world, left on the tube, given to a friend who might be interested — love notes.

— Georgia Sowerby
July, 2019

A diverse program of book launches, readings, workshops and suppers is accompanying the exhibition. See @belmaczmayfair for schedules listed from early September.

Artists:

20th Century Art Archives
Abbas Zahedi
Agata Madejska
Alaa Abu Asad & Ulufer Çelik
Anastasia Pavlou
Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin
Belmacz
Black Pages
Camilla Løw
Caragh Thuring
Carla Åhlander
Charlott Weise & Franziska Schulz
Claudia Kugler
Coco Crampton
Daniel Ferstl
David Tremlett
Diagonal Press
Elisabeth Molin
Emma McCormick-Goodhart
Fehras Publishing Practices
Georgia Sowerby
Gernot Wieland
Gregorio Magnani
Guilherme Dable
Hanna Mattes
Hansjörg Meyer
Joel Tomlin
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger
Kellenberger-White
KOSA & Marius Engh
Liam Tickner
Lina Viste Grønli
Long Distance Press
Marco Bruzzone
Michalis Pichler
Michela de Mattei
Mikael Brkic
Morten Skrøder Lund
Nicole Wermers
Null Zero
Private: Oskar Korsár
Paul Housley
Paul Kindersley
Philipp Fleischmann
Postcard Teas
Ricardo de Carli
Rorhof
Rowena Hughes
Salvatore Viviano
Sam Austen
Samuel Stokes
saxpublishers
Simon Popper
Slavs & Tatars
Sophie Nys
Steph Huang
Telfer Stokes
The Everyday Press
Tim Berresheim

Private View: Tues 10 Sept, 6 — 8pm

Press Release

Installation View
Installation View
Georgia Sowerby
Letters, 2019

glass, metal, acrylic paint, plaster
Installation View
Simon Popper
Red E, 2019

fabric under perspex
Coco Crampton
Snake Bite, 2019

wood, oil paint, LED light bulb
Installation View
Abbas Zahed
Manna from below, 2019

poem
Installation View
Installation View
Installation View
Installation View
Installation View
Tony Gwilliam
Far From Boring, 2015

handmade aluminium box with hardcover publication
Daniel Ferstl
Calypso, 2019

ink drawings and stamps on cardboard, wool, cardboard, yarn and leather imitation
Paul Kindersley
Stoned Faces, 2016

pencil on folded paper
Morten Skrøder Lund
Present, 2018

ink pen marks with cut pages and a candy fitting the proportions
Carla Åhlander
Learning by doing, 2019

limited edition photo book
Carla Ȧhlander / Gernot Wieland
Untitled, 2019

softcover
Michela de Mattei
Simone Weil, 2019

ink on paper
Telfer Stokes
Missing Craft, 1991

hardcover
Belmacz and Steph Huang
The Ashtray Show West, 2019

softcover
KOSA & Marius Engh
Bohemia, 2019

softcover
Diagonal Press
Z Helix, 2014

hardcover
Emma McCormick-Goodhart
The Book Is A Body House, 2019

unlimited edition of stamped matchbooks
Installation View
Installation View
Coco Crampton
Donkey Ride, 2007

MDF, wood, household paint, fluorescent tubes

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