Izet Sheshivari https://izet.ch en-us Indexhibit Bio Izet Sheshivari graduated from the École des arts décoratifs (Geneva) in 2001. He won the prize for the best CFC in graphic design in Switzerland. He then pursued a bachelor's degree in visual communication at ECAL and worked as an assistant to Françoise Bridel at CFP Arts, where he developed a curriculum for experimental typography for six years. He has conducted workshops at various art schools in Switzerland and abroad, including ECAL in Lausanne, HEAD in Geneva, ENSBA in Lyon, The Royal School of Art in Stockholm, and Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem.
In addition to his teaching work, he has ventured into publishing, travelling across Europe, Japan, and the United States, with a six-month residency scholarships in New York in 2012.
He founded Boabooks in Geneva in 2007 and has since published more then hundred books and editions. He is also involved in international art book fairs through collaborations with edition fink, Jungle Books, and tria publishing platform. He is passionate about promoting artist books and has created The Liberated Page, an association dedicated to showcasing and archiving these works for researchers and art students to expand their knowledge in this specific field.

Exhibitions (curation)
Une saison graphique École supérieure d’arts et média de Caen/Cherbourg, 2019
Orphan Papers with Roland Früh, Sitterwerk Art Library, St-Gall, 2018
A Catwalk ECAL during Designing writings, 2017
The Next Page NYABF, MoMA PS1, 2016
The Liberated Page Le Commun, Genève, 2015
Together with Boabooks with Pierre Schwerzmann, SKOPIA Genève, 2014
You own me a book +, NYABF, MoMA PS1, 2013
Art-Rite 16 Printed Matter Inc., New-York, 2012
Blank Book Makers Fondrie Kugler, Genève, 2011
Close-Up Galerie Forde, Genève, 2010

Exhibitions (selection)
Behind the Pages with Miriam Sturzenegger, House of Books, Zürich, 2024
Boa’s new six with Françoise Bridel, House of Books, Zürich, 2023
L* plaisir du texte with Elizabeth Lebon, Musée des Beaux-Arts du Locle, 2022
Booknesses Artists’ books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection, Johannesburg, 2018
Le livre de photographie et ses auteurs Susanne Bieri, BNS Berne, 2015
The complete series of Boabooks artists’ notepads Circuit, Lausanne, 2015
Same same but different with Donatella Bernardi, Hard Hat, Genève, 2014
Unikat, Unicum. Livres d’artistes du Cabinet des estampes, BNS Berne, 2014
Bibliologie Jérôme Dupeyrat, Frac Haute-Normandie, 2014
The Book Affair Automatic Books, Biennale de Venise, San Lorenzo, 2013
Sir Thomas Trope A. Môle et J. Tiberi, Villa du Parc, Annemasse
D’après Giorgio Luca Lo Pinto, Casa Museo Giorgio de Chirico, Rome
Cosmotopia Donatella Bernardi, Bâtiment d’art Contemporain, Genève
Intérieur, neige Nicolas Giraud, Cneaï = Paris, 2011
England XXI Century Samuel Ostermann, Auckland Central Libraries, 2011
Wallpaperism with Nick Oberthaller, Motel Campo, Genève, 2011
Le livre à venir Stéphane Le Mercier, ESBAS, Strasbourg, 2011
Is a Show, is a Shop, is a Book Maja Wismer, Latvian Center, Riga, 2011
Boabooks Artist’s Notepads La Vitrine, Paris, 2011
Booked Up! Daniel Baumann, New Jerseyy, Bâle, 2011
La marge d’erreur Le Bureau/, La Synagogue de Delme, 2011

Scholarships, prizes and residencies
The Liberated Page support fund OFC and République et canton de Genève 2022
Fair Enough Japan distribution support, Pro Helvetia, 2020
Fair Enough World Tour distribution support, Pro Helvetia, 2019
The Next Page Exhibition at MoMA PS1, Queen, Pro Helvetia, 2017
Boabooks nomination federal design awards, 2016
The Liberated Page nomination federal art award, 2015
The Most Beautiful Swiss Books Pierre Schwerzmann, 2014
Residence in New York, Service de la culture du canton de Genève DIP, 2012
Grant for the project Les livres dont vous n’êtes pas le héros., 2012
Mediation grant for the exhibition Blank Book Makers, 2011
Grant Berthoud, Lissignol-Chevalier & Galland Genève, 2009

Teaching and seminars (selection)
The Liberated Page, Centre de la photographie, Genève, 2024
Fair Enough Swiss Tour several locations in Switzerland, 2021
Fair Enough Japan Tour several locations in Japan, 2020
Master Type Design ECAL, Lausanne, 2019
Boabooks & The Liberated Page, Werkplaats Typografie, 2018
Designing Writing ECAL, Lausanne, 2017
About diagrams Masters CCC, HEAD, Genève, 2015
How to publish a book? Raster Galerie, Varsovie, 2013
Le livre de demain ENSBA (Lyon), 2013
On publishing The Royale School of Art Stockholm, 2012
Image-mouvement, image-temps, HEAD, Genève, 2010
Boabooks notepad’s École des arts décoratifs, Strasbourg, 2010

Bibliography (selection)
Swiss Artists’ Books pp. 338-339, Susanne Bieri, Verlag Walther König, Köln 2022
La bibliothèque nationale suisse à 125 ans p. 163 OFC 2020
IDEA 393 international graphic art and typography Japan 2021
IDEA 390 Fair Enough / Guest with Books from Japan pp. 161-176
Boabooks – Des artistes et des livres pp. 84-87, F. Ninghetto in Kunst Bulletin 2018
Les livres et l’art – quelques Smacks®… in Backcover, 2009, n. 2 été



]]> https://izet.ch/infos/bio/ 2024-08-19 09:26:50 infos https://izet.ch/infos/ 2024-08-19 07:41:43 News
Edited by Susanne Bieri (Director of the Prints and Drawings Department and Special Collections at the Swiss National Library), this study of artists' books presents one hundred and twelve interviews. You can find out more about Izet Sheshivari and many other players in the field in this publication, which goes beyond the scope of this collection and is published by Der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne. ISBN 978-3-7533-0212-6


The Swiss National Library celebrated 125 years in 2020. The library published a book with various portraits, including Izet’s contribution about the fascinating “Literature colour keyboards” by Karl Gerstner. ISBN 978-3-908189-02-2



IDEA 393 International graphic art and typography Japan 2021/3 Izet Sheshivari wrote a contribution about a selection of books from the Japanese collective C(AB)r/a edition.nord & Rondade.


Des artistes et des livres Françoise Ninghetto article Boabooks — Des artistes et des livres published in kunstbulletin 6/2018.

]]> https://izet.ch/infos/news/ 2024-08-19 07:39:56 Together with Boabooks




Together with Boabooks
16.01.2014 – 1.03.2014
Skopia Gallery, Geneva ↗︎

For this exhibition, Izet Sheshivari was invited to present and display the integrality of Boabooks’ publications. As part of the collaborative process, a selection of the gallery’s artists’ books were also featured, with a particular emphasis on Franz Erhard Walther.

Most of the publications were available for sale. With books by Pierre-Olivier Arnaud, Silvia Bächli & Eric Hattan, Francis Baudevin, Erik Bulatov, Jean Crotti, Pierre André Ferrand, Franz Gertsch, Alex Hanimann, Thomas Huber, Alain Huck, Robert Ireland, Jean-Luc Manz, Claudio Moser, Olivier Mosset, Christoph Rütimann, Hinrich Sachs, Pierre Schwerzmann and Franz Erhard Walther.

During the exhibition, several artists published by Boabooks were invited to discuss their editorial experiences or present readings. Fabienne Radi, Izet Sheshivari, Thomas Huber, Pierre Schwerzmann, Pierre-Olivier Arnaud and Estéban Pages all participated in these events.

The book Pierre Schwerzmann published by Boabooks in 2013 was presented during that exhibition.




]]> https://izet.ch/exhibitions/together-with-boabooks/ 2024-08-15 00:50:25 Art-Rite 16



Art-Rite 16
21.12.2012 to 14.01.2013
Printed Matter, New York ↗︎

Printed Matter is pleased to feature a presentation of the complete catalogue of Boabooks. On the occasion, Izet Sheshivari will also launch a special reappropriation issue of Art-Rite Magazine, imagining what the missing issue No. 16 would have been had editors Joshua Cohn, Edit DeAk, and Walter Robinson produced it. The project was born from ongoing research by Izet Sheshivari into alternative New York presses and will result in a future exhibition. It follows Blank Book Makers, an exhibition held in 2012.

In addition to a presentation of books, Izet Sheshivari will exhibit a selection of special prints and editions.
This includes a project stemming from Inventory of Destruction, a folded newsprint comprised of short statements collected by Éric Watier recounting the destruction of various artworks. Five newsprint pages have been altered as the result of ink blotting when print rollers were voluntarily stopped mid-run.

Another work, Post Vinyle, presents the homemade picture discs of Swiss artist Frédéric Post produced under his pirate records label Miracole. From this edition, five copies contain a signed and numbered original handmade vinyl by Frédéric Post. The Fog is a Light Darkness looks at the nature of drawing through the sculptural paper installations of Miriam Sturzenegger. Five copies feature a wood case (wood, plaster, white paint), signed and numbered by the artist and presented during the show.

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Printed Matter a le plaisir de présenter le catalogue complet de Boabooks. À cette occasion, Izet Sheshivari lancera également un numéro spécial de réappropriation du magazine Art-Rite, imaginant ce qu'aurait été le numéro 16 (manquant) si les éditeurs Joshua Cohn, Edit DeAk, et Walter Robinson l'avaient produit. Ce projet est né des recherches de Izet Sheshivari sur les presses alternatives new-yorkaises et donnera lieu à une exposition. Il fait suite à l'exposition Blank Book Makers, qui s'est tenue en 2012.

En plus d'une présentation de livres, Izet Sheshivari exposera une sélection d'éditions. Notamment le projet issu de Inventory of Destruction, un papier journal plié composé de courtes déclarations collectionner par l'artiste français Éric Watier relatant la destruction de diverses œuvres d'art par les artistes eux-même. Huit pages de papier journal ont été altérées par des taches d'encre lorsque les rouleaux d'impression ont été volontairement arrêtés à mi-parcours.
Un autre ouvrage, Post Vinyle présente des picture discs artisanaux de l'artiste Frédéric Post produits par son label de disques pirates, Miracole. Dans cette édition, plusieurs exemplaires contiennent un vinyle original signé et numéroté de l'artiste. The Fog is a Light Darkness s'intéresse à la nature du dessin à travers les installations sculpturales en papier de Miriam Sturzenegger. Cinq exemplaires comprennent un coffret en bois (bois, plâtre, peinture blanche) signé et numéroté par l'artiste et présenté lors de l'exposition.




]]> https://izet.ch/exhibitions/art-rite-16/ 2024-08-15 00:42:35 The Next Page


The Next Page
15.09.2016 – 18.09.2016
NYABF, MoMA PS1, New York

The Next Page offers a dense and precise view of the contemporary creation of the artist's book, beyond its commercial character, it is a real encounter. The exhibition space is located within a historical perimeter for the artists who visit it, and the mixed audience of PS1 is very important. In fact, it is one of the most diverse and lively ephemeral bookstores to date.

The Next Page brought together a selection of works from eight Swiss publishers, six of whom had never before presented their books in the United States.
Within the context of the fair, the exhibition highlighted this selection of works by these publishers and created the tools necessary to mediate and immerse visitors. Of the 280 participants, only twelve were Swiss.

In this way, The Next Page highlighted its structures through curatorial articulation. This action was the most direct way of involving the Swiss publishers selected by The Next Page with the visitors to the exhibition in a coherent, fascinating and dynamic way, while also representing the association's past and future projects.
The Next Page catalogue presents questions developed in advance of the event through a selection of books by Izet Sheshivari. The book contains twenty-four specific questions to publishers and as many answers. They are reproduced here because they reflect important points in our thinking and concerns for the future of the artist's book.

What are the three most important questions to ask a publisher?
What stories interest you?
What is the future of type design?
In what way do you make a profit from your books?
What is your greatest expense?
What three pieces of advice would you give to artists who will make books in the future?
What has been the best question ever asked about artists’ books?
What is your latest experiment?
What do you enjoy about publishing books?
What are the artists’ book of your dreams?
If you only had the right to distribute your books in one country, which country would you choose?
Do you think there are any limits to what you can do?
How do you get readers’ attention?
Does your nationality influence your practice?
What do you think about territories and categories?
What do you like about printing?
Why is binding important?
What is the ultimate question?
What do you think about book swapping?
What do you think about intellectual property?
What do you read?
What do you think about working with famous artists?
What has been your greatest breakthrough?
Are you more afraid of police or printers?
Why did you become a publisher?
What is your editorial view of books as a medium?
What do you think about words and language?
How do you choose the authors you work with?
In your catalogue, which book should I read, and why?
When you design a book, what are your prevailing motivations?
Why did you become a publisher?
Do you think book publishers are bene tting from hyperlinks?

We the answers by publishers Mathieu Christe (Footnotes), Patrick Frey (Edition Patrick Frey), Georg Rutishauser (edition fink), Winfried Heininger (Kodoji Press), Jan Steinbach (Edition Taube), Philippe Karren (Spheres Projects), Izet Sheshivari (Boabooks), Benjamin Sommerhalder (Nieves) Guadalupe Ruiz, Adrien Horni (Turbo) Catherine Gottraux (Cadrat éditions) Samuel Bänziger & Olivier Hug (Jungle Books).




]]> https://izet.ch/exhibitions/the-next-page/ 2024-08-15 00:25:04 Close-Ups




Close-Ups – Boabooks
17.12.2010 – 8.01.2011
Forde, Geneva

For the last event of 2010, Forde invites the publishing house Boabooks and Izet Sheshivari. The bookshop Motto will be the venue for the temporary presentation of various projects: single copies, artists' books and multiples, magazines...
In this temporary bookshop, Izet Sheshivari will present artworks by Carola Bonfilli, Nicolas Giraud, Anne Minazio, Yann L. Popper, Fabienne Radi and Christophe Rey, as well as a collection of his own unique books and all the titles published by these artists with Boabooks. ↗︎

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Pour le dernier événement de l'année 2010, Forde invite la maison d'édition Boabooks et Izet Sheshivari. La librairie temporaire Motto sera le lieu de présentation de divers projets : exemplaires uniques, livres d'artistes et multiples, magazines...
Dans cette espace temporaire, Izet Sheshivari présentera des œuvres de Carola Bonfilli, Nicolas Giraud, Anne Minazio, Yann L. Popper, Fabienne Radi et Christophe Rey, ainsi qu'une collection de ses propres livres uniques et tous les titres publiés par ces artistes chez Boabooks. ↗︎





]]> https://izet.ch/exhibitions/close-ups/ 2024-08-15 00:20:54 Contact Izet Sheshivari
12 rue de Montbrillant
CH–1201 Genève
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]]> https://izet.ch/news/contact/ 2024-08-07 13:14:52 Exhibition

The Liberated Page is an association whose aim is to support and promote the intellectual and critical dissemination of independently published artists' books around the world. The association organises and designs events, conferences and exhibitions, such as The Liberated Page or A Catwalk. It focuses on new publishing practices in the field of contemporary art and on new forms of artists' books published around the world and their mediation.

The first exhibition, Blank Book Makers took place in 2012 in Geneva at the Fonderie Kugler. The Liberated Page is also a collective archive of bookworks in constant evolution and enrichment. Individuals or small groups who have a research project relating to artists' books are welcome to consult The Liberated Page archives free of charge. However, consultation of the archives is by appointment only.
You can send us an email indicating the date and time you would like to visit, as well as the number of people who would like to take part via this link. ↗︎
The Liberated Page will reply as quickly as possible, but please allow at least two weeks for a reply. So please don't make any trips before you receive a reply from us.

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The Liberated Page est une association qui a pour but de soutenir et de promouvoir la diffusion – intellectuelle et critique de livres d’artistes d’éditions indépendantes à travers le monde. L’association organise et conçoit des événements, conférences ou expositions, comme celles intitulées The Liberated Page et A Catwalk. Elle met l’accent sur les nouvelles pratiques dans l’édition dans le domaine de l’art contemporain et sur les nouvelles formes de livres d’artistes. La première exposition, Blank Book Makers a eu lieu en 2012 à Genève à la Fonderie Kugler.

The Liberated Page est également une archive de bookworks en constante évolution et enrichissement. Les personnes individuelles ou les petits groupes qui ont un projet de recherche en rapport aux livres d’artistes sont bienvenues et peuvent consulter les archives The Liberated Page gratuitement. Toutefois, les consultations d’archives ne se font que sur rendez-vous.
Vous pouvez nous envoyer un courriel en indiquant la date et l’heure souhaitée de votre visite, ainsi que le nombre de personnes qui souhaitent y prendre part, ici. ↗︎
The Liberated Page vous répondra aussi rapidement que possible, mais comptez au moins deux semaines pour recevoir une réponse. N’entreprenez donc pas de déplacement avant de recevoir une réponse de notre part.





]]> https://izet.ch/exhibitions/ 2024-08-07 13:13:50 A Catwalk







A Catwalk
1.06.2017 – 4.06.2017
ECAL/Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne

Following the invitation by ECAL/Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne and Alexandru Balgiu, Izet Sheshivari curated and set up The Liberated Page bookcase (24m) with the help of Simon Mager presenting 160 books and ephemera from the archive. Exploring the history and the evolution of writing in the field of contemporary art and practise, this exhibition took the form of a stroll, along the entire length of ECAL hall, to view a selection of book from my cabinet displayed in conversation or tête-à-tête.

Ask us to visit The Liberated Page archive by following the link. ↗︎
Photographies © ECAL, Younès Klouche




]]> https://izet.ch/exhibitions/a-catwalk/ 2024-08-07 13:13:24 Orphan Papers




Orphan Papers
12.11.2017 – 29.01.2018
Sitterwerk Art Library, St. Gall ↗︎

The Sitterwerk Art Library is dynamic in more ways than one. In addition to the library's unique cataloguing robot, the books themselves contain a multitude of notes, newspaper cutouts, and ephemera which open up new insights, histories, and lines of enquiry. These ephemera were left behind by the avid book collector, Daniel Rohner, as well as other individuals, who donated books to Sitterwerk.

The exhibition Orphan Papers highlighted how these things left behind are as much part of the Sitterwerk library as the books themselves. The ephemera were catalogued and curated, and displayed within the library in such a way that invited interaction. Library visitors could continue to access and read the books as usual, but the exhibition allowed them to do so on top of, and surrounded by, the personal notes and cutouts which were left behind. The exhibition was therefore an optimistic invitation for visitors to add their personal voices to continuing research, and to enter other people's universes in order to explore their own. The presence of the Sitterwerk's material archive lent poignancy to these voices which have now passed away. In addition, it represented a multitude of potential personal futures.

Random Access Memories vol.1, Newspapers cutouts and Documenta 6 were published during the exhibition by Boabooks. ↗︎
With the support from the Fonds cantonal d'art contemporain ↗︎ and many more at the Sitterwerk. ↗︎



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28 Boabooks
16.05.2019 – 29.05.2019
École supérieure d'arts et média de Caen/Cherbourg Une saison graphique ↗︎

When artists' books are exhibited, they often become venerated objects, which undermines their purpose. Izet Sheshivari manually cut circles through each page of a selection of 28 Boabooks and displayed each circle in the order of the pages on an 18m. long wall at the Caen School of Applied Art. This radical intervention in the bodies of these books was intended to playfully undermine any veneration of the books and also to reveal a construction or internal structure of the work that is not otherwise visible.



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The Liberated Page
21.10.2014 – 28.12.2014
Le Commun, Geneva

The recent evolution and democratisation of printing techniques has encouraged many artists to re-evaluate their position in relation to literature, to books, and to the page. Dedicated to the exploration of new practices within art book production, The Liberated Page considered the page for its simultaneously poetic, structural and physical elements.

The exhibition highlighted a wide range of interventions and approaches, and discussed in particular, how artists invent new books and why their invention opens up new possibilities for the page – as well as for communication and language.

The biennale highlighted the work of several contemporary artists concerned with the page, in conversation with such historic examples as books from artists Dieter Roth, Ed Ruscha, and Seth Siegelaub, bookworks from publishing houses Something Else Press and Ecart (including work by Daniel Spoerri, Robert Filliou, Emmett Williams, and Dick Higgins), an anthology by Guy Schraenen, the Mèla post card book from Maurizio Nannucci, as well as the complete Franklin Furnace archive.

During the period of the Russian avant-garde in the 1920s and also worldwide in the 1960s, artists explored the numerous possibilities which were available for the alternative dissemination of their works.

During the 1960s, Mail Art subsequently became very popular, presenting as it did an easy way for artists to utilise their private and personal sphere to form a ‘cultural strategy’ – using works of art as an alternative method of communication. It was in this climate that artists’ books really began to proliferate, and as documented ten years later by the seminal book artist, poet and critic Ulises Carrión, artists’ books could now potentially exist autonomously, and communicate with a new ‘artistic language’.
The title of the exhibition, The Liberated Page, reuses the title of an anthology which was dedicated to the review Typographica. This review was founded, conceived and edited by the celebrated editor and designer Herbert Spencer, and whilst the duration of its publication was short – a total of 32 issues were published between 1949 and 1967 – its influence has been profound, reaching far beyond its modest distribution and circulation. Spencer used different types of papers and typography to present an eclectic range of topics from Braille poetry to sex and typography. The review provided a critical alternative to the dominant conventions of the printing industry and tastes inherited from the 1920s. It made a strong contribution to the spread of ‘European’ concrete poetry in the United States, and published one of the first British articles on the subject, at the moment when concrete poetry was just becoming a worldwide phenomenon.

Spencer’s role as designer/editor, able to think both visually and verbally – merging images and words – presented a totally renewed relationship with the page. It is this sprit and potential for a renewed debate and critical conversation about our relationship with the page, and our communication with one another, which The Liberated Page aims to provoke and encourage.

A number of contemporary artists and publishers concerned with the renewal of the book format were invited to take part to share their perspectives.

These included Manuel Burgener, Raffaella Chiara, Norbert Costin, Elizabeth Lebon, Louise Guerra, Václav Pozárek, Hinrich Sachs, Claudia de La Torre and Ofer Wolberger.

The Liberated Page benefitted from the support of the Fonds municipal d’art contemporain de Genève ↗︎, Pro Helvetia, Fondation suisse pour la culture ↗︎, Loterie Romande and la Ville de Genève. ↗︎.


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La récente évolution et démocratisation des techniques d’impression a encouragé de nombreux artistes à reconsidérer leur position par rapport à la littérature, aux livres et à la page imprimée. Dédiée à l’exploration de nouvelles pratiques dans le domaine de l’édition de livres d’art, l’exposition, qui a eu lieu en 2014, a considéré la page imprimée pour ses éléments à la fois poétiques, structurels et physiques. L’exposition a mis en relief un large éventail d’interventions et d’approches et a trait plus particulièrement de la manière dont les artistes créent de nouveaux livres et pourquoi et comment leur inventivité ouvre de nouveaux horizons à la page imprimée, tant en ce qui concerne le langage, les concepts, et les formes en soulignant les spécificités des livres d’artistes.

La biennale a mis l’accent sur plusieurs artistes contemporains qui travaillent avec la typographie de la page imprimée en dialogue avec des livres d’artistes de générations précédentes tels que Dieter Roth, Ed Ruscha, Seth Siegelaub, ainsi que des bookworks des maisons d’édition Something Else Press et Ecart (avec des travaux de Daniel Spoerri, Robert Filliou, Emmett Williams et Dick Higgins), des anthologies de Guy Schraenen, le Mèla post card book de Maurizio Nannucci, ainsi que l’archive complète de l’association Franklin Furnace.

Dans la foulée des avant-gardes russes, plus précisément dans les années 1920, puis dans le monde entier dans les années 1960, les artistes ont exploré différentes possibilités pour diffuser leurs travaux. Dès 1960, le Mail art devint très populaire, offrant aux artistes un moyen de se servir de leur sphère privée pour former une «stratégie culturelle» utilisant leurs langague artistiques comme une méthode alternative de communication. C’est dans ce climat que le livre d’artiste a vraiment commencé à proliférer, comme l’a documenté Ulises Carrion, poète, critique et précurseur du livre d’artiste en révélant que le livre d’artiste pourrait exister de manière autonome en utilisant un nouveau langage artistique.

Le titre de l’exposition The Liberated Page reprend le titre d’une anthologie dédiée à Typographica. Cette revue a été fondée, conçue et éditée par l’éditeur et designer Herbert Spencer. Bien que sa publication fut de courte durée – 32 numéros ont été publiés entre 1949 et 1967, son influence a été profonde et sa portée bien plus grande que sa modeste diffusion. Herbert Spencer a utilisé différents types de papiers et des typographies sophistiquées pour présenter un choix éclectique de sujets allant de la poésie en braille jusqu’à la relation entre le sexe et typographie. La revue a été une alternative critique aux conventions et aux tendances de l’imprimerie héritées des années 1930. Elle a grandement contribué au rayonnement de la poésie concrète européenne aux États-Unis en publiant l’un des premiers articles d’importance sur ce sujet, alors que la poésie concrète n’était pas encore un phénomène mondial.
Herbert Spencer, capable de penser tant visuellement que verbalement, fusionnant paroles et images, a complètement renouvelé l’apparence de la page imprimée. C’est dans cet esprit que The Liberated Page, qui a pour but d’encourager et de provoquer une interaction critique avec notre relation à la page imprimée, et visé à renouveler le débat.

Des artistes contemporains concernés par le langage des formes de livres ont été invités à partager leurs points de vue. Il s’agit de Manuel Burgener, Raffaella Chiara, Norbert Costin, Elizabeth Lebon, Louise Guerra, Václav Pozárek et de Claudia de la Torre.

The Liberated Page a bénéficié du soutien des institutions suivantes: Fonds municipal d’art contemporain de Genève ↗︎, Pro Helvetia, Fondation suisse pour la culture ↗︎, la Loterie Romande et la Ville de Genève. ↗︎





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Blank Book Makers
2.06.2012 – 17.06.2012
Fonderie Kugler, Geneva

The exhibition Blank Book Makers and the catalogue aimed to address the latest developments in artists’ book history, and gave a dynamic overview of inspiring recent works. Included in the exhibition were many books dealing with topics such as emptiness, space, or the very substance of pages, as well as books which explore the book in itself or bookworks publications. With the sheer abundance of interesting publications, showing all facets and aspects of contemporary developments through images would have been extremely challenging.

We therefore chose to identify and showcase the current ideas and needs of the artist’s book medium. This approach greatly benefitted from the efforts carried out at the large annual artists’ book conventions, such as Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair and many more. The exhibition also owed a great deal to all the mediation activities carried out via independent information networks, which play a significant part in promoting artists and their books, and was in itself an expression of gratitude to all the hard-working people behind these exhibitions and platforms, as well as to specialized booksellers. This also extends to directors and curators of institutions, collectors, and publishers for the ways in which they made their works and knowledge available to us. The Blank Book Makers exhibition in Geneva and its supporting body of work could not have been carried out without their generous contributions.

AND Publishing, Vincent Barras, Olivier Bessard-Banquy, Boabooks, Boekie Woekie, Susanne Bürner, Coracle press, Simon Cutts, dasein, editions 75, edition fink, editions nord, Greatest Hits, Lynn Harris, Héros-Limite, éditions incertain sens, Innen zine, Louis Lüthi, Mark Pezinger Verlag, Nieves, Occasional Papers, OMMU, Jan Voss, Eric Watier, Eva Weinmayr, Westphalie Verlag, Zédélé.

Books by Vito Acconci, Pierre Garnier, Art & Langage, Robert Barry, Roland Barthes, Pierre Barthes, Samuel Beckett, Julien Berberat, Irma Blank, O.F. Bollnow, Ray Bradbury, Koen Brams & Krist Gruijthuijsen, Marcel Broodthaers, Stanley Brouwn, Susanne Bürner, Paul Bury, James Lee Byars, John Cage, Italo Calvino, Ulises Carrión, Mariana Castillo Deball, Les Coleman, Sackett Colin, Simon Cutts, Lieven De Boeck & John Murphy, Guy de Cointet, Pierre de Massot, herman de vries, Jean Delvaux, Dieter Roth, Victor David Dinnerstein, Peter Downsbrough, Marcel Duchamp, Fra Elbertus, Leif Eriksson, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Robert et Cie Filliou, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Jason Fulford, Heinz Gappmayr, Dora Garcia, William H. Gass, Nicolas Geiser, Michael Gibbs, Fabrice Gigy, Sébastien Goy, Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Sönke Hallman, Jérôme Hentsch, Katrin Herzner, Susan Hiller, Masanao Hirayama, Anthony Huberman, Tom Johnson, David Jourdan, Martin Kippenberger, Yves Klein, Richard Kostelanetz, Jaroslaw Kozlowski, Frédéric Laé, James Langdon, Yvan Le Bozec, Henri Lefebvre, Jürg Lehni & Alex Rich, Gordon Lish, Louis Lüthi, Anne Lydia, George Maciunas, Sara MacKillop, Stéphane Mallarmé, Piero Manzoni, Annette Messager, Helen Mirra & Lyn Hejinian, Jonathan Monk, Bruno Munari, Julien Nédélec, Bp Nichol & David Aylwood, Sun Noh, Brian O’Doherty, Paul van Dijk, Georges Perec, Michalis Pischler, Salvador Plascencia, Manuel Raeder, Sophie Ristelhueber, Niklaus Ruegg, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Rusha, Claude Rutault, Georg Rutishauser & Matthias Kuhn, Jonathan Safran Foer, Sarkis, Ferdinand Schmatz & Heimo Zobernig, Janis Schroeder, Idries Shah, Izet Sheshivari, Sterne Laurence, Peter Stoffel, Ramaya Tegegne, Nik Thoenen & Lorenzo le kou Meyr, Tim Lee & Markus Soo, Roland Topor, Endre Tót, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Richard Tuttle, Jiri Valoch, Bernard Villers, Jan Voss, Andy Warhol, Eric Watier, Lawrence Weiner, Eva Weinmayr, Karen Willey, Ian Wilson, Rahel Zoller.
We published the catalogue Blank Book Makers ↗︎ with Boabooks.↗︎

The exhibition Blank Book Makers benefitted from the support of the Loterie Romande and the Ville de Genève.




]]> https://izet.ch/exhibitions/blank-book-makers/ 2024-08-07 13:12:54 Exhibitions Boabooks are created in collaboration with artists and authors who are consistently taking a critical and experimental approach. We open up countless possibilities for all stages of the book format’s conception and production. Once created, each book takes on its own identity, referring the reader to countless disciplines, experiences, subjects and themes. Going beyond such postmodernist conceptions of the book format however, Boabooks exists as a distinctive diving board for critical thinking.

You can see our complete catalogue. ↗︎

Joëlle Isoz – Fictions sauvages


]]> https://izet.ch/books/ 2024-05-20 21:57:31 Main Tasks in the studio include managing archives and retouching files and batches of images or collections and more. We work daily in print, screen, analogue, and digital and we have expertise in art direction, design, photography and enjoys curating exhibitions, publishing, and selling art and books at Boabooks.

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