Vonu: The Search for Personal Freedom Limited Edition #1

Oscar Tuazon edition for May
VONU, The Search for Personal Freedom, Rayo. Edited by Jon Fisher and published by Loompanics Unlimited.

Reprinted and bound in green sheepskin soft cover each with a unique circular inlaid C-print
Edition of 50 + 10 A.P., signed and numbered

Oscar Tuazon has chosen the artist book format to pay tribute to an out-of-print cult 80s book, Vonu, a compilation of writings unfolding like a libertarian treaty on the attainment freedom, grounded in the modern North American socio-political landscape. Partly conceived like a practical manual, the publication also conveys the extremes by which its author Rayo, lived. While the initial contents have been faithfully scanned and reprinted, this new edition has earned a handmade leather binding, crafted by the artist himself, who has also delicately inserted a unique piece of landscape photography on each cover, following the design of the initial edition. Disappearing behind this act, Oscar Tuazon’s gesture is about recirculating an object as well as concepts and an attitude that have strongly informed his work.