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Opening November 7th, at Kunsthalle Wien. Starts at 7PM. What is the role of art publishing today? How have artists adapted modes of publishing as a tool for their practice? How has the notion of artists’ publishing activity changed, given the ever-increasing amount of fairs and an ever-evolving number of book-related collections in contemporary art museums? Publishing has developed a favorite site and medium for aesthetic and artistic experimentation. It has also become an alternative space for promoting unrestricted individual or collective discourse. The multi-part exhibition project\u00a0Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: 1989\u20132017\u00a0<\/i>explores the potentials of publishing \u2013 in the form of books, magazines, journals, artistic interventions, websites \u2013 as a particular medium and context both to circulate information, knowledge \u2013 and to produce art.<\/span><\/p>\n Instead of looking at the already historicized and analyzed period of the 1960s and 1970s, the exhibition will highlight how a recent generation of artists use publishing as a productive tool for their practice. The focus lies on the period from 1989 until 2017, taking 1989 as symbolic date to underline the shift from analogue to digital. On a political level, 1989 with the fall of the Berlin wall marks a significant date. On a social level, it is an important year as it indicates the invention of the World Wide Web.<\/span><\/p>\n THE BOOKSHOP AS MEDIUM<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n The bookshop curated by Gregorio Magnani and Motto Books presents a selection of artist\u2019s books published between the late 1980\u2019s and the present. Together these publications offer a privileged overview of the unexpected flourishing of the book as artistic and creative medium. At the same time the bookstore highlights the wide international network of artists and small independent publishers whose collaborations and shared interests are the motors for the artist\u2019s book renaissance.<\/span><\/p>\n More information here<\/a><\/p>\n
\nExhibition\u00a0<\/i>08.11.2017 – 28.01.2018<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n