BUREN Daniel (Boulogne-Billancourt 1938)
Kitakyushu, Korinsha press, 1998, 21,4 × 15,2 cm, Publisher’s leather binding with metal spiral binding, housed in a slipcase., pp. [118], typographic cover printed in red on a black background, textless artist’s book in directory format, with pages of varying sizes, featuring cut-outs, transparencies, and overlays, published on the occasion of Buren’s exhibition at the CCA, December 1–19, 1997. Part of the CCA Artists’ Book series by Nobuo Nakamura and Akiko Miyake. The directory-like format is used as a device for manipulating colour and space. Tabs, differently sized leaves, transparent surfaces and cut-out openings cause one page to remain visible through another; turning a leaf changes the composition rather than merely revealing a new illustration. Buren’s work is thus encountered through the book’s actual materials and the reader’s handling of them.
BUREN Daniel (Boulogne-Billancourt 1938)
Kitakyushu, Korinsha press, 1998, 21,4 × 15,2 cm, Publisher’s leather binding with metal spiral binding, housed in a slipcase., pp. [118], typographic cover printed in red on a black background, textless artist’s book in directory format, with pages of varying sizes, featuring cut-outs, transparencies, and overlays, published on the occasion of Buren’s exhibition at the CCA, December 1–19, 1997. Part of the CCA Artists’ Book series by Nobuo Nakamura and Akiko Miyake. The directory-like format is used as a device for manipulating colour and space. Tabs, differently sized leaves, transparent surfaces and cut-out openings cause one page to remain visible through another; turning a leaf changes the composition rather than merely revealing a new illustration. Buren’s work is thus encountered through the book’s actual materials and the reader’s handling of them.
