+KGP, New York

ACVic Centre d'Arts Contemporànies, Vic

Ajuntament de Barcelona. Direcció de Serveis Editorials, Barcelona

AKAL, Madrid

Al-Tiba9, Barcelona - Algeria

Alias Editorial, Ciudad de México

AMENGUAL&Co, Calvià-Mallorca

Arquitectura y Fantasía, Buenos Aires

ART INNOVA - LA CASA DELS CLÀSSICS, Barcelona

Arte Omega, Barcelona

ARTIKA, Barcelona

Arts Santa Mónica, Barcelona

Bartlebooth, Lugo

Blue Project Foundation, Barcelona

Bòlit. Centre d’Art Contemporani, Girona

Bonito Editorial, Bilbao

Book à porter, Pavia

Ca l'Isidret, Barcelona

Caja Negra, Buenos Aires

Cànem Galería, Castellón

CCCB, Barcelona

CENDEAC, Muricia

Centre d'Art de Tarragona, Tarragona

Centre d'Art La Panera, Lleida

Centre d’Art Tecla Sala, Hospitalet de Llobregat

Chema Peral, Vilanova i la Geltrú

Clara Sáez, Barcelona

Cuscusian*s, Girona

Dalpine, Madrid

De La Pulcra Ceniza, Barcelona

DEEP EDITIONS, Barcelona

Ediciones La Bahía, Santander

Ediciones Posibles, Barcelona

Edicions Poncianes, Barcelona

Editorial Concreta, Valencia

Editorial Flamboyant, Barcelona

Editorial RM, Barcelona

Editorial Tenov, Barcelona

El Naufraguito, Barcelona

Els diccionaris, Barcelona

Eulàlia Espasa, Barcelona

exitmail, Madrid

Fabra i Coats: Centre d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona

Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona

Fundació Joan Brossa, Barcelona

Fundació “La Caixa”, Barcelona  

Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona

Fundació Vila Casas, Barcelon

Fundación Foto Colectania, Barcelona

Hangar. Centre de producció i recerca d’arts audiovisuals, Barcelona

Holobionte Ediciones, Barcelona

José Antonio Soria, Terrassa

Juan Naranjo, Barcelona

La Capella, Barcelona

La Escocesa + Do the Print, Barcelona

La Frivé, Barcelona

La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona

Lídia Moreno Herraiz, Terrassa

Llibreria Ona, Barcelona

MACBA, Barcelona

Malpaso Ediciones, Barcelona

Metales Pesados, Santiago de Chile

Meteoro Editions, Amsterdam

Mireia Zantop, Barcelona

Moisès Gil, Alicante

Montse Noguera. Edicions Singulars, Barcelona

Museu Picasso, Barcelona

Museu del Disseny de Barcelona, Barcelona

No_Libros, Barcelona - São Paulo

NOOM Books, Barcelona

per(r)ucho, Valencia

Perdita METABUK. Sandra March, Barcelona

Poesía de Emergencia, Barcelona

Progetto SKIA, Aosta - Italia

Puente Editores, Barcelona

Punt d'estampa by Francesca Poza, Barcelona

Raíña Lupa, Barcelona

Roberto Equisoain, Zaragoza

Roser Sales Noguera, Barcelona

Rubén Barroso, Sevilla  

Temblores Publicaciones, Cuidad de México

Teor/ética, San José - Costa Rica

Teresa Gómez Martorell, Barcelona

Tinta Invisible, Barcelona

Tristán Barbarà, Barcelona

Unica Edicions, Vilanova i la Geltrú

United Minds, Valencia

ArtsLibris Seminar is a meeting space destined to discuss contemporary publishing and artists’ publications, understood in a broad sense and not just in editorial terms. In this light, it is a space for reflecting and sharing practices concerning the place occupied by artists’ publications in the configuration of sensitivity within the artistic production, the context in which they are inscribed, and also a space for thinking about their future directions.

Taking into consideration the profound transformations that have occurred in artistic attitudes during the last fifty years, it is necessary to ask ourselves: what could be an artist’s publication today?

If the cultural industry moves forward standardizing art forms, the issue we aim to address is how to work, from an artistic point of view, with dissenting art forms that defy hegemonic mandates of normativity. This practice would not be so much a denunciation as a way of imagining spaces, uplifting art forms and different ways of presentation which introduce a variation, however small it may be.

Between the crossover of different artistic practices, their formation processes, their economy of disposition, and the ways they materially organize the art forms, artists’ publications demand to be thought of within a broader multiplicity. Some forms such as videos, leaflets, plaquettes, and banners are also current forms of presentation of works of art. Artists are increasingly using publishing as an artistic practice. So, how to start other grammars for the ways artists make their publications? What tools remain valid today? What is the nature of the main transformations which are being produced in the context of publishing?

SERIES OF LECTURES

SESSION 1

July 24 10:00-11:00

Presentation chaired by Andrea Soto Calderón
Dialogue between María Virginia Jaua and Oriol Vilapuig

SESSION 2

July 24 11:15-12:15

Presentation chaired by Andrea Soto Calderón
Dialogue between Cristina Lucas and Itziar Okariz

SESSION 3

July 24 12:30-13:30
Dialogue between Emmanuel Alloa and Andrea Soto Calderón

13L Libros de artista (Barcelona) | Alias Editorial (Ciutat de Mèxic) | Apart Edicions (Barcelona) | Arquitectura y Fantasía (La Plata) | Artika (Barcelona) | Artphilein Editions (Lugano) | ArtsLibris (Barcelona) | Avant (Nova York) | Biel Books (Barcelona / Nova York) | Blueproject Foundation (Barcelona) | BOLO Paper (Milà) | Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite (Berlin) | Bonart (Girona / Barcelona) | Bonito Editorial (Bilbao) | Casa de Velázquez (Madrid) | CCCB (Barcelona) | CENDEAC (Múrcia) | Chucherías de Arte (Madrid) | Consonni (Bilbao) | Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana (València) | Continent (Basilea) | Cube Art Editions (Atenes) | Cuscusian*s (Girona) | Danilo Montanari Editore (Ravenna) | De La Pulcra Ceniza (Barcelona) | Deep Edicions (Barcelona) | Do the Print (Barcelona) | Doublebrain (Barcelona) | Dulkápan (Reykjavík) | Editora Urutau (São Paulo / Pontevedra) | Editorial Concreta (València) | Editorial Micromegas (Múrcia) | Editorial RM (Barcelona / Mèxic) | Editorial Tenov (Barcelona) | El Gato Azul Editorial (València) | El Naufraguito (Barcelona) | Enciclopèdia Art (Barcelona) | Escola d'Art La Industrial (Barcelona) | Escola d'Arts i Oficis Llotja (Barcelona) | Escola Massana (Barcelona) | FASE (L'Hospitalet) | Florence Loewy (París) | Fundació Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona) | Fundació Bancària La Caixa (Barcelona) | Fundació Miró (Barcelona) | Galerie &CO119 (Barcelona) | Gesa Lange (Hamburg) | If Publications (Barcelona) | Instantes Gráficos (Buenos Aires) | Janus Books (Barcelona) | José Antonio Soria (Terrassa) | Juan Naranjo Galería de Arte & Documentos (Barcelona) | Kültur Büro (Barcelona / Buenos Aires) | L'Arengario Studio Bibliografico (Gussago – Brescia) | L'Automàtica (Barcelona) | La Capella (Barcelona) | La Virtual Room (Barcelona) | La Panera (Lleida) | Lanipsebooks (Barcelona) | Librería Anticuaria Poema 20 (Buenos Aires) | Libri Finti Clandestini (Cusano – Milà) | Libros del Zorro Rojo (Barcelona) | Lídia Moreno (Terrassa) | Lindero Libros (Barcelona) | MACBA (Barcelona) | Louis-Charles Tiar (Madrid) | Marta Boan (Barcelona) | Mercè Soler (Barcelona) | Motto Books (Berlín) | Museu del Disseny (Barcelona) | Museu Picasso (Barcelona) | No-Libros (São Paulo / Barcelona) | Onomatopee Projects (Eindhoven) | per(r)ucho (València) | Poupée Rouge Publicaçoes Independentes (São Paulo) | Raíña Lupa (Barcelona)  | Riacho (Porto Alegre) | Ricardo Okaranza (Berlin) | Risotop Verlag (Leipzig) | Roberto Equisoain (Berlín) | Roca Umbert Fàbrica de les Arts (Granollers) | rotem of qiryat gat (Tel Aviv) | Sylvie Ringer (Hamburg) | TEOR/éTica (San José – Costa Rica) | Terminal Ediciones (Guayaquil) | Tinta Invisible Edicions (Barcelona) | Toni Amengual (Mallorca) | Tristan Barbarà (Barcelona) | Ximena Pérez Grobet (Barcelona)

Publishing Practices: Photobooks, Artistic Research Publications, Fanzines

This seminar sets out to analyse some of the specific forms of publishing which are common in our present time, focusing on three types of specific artistic practices — photography, artistic research and fanzines — which, in turn, generate their own equivalent types of publication: photobooks, the publications as an outcome of artistic research, and fanzines. Conversations will consider, among other matters, aspects such as the historical antecedents of these practices, their essential motivations, their “alternative” status in relation with true mainstream publishing into which they don’t entirely fit, their ability to infiltrate the conventional distribution channels and to appropriate or create their own ways of circulation, and their complex relationship with a publishing industry that is undergoing a process of transformation and, simultaneously, with the world of art.

The seminar is structured in three conversations:

17.00 - 17.15: Presentation

17.15 - 18.15: Twists and Turns of Photobooks. Laia Abril talks with Horacio Fernández

18.15 - 19.15: Artistic Research as Method, Books as a Result. Mariana Castillo Deball talks with Hiuwai Chu

19.15 - 19.30: Break

19.30 - 20.30: Publishing on the Margins: Fanzines. Andrea Galaxina talks with Clara-Iris

Tell me a book. Los libros de artista en el cine will take place on Saturday 27 April at the Auditori de la Fundació Tàpies, and will be dedicated to the documentary on the artist's book. Three medium-length films are part of the programme:

The Books of Ed Ruscha

Ed Ruscha (director), Mason Williams

1969

38 min

V.O. in English without subtitles

In this piece, which forms part of Ed Ruscha's short filmography, the Californian artist composes an ironic "documentary" about his artist's books in which the absence of a previous script and the supposed solemnity of the register are combined, as in his other films, in an amusing autoparody. The protagonist of the film is guitarist and composer Mason Williams, who, with a casual attitude that at times borders on irreverence, leafs through, rereads and comments on the iconic titles of Ruscha -Twenty-six Gasoline Stations, Some Los Angeles Apartments and Every Building in Sunset Strip, among others- while having a drink and enjoying the sunset.

Bookworks Revisited. Part 1: A Selection

Ulysses Carrion

1987

36' 33'' min

Video transferred to digital

Color, sound

V.O. in English with Spanish subtitles

Looking in front of the camera and holding the books in his hands, in this film Ulises Carrión comments, one by one, about ninety titles from his archive. His comments and descriptions act as an excellent introduction to the genre of the artist's book, in which Carrión explains the various ways in which artists have undertaken the creative reinvention of the book, while claiming their status as works of art in their own right.

Livres 1

Valérie Mréjen

Produced by Association Bob Calle du Livre d'Artiste, Paris

2019

15 min

Digital Video

Color, sound

V.O. in French with Spanish subtitles

On the occasion of the launch of the Bob Calle Prize for the Best European Artist's Book, instituted in 2017 by the Association Bob Calle pour le Livre d'Artiste (Paris), the French visual artist and writer Valérie Mréjen has made a documentary with interviews with artists who have played a relevant role in the genealogy of the conceptual artist's book, such as Annette Messager, Jean Michel Alberola, Christian Boltanski and Peter Downsbrough, as well as the two winners of the first edition of the Bob Cale Prize: the Swiss Stevan Sulzer and the Catalan Francesc Ruiz.

Cycle curator: Mela Dávila Freire. | Calendar: Saturday 27 April 2019, at 18.00 h. Duration: 1 h. Price: 4 € and free with entrance to the ArtsLibris fair. | It is not necessary to make a previous reservation. Activity in collaboration with ArtsLibris Barcelona - Madrid - Lisbon.

Dates: 

From 26 to 28 April

Whe:

Arts Santa Mònica

La Rambla, 7, 08002 Barcelona

Opening Times & Fees: 

Friday 26 from 13.00 to 21.00 (free entry)

Saturday 27 from 12.00 to 21.00 (entry: €4, reduced €2)

Sunday 28 from 12.00 to 18.00 (entry: €4, reduced €2)

Bookbinding workshop

With the students of the Arts del Llibre of the Escola Llotja, Barcelona

In this bookbinding workshop we introduce the participants to the creation of two books made with seen and unseen stitching of different materials.

Hours: Friday 26 April from 19:00 to 20:30 and Saturday 27 April from 17:00 to 18:30

Duration: 90 min.

Registration: €5

Up to 12 participants

Activity recommended for people aged 18 and over.

What forms does a book take?

With the group My Bookcase, Barcelona

Books are nomadic objects. They travel with us and they can be found in parks, metros, buses and cafés as often as on the bed or by the side of the bath or in your handbag. My Bookcase proposes a workshop that will explore the different forms that books can take, and collaborative shape is given to a place where books rest between moments or acts of reading. This act of “thinking with the hands” is reflected in the material nature of the book while we build the best structure to keep it in transit between readers.

Hours: Saturday 27 April from 17:00 to 18:30

Registration free

Up to 12 participants

Activity recommended for people aged 16 and over.

Animaladas

With Moreno&Soria, Terrassa

Starting from the book Mundo Animal by José Antonio Soria, the participants in the workshop create their own artist book to take home with them. The book is made on a leporello, a folded leaflet on which the participants print the heads of animals, created in stamps, that will later be used to draw various scenes, with which they convert and transform them into new characters or personalised animals.

Hours: Friday 26 April from 17:00 to 18:30 and Sunday 28 April from 12:30 to 14:00

Registration free

Up to 12 participants

Activity recommended for people aged 16 and over.

En algún lado y en ninguno is a collection of poems by the jazz musician and poet Sun Ra (Alabama 1914 - Birmingham 1993), selected and translated into Spanish by Mariana Castillo Deball, Tania Islas Weinstein and Alberto Ortega.

The adventure began in a library that loos like a spaceship, beside a monument in the shape of a burned sweet that celebrates the first atomic reaction generated by human beings with a plaque that shyly suggests that this powerful energy could be used for beneficial ends. Inside this lunar library, in the University of Chicago, is the special collections centre, where the papers of Alton Abraham – Sun Ra Collection, comprising the period 1822-2008, are kept. Alton Abraham (1927-1999), entrepreneur and hospital technician, was a friend and partner of Sun Ra, and throughout his life he collected manuscripts, ephemeral documentation, artefacts, photographs and video and audio recordings of the work of Sun Ra and his collaborators. In Abraham’s archive, which occupies 48 m of linear shelf space and consists of 146 boxes and a large file, there is, among other items, Sun Ra’s briefcase, containing his lawyer’s card, the insurance receipt for his car, a cabalistic amulet and a million dollar bill perforated in the centre.

There we also found Sun Ra’s typed poems, with handwritten corrections and in various versions. His poems generate a parallel geometry, a world that is precise and ambiguous at the same time. A sidereal enthusiasm made us think that the translation of his poems into our mother tongue could bring us close to his cosmos, and simultaneously allow us to share them with the Spanish-speaking firmament.

Sun Ra. En algún lado y en ninguno

Selection and translation by Mariana Castillo Deball, Tania Islas Weinstein and Alberto Ortega.

Barcelona and Berlin: ArtsLibris / Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite, 2019

80 pages

B/w, no illustrations

Offset printing, 15 x 23 cm

Print run: 1.000 ex.

Mariana Castillo Deball (Mexico City, 1975) moves between the sciences and the visual arts in an artistic practice that usually includes and reflects long processes of research. These processes often allow her to study the different ways in which objects can be read, from the historical context where they were created to their current reality. Castillo Deball’s installations, performances, sculptures and publishing projects arise from the recombination of different languages, and from collaborative work.

Seeking to start a dialogue with institutions and museums beyond contemporary art, Castillo Deball collaborates with ethnographic collections, libraries and historical archives. She often produces multiples, books or objects with different uses and formats, intended to explore how we might generate new territories. In this way, creating links among the fields of anthropology, philosophy and literature, Castillo Deball is inspired by a wide variety of sources, while participating in the exchange of knowledge understood as a transformational process for everyone involved.

In 2019 Dora García is the creator of our editions of cotton bags and gloves, with the support of the BlueProject Foundation, featuring the first sentences of a variety of classics of universal literature.

To mark its 10th anniversary, ArtsLibris has made five commissions to artists or groups who share a great interest in printed supports in their creative practice. The result of these commissions will be seen in the context of ArtsLibris Barcelona 2019.

Guerrilla Girls

If you keep women out, they get resentful

Since their foundation as a group, the Guerrilla Girls have used printed formats as a support for getting their messages across, combining an acid tone of irony with powerful feminist claims aimed at denouncing the patriarchate that dominates and sustains the art system. Their posters, postcards and stickers —which are constantly republished—, classic merchandising items such as porcelain cups, T-shirts, pen cases etc., and public actions, comprise the communication strategies by which this group has become so well known. The postcard that ArtsLibris republishes on the occasion of its 10th anniversary is one of the group’s iconic pieces. On it, the sentence “If you keep women out, they get resentful", by the exponent of the philosophy of calm and peace Confucius, appears illustrated with the face of a gorilla in an attack of rage.

The Guerrilla Girls were founded in New York in 1985. Their members are female artists whose identity remains anonymous so that the interest that the group arouses focuses on their protest activities, and not on the work or records of its members. The goal of the group is to denounce discrimination based in gender and race in the world of contemporary art. Their methods are associated with "guerrilla tactics": putting up posters, protest actions, distribution of printed material, etc. in order to keep their identity secret, in their public appearances the Guerrilla Girls always wear gorilla masks, the animal being their identity symbol.

Muntadas

Red

On 1 October 2017, the People’s Republic of China commemorated its 68^th anniversary with various celebrations. At the time, Antoni Muntadas (Barcelona, 1942) was finishing his project Asian Protocols (Similitudes, diferencias y conflictos 2011-2018), that had linked him to China. So, during that 1 October, he set out to identify and gather images and graphic items in which red, the Chinese "national" colour, was predominant.

The project Red, which arose from that collection, materialises the context of ArtsLibris with the publication of a collection of postcards that bring together a selection of the images that Muntadas made on that 1 October, images which set a contrast between the spectacular and banal aspects of capitalism and the colour red, the element that identifies communism par excellence.

 Antoni Muntadas’ work covers a large number of disciplines and formats, among which printed publications of all kinds (books, posters, postcards, advertising billboards, stickers, etc.) have always held an outstanding place as an essential part found in many of his projects. In Muntadas’ works the media, and the power relations that these media unleash or reflect, are very often his object of analysis, study, criticises and source of materials, which is another of the constants throughout his career, in the same way as a markedly international perspective that reflects his untiring activity worldwide.

Àlex Gifreu and Cecilia Martín

Books never die

 “It is a striking truth. An image / manifesto committed to the power of the book to transmit ideas, concepts or experiences that will last in time. A photograph of a desk in an Oslo office together with the sentence Books never die that follows the postulates of cut-out typography used by Raoul Hausmann, the situationists, the anonymous postal messages sent to demand something or some pamphlets from May 68 make up the back of the manifesto.

Books never die celebrates the durability of the book, its permanence, its other uses and, precisely for that reason, its physicality. A book is more than words printed on paper; it is the material form of an idea, of a thought that can be passed from hand to hand, from year to year, from place to pace. The book as an expression of resistance.”

Àlex Gifreu and Cecilia Martín 

Àlex Gifreu is not a typical designer. His professional practice knows no limits. Before founding his present studio, Bureau, he was a cofounder of the graphic studio Bis. In 2000 he created the publishing label Cru, which has now issued 52 artist’s publications. Gifreu is a key figure in defining the purpose of graphic design applied to art as a medium to "order other people’s ideas on paper". For him, the book is a extension of his work.

Cecilia Martín is a researcher and brand and communication strategist for art and culture. She is dedicated to the strategy of design, assisting museums and artistic institutions to develop their own language that helps to connect. She has done strategic projects for museums and cultural institutions, as well as carrying out research for the development of new publics. She is publisher in chief of Art Insights, collaborator of A*Desk and professor of Art and Communication of the Master of Current Art at the IL3 of the University of Barcelona.

Lara Baladi

ABC de la revolució

ABC de la revolució is the most recent of a large number of projects (actions in the media, works and publications) that have originated since 2011 in Vox Populi, an open code archive that gathers photographs, press articles, political satire, eye-witness testimony and videos on the Egyptian revolution of 2011 and other social protest movements worldwide. The design of this alphabet is inspired in the Egyptian and Russian school books of the 1950s, from which children learned to recognise the alphabet, with each letter being associated with an image. This structure becomes a complex visual essay that acts as a comment on the revolution of 2011 in Egypt, but expands to other social uprisings, reinterpreting the apparently "playful" nature of state teaching strategies while proposing the need to observe revolutionary processes with a critical perspective.

Lara Baladi, of Egyptian and Lebanese origin, defines herself as a multidisciplinary artist, archivist and educator, and lives in Egypt and Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she is a professor in the MIT science, art and technology programme. In her artistic practice, which started in photography, Baladi questions the authenticity and the authority of memory and time. Through processes of investigation in archives, sociopolitical narratives, mythologies and personal histories, her work covers analogue and digital photography, collage, video, multimedia installations, architectural, sculpture, tapestry and even perfume. In 2006, Baladi founded the Fenenin el Rehal artists residence (in Arabic, "nomad artists") in Egypt’s White Desert. During the revolts in 2011 in Egypt she set up two communication initiatives, Radio Tahrir and Tahrir Cinema. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Townhouse Gallery, in Cairo, and of the Arab Image Foundation (AIF) in Lebanon.

Friday, 26 April

16:00 – 17:00 

NO PIC, Andrés Galeano

The book NO PIC (self-published, 2018) by Andrés Galeano is a collection of digital images found on the Internet, and used to show that “the image is lacking”. These images, in a way, deny the image. They are “no-photos” that appear when a particular product is not available or a user doesn’t want to display a profile picture. They are, in fact, paradoxical images.

17:00 – 18:00

Seduction Artifacts: Libraries acquire jewels so that you can wear them, Javier Pérez Iglesias

A performance, with all the named documents putting in an appearance, in which the talk is about the library’s purchasing policy as a space for seduction. Starting from the experience in the Library of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University in Madrid, a model is presented of a participative library open to bastard, anomalous, unclassifiable, capricious publications. A world of artist books, photobooks, object books and non-books that speak, explain and are important to us.

18:00 – 19:00

Self-publishing as a form of resistance. Toni Amengual in conversation with Horacio Fernández

The tasks of editing, publishing and distributing a book are part of the creative process and can therefore be addressed as depending on the role of authorship. A certain knowledge and involvement required by desktop publishing are, according to Toni Amengual, necessary to understand how the world of photobooks works from within. In this talk, Amengual and Horacio Fernández will discuss these processes, considering whether the true “photobook revolution” may not have been the “revolution of self-publishing”.

19:00 – 20:00

Prix Bob Calle 2019 du Livre d’Artiste, conversation with Laurence Dumaine-Calle

Bob Calle, founder and first director of Carré d'Art at Nîmes Jean Bousquet (1988-1993), was passionate about artist's books. In homage to his interest, the Bob Calle Association for the Artist's Book (Paris) intends, by awarding an annual prize, to contribute to the recognition of this artistic format. Laurence Dumaine-Calle, director of the Association and the main promoter of the award, will discuss the first two editions, delivered to 2017 (when one of the two winners was Francesc Ruiz) and 2019.

Saturday, 27 April

12:15 – 13:00

Red, Muntadas

On 1 October 2017 there were commemorations of the 68^th anniversary of the creation of the People’s Republic of China. During that day Muntadas, then in China, busied himself identifying and photographing images and graphic elements in which the colour red, the Chinese “national” colour, was predominant. In this conversation, the artist will talk with Mela Dávila about the various materialisations of the Red project, which arises from that photographic collection.

13:00 – 14:00

Post-Print: Why Are We Here?                                   
Together with brand-new-life.org, avant.org, dpr-barcelona.com and some other friends, Continent, an experimental publication and on-line magazine group, has decided to accept the invitation to participate in ArtsLibris preparing a “stand as debate”, where throughout the days of the fair questions will be asked such as “What does it mean to be on-line at a publications fair?” “What could it mean to be post-print?” “How to define the desires, projections and concepts that this name involves?”

16:00 - 17:00

Undercover - Motto Books, with Alexis Zavialoff

Alexis Zavialoff, founder of the bookstore, distribution and publishing company Motto Books, will talk about non-conventional publishing models and their contexts, showing examples of bootleg editions and other difficult editorial experiments. Addressing the topic through a series of anecdotes, this presentation aims to take a look at the work of those artists who push the limits of the publication.

17:00 – 18:00

Glances, Alicja Kwade

Blueproject Foundation and author Pol Capdevila present Glances by Alicja Kwade, a catalogue of the exhibition conceived by “Il Salotto” of the Blueproject Foundation. This book reveals the artist’s interest in physical and perceptive experiences and her way of inhabiting space and time, with three works: Clout-Count, a large-scale sound structure; Between Glances, sculptures that toy with the reflection and concept of double; and In-Between, pieces that capture experiences of time.

18:00 – 19:00

Quo vadis, artist’s book fairs?, Bia Bittencourt and Ginés Martínez

Bia Bittencourt is the founder of Feira Plana - Festival International de Publicações of São Paulo, which started in 2011. Ginés Martínez set up Ediciones Inclasificables, which has been held in the Casa de las Conchas public library in Salamanca since 2012. To mark the tenth anniversary of ArtsLibris we are sharing a conversation with them both to talk about what artist books fairs are and what they would like them to be, in a context of change and transformation as fast as the present day.

19:00 – 20:00

Presentation of the Art Byblio 2019 Awards

For the third year La Llotja Art School, in collaboration with ArtsLibris, has convened the Art Byblio Award, to which all students of art on a national level can apply. With this award, La Llotja aims to promote the production of artist's books in the context of art schools. This conversation will launch the winning projects in 2019, which will become part of the artist’s book collection of La Llotja.

Sunday, 28 April

12:15 – 13:00

Dieter Roth and the Icelandic tradition, Silja Pálmarsdóttir and Dulkápan

In 1957 the German artist Dieter Roth married Sigríður Björnsdóttir and moved to Reykjavik with her. In Iceland, far from the centres of European modernity, Roth published a series of artist books and, with the Icelandic poet Einar Bragi, founded the publisher forlag ed. Since then, Iceland has kept up a rich tradició in the field of the artist book, almost unknown to us. Silja Pálmarsdóttir talks with the publisher Dulkápan about this tradition.

13:00 – 14:00

Eloi Gimeno, in memoriam

Now that Eloi Gimeno, who was passionate about books, typography and photography, is no longer with us, we, his friends, wish to keep his memory alive, and have undertaken to order and preserve his work and his memory. This is the first of the events addressed to that aim that we will organise during 2019: a assembly around Eloi Gimeno, a plural act in which the work groups will be presented that are beginning to gather information and documentation about his legacy.

3 en blanc (Barcelona) | 13L, edicions (Barcelona) | Alias (Mexico) | Antonio Freiles_Spazio libro d'Artista (Messina)  | Apart Edicions (Barcelona) | Art Deal project (Barcelona) | Arte-blogarte
 (Buenos Aires) | Artika (Barcelona) | Avarie (Paris) | Bernard Gabriel Lafabrie / Imprimerie d´Alsace-Lozère (Paris) | Bizco Books (Valencia) | Blueproject Foundation (Barcelona) | Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite (Berlin) | CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (Móstoles) | Ca l'Isidret Edicions (Barcelona) | Cànem Galeria (Castellón de la Plana) | Carmen Hurtado (Barcelona) | Carmen Segovia (Barcelona) | Carrete (Barcelona) | Casa das Peritas (Fisterra) | Casa de Velázquez (Madrid) | CCCB (Barcelona) | CENDEAC (Murcia) | Centre d'art la Panera (Lleida)  | Chiquita Ediciones (Barcelona) | Consonni (Bilbao) |  Corraini Edizioni (Mantova) | Cuscusian*s (Girona) | Danilo Montanari Editore (Ravenna) | DARDO (Santiago de Compostela) | Deep Edicions (Barcelona) |  De La Pulcra Ceniza (Barcelona) | DoubleBrain (Barcelona) | Ediciones Anómalas (Barcelona) | Ediciones Originales (Barcelona) | Edicions 1010 (Barcelona) | Editorial Concreta (Valencia)  | Editorial EXIT (Madrid) | Editorial Gustavo Gili (Barcelona) | Editorial RM (Barcelona, Mexico) | edRa, escola d'art i disseny de Rubí (Rubí) | El Naufraguito (Barcelona) | Els diccionaris (Barcelona) | Enciclopèdia Art (Barcelona) | Escola d'Art la Industrial (Barcelona) | Escola Massana (Barcelona) |  Escola Superior de Disseny i Art Llotja (Barcelona) | Fundació Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona) | Fundació Foto Colectania (Barcelona) | Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona) | Fundació Suñol (Barcelona) | Fundació Tharrats (Pineda de Mar) | Instantes Gráficos (Buenos Aires) | Galeria Sicart – Sic\Art Edicions (Vilafranca del Penedès) | Gallery / Bookstore Galerie&CO119 (Paris) | Lalata (Albacete) | L'Arengario Studio Bibliografico (Gussago) | Librería el Astillero (Cantabria) | Libros del Zorro Rojo (Barcelona) | MACBA (Barcelona) | Maga Books (Brooklyn) | Mercè Soler (Barcelona) | Minimae (Madrid) | Moreno&Soria (Terrassa) | Münster Studio (Barcelona) | MUSAC (León) | Museu Molí Paperer de Capellades (Capellades) | Museu del Disseny (Barcelona) | Museu Picasso (Barcelona) | Natasha Christia (Barcelona) | noPRESENT editorial (Sevilla) | Onomatopee (Eindhoven) | Oslo Graphic Barceloneta (Barcelona) | Photosai (Madrid) | Poursuite (Arles) | Raffaele Filannino (Cuneo) | Roca Umbert Fàbrica de les Arts (Granollers) | RocioSantaCruz (Barcelona) | Rubén Barroso Álvarez (Sevilla) | Sant Andreu Contemporani (Barcelona) | Studio Montespecchio (Modena) | Taller de gravat Manera Negra (Barcelona) | Taschen (Cologne) | Tinta Invisible edicions (Barcelona) | Tristan Barbarà editions (Barcelona) | Xilofera (Barcelona) | Ximena Perez Grobet | Artists ´ Books for artists (Barcelona) | YAXS (Guatemala) | Zentrum für Künstlerpublikationen / Centre for Artists' Publications – Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst (Bremen)

ArtsLibris 2018 provides a dynamic and flexible space for debate, discussion, and exchange between authors, publishers and the general public. It holds a continuous program over the three days of the fair, with presentations of projects, dialogues and talks by artists and publishers, chaired by Glòria Picazo.

Saturday, April 21st

6 pm

Manuel Olveira, director of MUSAC (León), presents The Book of Letters, by José Luis Castillejo (Seville–Houston), a facsimile edition brought out on occasion of the exhibition TLALAATALA. José Luis Castillejo y la escritura moderna, at the MUSAC.

7 pm

Manuel Segade, director of CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (Móstoles), presents the centre’s editorial line and its most recent publications: No sabíamos lo que hacíamos. Lecturas para una educación situada; Allan Kaprow. Comfort Zones; Miguel Trillo. Doble exposición; Coreografiar exposiciones; Cuerpo político negro and Julia Spínola. Lubricán.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4ysa0feEhg&feature=youtu.be

8 pm

Artist Ana Garcia-Pineda (Barcelona) presents an extended reprint of her book Más Máquinas y Maquinaciones in conversation with Amanda Cuesta (Barcelona), freelance art critic, curator and publisher.

Sunday, April 22nd

5 pm

Agustí Alcoberro (Pals) and Ramon Sicart (Llorenç del Penedès) talk art and politics for the presentation of their book 3 Octubre – 155 reaccions per a una República, published by Sic\Art Edicions.

6 pm

Consonni presents El arte de la mediación, by researcher and curator Oriol Fontdevila (Barcelona), who is in conversation with Javier Peñafiel (Zaragoza).

7 pm

Re-imaginando y re-activando el libro: Natasha Christia (Barcelona), freelance curator, in conversation with David Solo (American photography and photo book collector) and Annakarin Quinto (French photographer and director of leboudoir.02, an experimental projects platform revolving around books and their intersection with photography, experience in real time and the human condition).

8 pm

Photographer Eugeni Gay (Barcelona) presents his new book Desde la isla cuántica (Ediciones Anómalas), in conversation with publisher Montse Puig.

Monday, April 23rd

12.30 pm 

Presentation of the Centenari Tharrats activities in celebration of the centennial of Joan Josep Tharrats’ birth, organized by the Fundación Tharrats d’Art Gràfic and Ajuntament de Pineda de Mar, with Xavier Amor (mayor of Pineda de Mar), M. Àngels Torras (director of SS. TT. Barcelona, Departament de Cultura of the Generalitat de Catalunya), Joan Tharrats (Joan Josep Tharrats’ son), Arnau Puig (philosopher and art critic), Lluís Ivern (curator and coordinator) and Ricard Mas (curator of the main exhibition).

1 pm

Awarding of the Art Byblio Prize of the Llotja Escola Superior de Disseny i Art.

4 pm 

Alfredo Mateos Paramio, editor of Photosai, presents the art publication Semimaru, a special interpretation by Darío Álvarez (Valladolid) of the eponymous piece of Noh theatre by Zeami Motokiyo, as well as an original libretto in Japanese, translated into Spanish and showing drawings and stage designs by the artist. With the presence of Menene Gras, director of Culture and Exhibitions at Casa Asia.

4.30 pm

Renato Della Poeta and Cristina López Morcuende present the exhibition catalogue of Ernesto Neto (Rio de Janeiro) for the Blueproject Foundation, Um dia todos fomos peixes, in conversation with Laura Olea (Barcelona).

5 pm

Curator Horacio Fernández (Madrid) presents a selection of Editorial RM’s most recent titles on the photo book: Fenómeno Fotolibro, New York en fotolibro, Miserachs and Fotos & Libros. España 1905-1977.

6 pm

Presentation of the latest issue of the Concreta review (Concreta 11) by Pep Benlloch (Valencia), with José Díaz Cuyás (Valencia), guest editor of Concreta 10.

7 pm

Wilfredo Prieto (Sancti Spíritus, Cuba) presents Loophole, fourth title of the AL Series, prefaced by Glòria Picazo. Announcement of the name of the artist chosen to produce the series’ fifth title.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=659XOQAAUqQ&feature=youtu.be

8 pm

Artist Gonzalo Elvira (Argentina/Barcelona) presents his project 12 canciones concretas, published on vinyl for the CRU collection, with text by José Luis Corazón Ardura, design by Alex Gifreu and music by Grösso (Argentina/Barcelona), who accompanies him in the presentation and does a demonstration.

Over the three days that the fair lasts, there are a range of workshops for the general public that require no prior knowledge. 

Bookbinding workshop 

Given by students of Book Art from the Escola Llotja of Barcelona.

In this workshop participants are familiarised with French link stitching through the creation of two small books with covers made of different materials.

La biblioteca sense llei (“The lawless library”)

Activity by artist Antònia del Río

Activity aimed at families in which books provide the material with which to explore the concept of the library through different actions. We look beyond their actual contents and discover the possibilities books afford as objects for building and play. Activity recommended for children aged 3 and up.

This activity is part of the Art en Obert de Experimetem amb l'ART project. Espai d'educació artística i creació contemporània, 2014.

Diccionario Exquisito 

Workshop given by Marta Salarich Bardia

Workshop exploring the classic form of dictionary through a technique called the ‘exquisite cadaver’, with the aim of collectively transforming it to create a new thematic dictionary – a book where everyone can express their ideas on the concept put forward for the occasion: festivity. This workshop is for anyone who is sensitive to words and interested in paper and the book as a medium for expression.

Collage workshop

By Carmen Hurtado Pérez

Brief introduction to the history of collage followed by the workshop in which three collages are made using different techniques.

Clínica de libros de artista (“Clinic for artists’ books”)

With Carla Rey, artist, publisher and curator specialising in artists’ books.

The artist’s book is innovation and experimentation: the choice of paper, the typography, the presentation, design, binding, colophon, materials and format… They all combine to offer an ample array of possibilities. The workshop provides a space for exchanging ideas, presenting samples of books and discussing the best ways of translating ideas and concepts into an artist’s book. In the manner of a clinic, open debate gives participants the necessary information to design their own publications and future projects.

Demonstration of screen printing

The ephemeral image in screen printing using unconventional inks

By Oslo Graphic Barceloneta

In this workshop we look at an unconventional way of printing, which makes use of wallpaper paste, which is colourless. After printing, the image becomes visible when it is covered with various types of pigments. Once the printed area is dry, any direct alteration makes the pigment fall away from the paper and, depending on the kind of paper used, leaves one trace or another. The aim of the workshop is to reflect on the durability of the reproduced image. The public takes part and are allowed to take home the piece of paper that has been printed on as a souvenir.

Storytelling and activities

With Sabrina Kraus, author of the book Jane Goodall – An Inspiring Story

Through the true story of Dr. Jane Goodall, primatologist and messenger of peace, the writer looks at the themes of trust, self-awareness and professions. Under the motto “Dream”, participants can draw, colour in and let their creativity run free. Activity recommended for girls and boys aged 6 to 10.

Workshop Animaladas 

By Moreno&Soria

Drawing inspiration from “Mundo Animal”, a book by José Antonio Soria, participants of this workshop create their own artist’s book to take home. In the form of a Leporello, or folded leaflet, they are able to print animal heads from stamps and create different scenes by converting them into new characters or personalised animals.

OPLÁ

Workshop on pop-ups given by DoubleBrain (Roberta Bridda and Jani Lunablau)

Practical introduction to the techniques used to create moving 3D books and pop-up cards.

Improbable Libraries

Curated by Glòria Picazo

Artists: Ignasi Aballí / ALIAS / Clara Boj/Diego Díaz / Fernando Bryce / Iñaki Bonillas / Antònia del Rio / Enric Farres-Duran / Dora Garcia / Javier Peñafiel / Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa / Francesc Ruiz / Oriol Vilanova

Arts Santa Mònica and ArtsLibris, in collaboration with La Casa Encendida, are pleased to present the exhibition Improbable Libraries, curated by Gloria Picazo. The basic premise of this show is the role of the library as a place that has been and remains a repository of the knowledge gathered and stored by human beings through the centuries.

We see the library as the story of a chimera, an illusion, a pipe dream, for if we view it as a container capable of holding the whole memory of the world, it will always end up being an "unattainable utopia". Yet there are many possible variations on that idea of the total library, and we can find them in libraries which, according to the rules and conventions long held sacred by library science professionals, would be considered personal, diverse, subjective, anarchical and uncommon.

Improbable Libraries is a single project that combines the idea of the "infinite library"—insatiable, ever-changing and always open to knowledge of every kind—with the contributions of contemporary artists who, from the late 1960s to the present day, have revised the notion of libraries, archives and books as inexhaustible sources of knowledge. The artists included in this project were chosen based on their profound interest in books and artist's editions, a creative format which, despite its apparent marginality, figures prominently in their aesthetic discourses.

If we consider the library as the space where all knowledge is concentrated, as the quintessential hub of culture and democracy since public libraries first began to appear in the mid-19th century, then we must inevitably explore this theme from a variety of different angles: the importance of the library as a physical, architectural space, the singularity of its bibliographic collections, but also the possibility of seeing it as a mental space, as envisioned by Jorge Luis Borges, a space where knowledge overflows and we are overwhelmed by doubts when confronted by the idea of that "infinite library", as old as time itself. Legendary libraries like that of Alexandria, private, subjective libraries like Michel de Montaigne's, utopian libraries like the 18th-century architectural projects of Étienne-Louis Boullée, and even the acceptance and questioning of the "cloud", that massive archive which gathers the mind-boggling amount of data generated by today's society, comprise the thought-provoking landscape that underpins this exhibition.

The selected artists present their complete corpus of artist's editions in this show, and each has been assigned a different exhibition space depending on how they want spectators to read and observe their editions. The project features a selection of "personal libraries" containing artist's editions, classic books, drawings and personal belongings—something similar to what we might find in our own libraries.

In middle of the exhibition itinerary, visitors find our own particular "restricted reading room", the place where rare, valuable or forbidden books were once kept, visited only by bibliophiles. The "reading room" of Improbable Libraries contains publications by artists whose inventions gave new meaning to the concept of special editions in the 1960s and 70s, a genuine "bibliophile treasure trove".

Besides the exhibition at Arts Santa Mònica, Improbable Libraries has two outside interventions:

- At the Ateneu Barcelonès (C/ de la Canuda, 6) by Enric Farrés.
- At ELISAVA Escola Universitària de Disseny (Rambles, 30-32) by Francesc Ruiz. 

http://artssantamonica.gencat.cat/en/detall/Biblioteques-insolites-00004

The AL Series, a publishing project by ArtsLibris, works in collaboration with the Fudanció Banc Sabadell and honours its annual commitment of releasing a limited edition of an artist’s book. This year’s publication is by Wilfredo Prieto (Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, 1978), entitled Loophole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=659XOQAAUqQ&feature=youtu.be

ArtsLibris has two projects of limited editions: the AL Series, a collection of artists' books produced with the support of Fundació Banc Sabadell, and the limited edition of tote bags and gloves, sponsored this year by Blueproject Foundation and designed by Ignasi Aballí.

The V International Symposium on Artists’ Books addresses the subject of collecting. Glòria Picazo chairs a discussion with guest speakers João Fernandes, Deputy Director of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía; Anne Thurmann-Jajes (Centre for Artists' Publications – Weserburg-Museum für moderne Kunst), Mela Dávila (freelance curator) and Sergio Rubira (Assistant Director of Collection and Exhibitions at the IVAM).

This new edition of the international symposium ArtsLibris puts forward a discussion on the collection of artists’ books, understood in the broadest sense. It is clear that in the last two decades artists’ publications have gained considerable ground. No longer the marginal or complementary materials of a purely documentary nature they used to be, internal museum departments, like ‘Collection’ and ‘Library and Documentation Centre’, now squabble over who gets to custody them. And this is due, without doubt, to their well-deserved recognition following the redefinition of artistic discourses over recent decades. Further proof of this is that they are now a common feature in exhibitions, and increasingly even the main feature, and thereby contributing to a new outline of artistic, social and / or political contexts.

Saturday, April 21st

4.30 pm

The Universe (which others call the Library). 

Private documentary collections in Europe

Mela Dávila

Freelance curator

Just as museums and institutional libraries have increasingly recognised the value of the document in recent years, both in the context of their own patrimony and in relation to art collections, so too have some (a few) private collections made the document – the book or any other documentary format – the centre and the origin of their raison d'être. Mela Dávila looks at two of Europe’s most prominent examples: the Lafuente Archive, in Santander, and the Vanguardia Archive, built up by the Berlin-based Italian collector Egidio Marzona.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y8hknhod_E&feature=youtu.be

Sunday, April 22nd

12.00 pm*

The Act of Collecting. 

Artists’ Books in the Centre for Artists’ Publications

Dr. Anne Thurmann-Jajes

Director of the Centre for Artists’ Publications at the Weserburg Museum

Dr. Anne Thurmann-Jajes’s presentation gives an overview of the mission and work of the Centre for Artists’ Publications with regards to artists’ books. The observations revolve around the conceptual artist’s book and its characteristics, beginning with a few words about the Centre for Artists’ Publications—its history and its present activities. The archival and collection inventories characterise the Centre for Artists’ Publications and provide the foundation for its work. They represent the material basis for the presentation of the collections and for exhibitions, as well as for both current and future research projects. As such, they serve as a point of reference for the research conducted by the Centre and for external research. The inventories are distinguished by their unique research infrastructure available to scholars throughout the world. Collecting, safeguarding and maintaining are the primary tasks associated with collection supervision, serving to protect and sustain the archival and collection inventories and also to augment them in coherence with related research. One of the most recent exhibition and research project is Artists’ Books for Everything.

1.30 pm

Artists’ books and their circumstances

João Fernandes

Deputy Director of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

After Mallarmé, artists redefined the concept of the book and its possibilities. Artists’ books have been one of the freest mediums of expression in terms of the creation and circulation of an artwork. From self-publication and artist-led distribution circuits to the current situation where artists’ books depend more and more on the dictates of markets and institutions, we reflect on the state of affairs of artists’ publications today.

4.30 pm

Rooms of a library-museum, display-bookcase

Sergio Rubira

Assistant Director of Collection and Exhibitions at the IVAM

What happens to books when they enter a museum? When do they turn into something more than just books? What happens if they end up locked in a display cabinet? Are they artworks or certifying documents? Do they complement or complete discourse? Drawing from his experience at the IVAM, Sergio Rubira discusses how books shape the formation of a collection.

* Simultaneous translation service in Catalan is offered.

Collaborate

Ajuntament de Barcelona

Fundació Banc Sabadell

Institut Ramon Llull

ARCOmadrid 

AC/E

Media partner

La Vanguardia 

Collaborator companies and organizations

Blueproject Foundation

illy

Casa de Velázquez

Centre d´art la Panera 

CCCB

Centro José Guerrero

Escola Llotja

Fundació Antoni Tàpies

Fundació Foto Colectania 

Fundació Joan Miró

MACBA

Museu del Disseny de Barcelona

Museu Picasso

Casa Asia 

I am Nuria 

Hotel Indigo Barcelona

chic&basic

Casanovas espai gastronomic & catering

RAIMA 

TR3SC

Collaborator media

Fundació Tharrats

ARTEINFORMADO

bonart

Carrete

Concreta

DARDO

EXIT

GRAF

latamuda

13LEdicions (Barcelona) | A3Colectivo (Mataró) | AliciaCarrera** (Barcelona) | ApartEdicions (Barcelona) | ArchelesEdiciones de Arte (Madrid) | Artika (Barcelona) | ArtistsBooks For Artists / Ximena Perez Grobet (Barcelona) | ArtsComing (Barcelona) | Bernard-GabrielLafabrie (Paris) | BlueprojectFoundation (Barcelona) | CarmenAlonso Libros (Santander) | Casade Velázquez (Madrid) | CCCB (Barcelona) | Centrede la Photographie de Genève (Ginebra) | Centred'art la Panera (Lleida) | CentroJosé Guerrero (Granada) | Cercled'Art (Paris) | Chin– Chin Records** (Barcelona) | Chucheríasde Arte (Mèrida) | Círculodel Arte (Barcelona) | Consonni (Bilbao) | Cuscusian*sEdiciones (Girona) | DeepEdicions (Barcelona) | Dela Pulcra Ceniza (Barcelona) | Dothe print** (Barcelona) | EdicionesAnómalas (Barcelona) | EdicionesL'Horta Gràfica (València) | EdicionesOriginales (Barcelona) | Edicions1010 (Barcelona) | Éditions Xavier Barral (París) | EditorialConcreta (Castelló) | EditorialGustavo Gili (Barcelona) | EditorialRM (Mèxic DF / Barcelona) | ElNaufraguito (Barcelona) | EnciclopèdiaCatalana (Barcelona) | Escolad'Art i Disseny Tarragona (Tarragona) | Escolad'Art La Industrial (Barcelona) | Escolad'Art Pau Gargallo (Barcelona) | EscolaMassana (Barcelona) | EscolaSuperior de Disseny i Art Llotja (Barcelona) |  FundacióAntoni Tàpies (Barcelona) | GaleriaBalaguer (Barcelona) | GaleriaCànem (Castelló) | GaleriaSicart / Sic\Art Edicions (Vilafrancadel Penedès) | GalerieLibrairie &co119 (Paris) | HerderEditorial (Barcelona) | HolaEdiciones** (Barcelona) | Iconomoteur (Avenay) | Ilbosco blu ediciones & lunablau (Barcelona) | InstantesGráficos (BuenosAires) | JuanCarrano (Barcelona) | L'ArengarioStudio Bibliografico (Gussago) | LaCapsa Erno** (Barcelona) | LaFábrica (Madrid) | Lalata (Albacete) | Libreríael Astillero (Barcelona) | Lubok (Leipzig) | MACBA (Barcelona) | Manuellaéditions (Paris) | MarbreNegre** (Barcelona) | MartaGrimalt** (Palma de Mallorca) | MercèSoler Paperworks (Barcelona) | MichalisPichler (Berlin) | Minimae (Madrid) | MNAC (Barcelona) | MultipressForlag (Oslo) | MünsterStudio** (Barcelona) | Museudel Disseny (Barcelona) | MuseuMolí Paperer de Capellades (Capellades) | MuseuPicasso (Barcelona) | Onestarpress (Paris) | PapelArtEdiciones (L'Hospitalet) | ParalaxeEditions** (Barcelona) | Photosai (Madrid) | Pointd’ironie (Paris) | RaíñaLupa (Barcelona) | Redfoxpress (County Mayo) | RocaUmbert Fàbrica de les Arts (Granollers) | Steidl (Göttingen) | StudioMontespecchio (Mòdena) | Tallerde gravat Manera Negra (Barcelona) | TDPapeles** (Barcelona) | TintaInvisible edicions (Barcelona) | TristanBarbarà (Barcelona) | Universitédu Havre & ESDAHaR (l’Haia) | XiloferaEdicions (Barcelona) | Zona230 + Map3s (Barcelona)

** Fun Fan Fest guest project exhibitors

ArtsLibris 2017 provides a dynamic and flexible space for debate, discussion, and exchange between authors, publishers and the general public. It holds a continuous program over the three days of the fair, with presentations of projects, dialogues and talks by artists and publishers, chaired by Glòria Picazo and Antonio Zúñiga.

Friday, April 21st

4 pm

Conversation

Ignasi Aballí (Barcelona) and Glòria Picazo talk about catalogues considered as artists’ books

5 pm

Presentation

Alicia Framis (Amsterdam) and Aurélien Le Genissel present the catalogue published by Blueproject Foundation on the occasion of the exhibition La habitación de los libros prohibidos by Alicia Framis at the Foundation.

6 pm

Conversation

Ahlam Shibli (Palestine) and Antonio Zúñiga talk about the inherent sequentiality on the Palestine artist’s work.

Saturday, April 22nd

1 pm

Performative reading

De Abacus a Zimbawe, performative reading departing from a series of words with the common theme La taula de treball, elaborated by the group 13L

4 pm

Conversation

Joan Fontcuberta (Barcelona) and Antonio Zúñiga talk about the narrative and fictional aspects of his work, seen not only on his books but also on his exhibitions displays.

5 pm

Presentation

Sandra Gamarra (Peru) and the curator Moritz Küng present the book Selección natural and other publishing works by the artist.

6 pm

Presentation

Israel Ariño (Barcelona) and the publisher Montse Puig (Ediciones Anómalas) present the book La gravetat del lloc.

Sunday, April 23rd

4 pm

Conversation

Daniel García Andújar (Barcelona) and Antonio Zúñiga talk about the artist’s wide publishing production, departing from the book LTI-Lingua Tertii Imperii, published by Documenta 14.

5 pm

Presentation

Michalis Pichler (Berlin) and Antonio Zúñiga present the book Thirteen Years, published in 2015 by Printed Matter with a large selection of works edited by the author.

6 pm

Presentation AL Series

Dramatised conference by Javier Peñafiel (Zaragoza) introduced by Glòria Picazo for the presentation of the third book of the AL Series, Teatro dentífrico.

Over the weekend there are a number of workshops for the general public with no prior requirements necessary. 

Bookbinding workshop

By the students of Books Art course from Escola Llotja de Barcelona

In this brief bookbinding workshop we try to familiarise the participants with the editing of two small books using different techniques.

Creating words using paper and seed

By Museu Molí Paper de Capellades

Workshop on experimentation with paper through writing and seed germination to form words. Workshop in collaboration with FLIC.

Artists: John Baldessari, Julián Barón, Christian Boltanski, Stan Brakhage, stanley brouwn, Ulises Carrión, Cine Quieto (Núria Gómez Gabriel i Gloria Vilches), Jef Cornelis, Patrícia Dauder, Guy Debord, Departament de Publicacions de RTVE, Fortunato Depero, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Vicente Huidobro, Dominique Hurth, William Kentridge, Rob van Leijsen, Rose Lowder, Chris Marker, Eline McGeorge, Miralda, László Moholy-Nagy, Raymond Pettibon, Marcel Pey, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Martha Rosler, Benet Rossell, Ed Ruscha, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, Gloria Vilches, Lawrence Weiner.

With more than twenty works of a dual nature –publication and film–, Legible – Visible. Between the Film Frame and the Page illustrates the interest of creators in interweaving and linking the printed page and the audio-visual document, overlapping them to the extent that they become almost fused into a single surface for creation. What happens when an artist "translates" certain content from a printed medium to an audio-visual format, or vice versa? What is changed, what is altered and what remains when this transposition of formats takes place? How do they complement or counterpose one another? This exhibition invites reflection on issues such as sequentiality, narrative, cinema, the passage of time, montage, representations of movement and, ultimately, the relationship between publications and audio-visual material, two of the most important media upon which the cultural and social landscape of our times is built.

http://artssantamonica.gencat.cat/ca/detall/Llegible-Visible

New York in photobooks

Curated by Horacio Fernández

Artists: Mario Bucovich, Berenice Abbott, Weegee, Roy DeCarava, William Klein, Helen Levitt, Jan Yoors, Walker Evans, André Kértész, Anthony Aviles & Don Charles, Eva Fuková, Miloň Novotný & Marie Šechtlová, Maspons & Ubiña, Ugo Mulas, Hasse Persson, Danny Lyon, Bruce Davidson, Lorinczy György, Daido Moriyama, Jon Naar, Keizo Kitajima, Claudio Edinger, Ken Schles, Juan Fresán, Ryan Weideman, Bruce Gilden, Nobuyoshi Araki, Alice Rose George, Gilles Peress, Michael Shulan and Charles Traub.

The exhibition New York in photobooks, curated by Horacio Fernández and produced by Centro José Guerrero in Granada, presents fifty books published in different countries during the 20th century. For the presentation in ArtsLibris, a selection of 28 photobooks are shown, which were published in the United States, Europe and Japan between 1931 and 2002. In these photobooks, New York is the object of an endless looks and sensibilities, in a wide variety of visual approaches: the report, the documentary, the traveling photo, the tourist record, the architecture, the advertising, the conceptual art, the archive culture, the combination of word and image, the formal experimentation and, above all, the street photography, the main figure of the best story of photography in the second half of the 20th century.

The AL Series, a publishing project by ArtsLibris, works in collaboration with the Fudanció Banc Sabadell and honours its annual commitment of releasing a limited edition of an artist’s book. This year’s publication is by Javier Peñafiel (Zaragoza, 1964), entitled Teatro dentífrico and designed by Alex Gifreu.

Glòria Picazo and the artist himself present this edition inspired in the Modellbuch (model books) by Bertolt Brecht, which involves the audience by inviting them to actively intervene on its pages.

ArtsLibris has two projects of limited editions: the AL Series, a collection of artists' books produced with the support of Fundació Banc Sabadell, and the limited edition of tote bags and gloves, sponsored this year by Blueproject Foundation and designed by Ana Garcia-Pineda.

The 4th International Symposium Faktura and Systematics of the Artist’s Book holds on April 21st and 22nd. It is divided into four conferences chaired by Glòria Picazo and Antonio Zúñiga and includes the participation of renowned professionals who debate three aspects of the culture industry where books work as a space and creative sign: the institutional model, the publisher, and the artist’s work.

With: Michael Mack, David Senior, Miguel von Hafe Pérez, David Maroto and Joanna Zielinska

Friday, April 21st

7 pm*

Publishing production and distribution

Michael Mack, founder and publishing director of Mack Books (London)

* Conferences in English with simultaneous translation to Catalan.

Saturday, April 22nd

12.30 pm

Publishing production and the artist’s work

Miguel von Hafe Pérez, publisher at Inc. Livros e edições de autor (Porto) and curator, ex-director of CGAC.

5 pm*

Institutional model

David Senior, curator and bibliographer at MoMA Library (New York).

* Conferences in English with simultaneous translation to Catalan.

6.30 pm*    

The artist’s work        

David Maroto and Joanna Zielinska, artist and publisher specialized on artists’ books, such as the project The Book Lovers.

* Conferences in English with simultaneous translation to Catalan.

Faktura and Systematics of the Artist’s Book

The artist’s book as we know it today was formalized among the innovative elements that emerged from the early 20th century artistic avant-garde movements, but it was not until the 1960s that it was further developed in Europe and North America.

The speakers taking part in this year’s ArtsLibris International Symposium come from London, New York, Warsaw and Lisbon. Forming an international quadrangle, or frieze, these professionals outline three aspects of the culture industry that already featured in Lissitzky’s observations when in 1928 he referred to the book as a space and creative sign. These three aspects are the institutional model, the publisher, and the artist’s work in the medium of books, which combine to foment and modify the notion of the artist’s book ‘relaunched’ in the context of the ever-increasing number of fairs and the growth of specific collections within the archives departments of contemporary art museums. 

Representing the institutional model is David Senior. He discusses the selection criteria used by the MoMA library and reveal how the collection’s contents are managed and made public.

The production and distribution of art books, where technique and industry come together to make real objects, is the area covered by publisher Michael Mack and curator Miguel von Hafe Pérez, who focus on the decisive role of the publisher who builds up a collection purely on the production of books, and of the curator whose selection of exhibition material forms a body that also shapes the idea of the artist’s book.

The third aspect of the symposium is the expansion and reconfiguration of the idea of the artist’s book in the figure of the artist him or herself. In The Books Lovers, artists David Maroto and Joanna Zielinska blur the professional margins and construct a curatorial piece with a set of books that acquire meaning through their project on the novel as artist’s book.

Fun Fan Fest is a festival, research platform and observatory of projects focused on local and international creative and collective groups that are linked to independent publishing through sound and image. Its way of working, based on the culture of proximity, prioritizes new creation based on the multidisciplinary and the coexistence of contexts; that seeks enrichment and local knowledge to build bridges globally. Fun Fan Fest is a project produced by Ana Manaia and Irma Marco from the TOOL_Eines per la Cultura platform. The presence of Fun Fan Fest as a guest project in ArtsLibris takes the form of a gathering of collectives and artists linked to independent edition through the exhibition of published material, art installations and works in progress, among others.

www.funfanfest.com

Exhibition

Hybrid Matter

Curated by Ana Manaia and Irma Marco

Artists: Acaso Hubo Búhos Acá, Arnau Sala, Diego Paonessa, Edu Comelles, Javi Álvarez, Lolo & Sosaku, Plom, Winebox Press, Marc O’Callaghan

Hybrid Matter presents the work of 8 artists and groups linked to independent publishing, either through sound-music or graphic art proposals: from vinyl records to video installations, moving sculptures and performance. In addition to being linked to independent publishing, their practices expand to the fields of graphic/fine arts and sound.

Work in progress

Graphic-sound installation in real time during the three days of the fair, Regula ab servos Libris, by Marc O’Callaghan.

Music

Saturday April 22, 8 pm: opening session by Dublab.es (Barcelona), Espai Balcó/Terrassa.

Sunday April 23, 8 pm: concert performance by Lolo & Sosaku (Japan/Argentina), first floor.

Family workshops

By Milimbo 

1, 2, 3 conta-me’l al revés

We can read a book like we can travel a road, creating plot and characters as we go along. Participants give shape to their book, open doors, cut forests and discover secrets hidden in their pages. We create a book to play and tell.

Zig zag – tris tras

Zigzagging til we get inside a book. A workshop for children in which to explore the possibilities of a picture in the context of a book.

Specialized workshop

By Eli Gras

Constructing a sound-book object

The aim is to create a book-object with a “snaking” illustrated text which also emits sound, by means of little wooden boxes, wire and rubber amongst other materials, and which of course has our own personal touch.

Participating workshop

By Fluorescer

Sshhht! Què?

"Group A looks at what is behind the corner book stand, the one who laughs and laughs in a strange way, the boy who is bored ... They describe it by broadcasting it live to the B team upstairs, they write, Draw and scribble. "

By allocating roles out to a very special working team we put together a book in situ using walkie talkies and mobile phones.

20th Century Art Archives, (Cambridge) I 42 Líneas – Escuela de Arte de Oviedo, (Oviedo) I 55SP, (São Paulo) I Alias Editorial, (Ciudad de México) I AMENGUAL&Co, (Calvià-Mallorca) I  Arquitectura y Fantasía, (Buenos Aires) I  ArtsLibris, (Barcelona) I Bon-Gah, (Teherán) I  Ca l’Isidret Edicions, (Sant Martí Sarroca - Barcelona) I Camen Alonso Libros, (Santander) I Casa de Velázquez, (Madrid) I Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana, (València) I CENDEAC, (Murcia) I consonni, (Bilbao) I Dalpine, (Madrid) I Danilo Montanari Editore, (Ravenna) I Editorial Alpha SL (Barcelona) I  Ediciones El Instante, (Madrid) I  Estudio Asia, (Madrid) I Estudio Mínimo (Madrid) I Rodrigo Gómez – FIFV, (Valparaíso) I Florence Loewy, (París) I EL FONDO. Colección García-Ramos (Madrid) I Instantes Gráficos, (Buenos Aires) I Juan Naranjo Galería de Arte & Documentos, (Barcelona) I  L’Arengario Studio Bibliografico, (Gussago-Brescia) I Kris Graves Projects, (Nueva York) I La Maleta de Portbou (Barcelona) I Librería El Astillero, (Colindres-Cantabria) I  Livraria Madalena, (São Paulo) I Meteoro Editions, (Ámsterdam) I No_Libros, (Barcelona) I  Per(r)ucho, (València) I PezPlata Ediciones, (Madrid) I  progettoSKIA, (Italia) I Proyecto Arte - EDICIONES, (Valladolid) I Proyecto Ronda, (Buenos Aires) I  Raíña Lupa / RocíoSantaCruz, (Barcelona) I Revista CONCRETA (València) I Risotop Verlag, (Leipzig) I Samopal, (Moscú) I Studio Montespecchio (Montespecchio) I Taller del Prado, (Madrid) I Temblores Publicaciones (México) I Tinta Invisible, (Barcelona) I  Tristan Barbarà Editions, (Barcelona) I Turner Publicaciones (Madrid) I Value Manifesto, (Basilea)

Thursday 27th February  

12h

Mauro Giaconi, Dorothée Dupuis,  Marta Ramos Izquierdo and Ana Gallardo

Lead Season

The first extensive monographic catalogue will be presented by the Argentinian artist Maura Giaconi. This catalog is included in the new collection of Temblores Publicaiones monographic, the editorial label of Terremoto Magazine, produced with the support of Arróniz Gallery. The goal of the bilingual series (spanish-english) is to visualize mid-career Latin American artists, as well as providing critical tools about their own art through the work with leading authors from the art world who are part of the Terremoto network.

13h

Concreta

Presentation of the magazine Concreta #14. Autumn

Participation: Pedro G. Romero, artist and Laura Vallés, editor

Presentation of the publication number 14 of the Concreta Magazine. The number poses an intertwining of rrom, gypsies and flamencos in order to define the field as a real and sensitive construction, full of trompe l'oil, traps, and snares.

15h

Amengual&Co

Photobooks: the art of photography put on the page

Participation: Toni Amengual, Paula Artés and Lucía Peluffo, photographers

Presentation of the selection of photobooks from the Amengual&Co stand, and why books are artworks itselves and the requirements a photobook must have to be one, and to be a work of art in itself.

16h

Dalpine

La forma del Estado Límite Último

Participation: Miriam Fernández Lara, author and Jaime Narváez, designer

La forma del Estado Límite Último is a publication in which the drawing of shapes created from the laws of effort is superimposed on images of collapsed bridges. Thus, we can visualize the instant before the catastrophe. It is about gestures of rehabilitation of those bridges, more ideal than physical, that allow us to look at failure in a different way.

17h

Instantes Gráficos

The word in motion... the body in the present, the instant in action

Participation: Carla Rey, editor, Adriana Cora and Veronica Bonta, artists

Talk about the collection: Basta la palabra, which visualizes the power of the word as a gesture, the word as a mark of power and Abracadabra, a publication made up of sentences by each artist, which promote feminine strength, sisterhood and freedom.

18h

20th Century Art Archives

Tauba Auerbach around Diagonal Press

Participation: Louisa Riley-Smith, editor

Considered one of the preeminent artist bookstores of her generation, Tauba Auerbach made several artist books with other publishers before she decided to make art in book form with her own label. 20th Century Art Archives will present these books and give an illustrated talk through the publications, explaining the inventive ways in which the artist has used different technologies for each book.

19h

No_Libros

Karma Girls

Participation: Edu Forte photographer and Carla Cascales, model

Edu Forte proposes an exercise that forces the limits between the always ambiguous relationship between photographer and model, venturing to take the photos that others can only imagine, giving us clues about the keys that give us access to the karma of certain girls. 

Friday 28th February 

13h

Turner

Nuances of art in Latin America

Participation: Andrea Hinteregger De Mayo (art curator and author of the book), Stefan Benchoam, artist from Guatemala, who is part of Proyecto Ultravioleta collective and Santiago Fernández de Caleya, director of TURNER.

Is there such a thing as Latin American art? Is it necessary this tag in the world of globalized art? Andrea Hinteregger De Mayo and Stefan Benchoam will discuss around these questions and about the cultural bridges that are built by bringing together universal interests that drive artistic practice.

15h

Meteoro Editions

Publications from the archive

Participation: Pablo Lerma, editor, Martínez Bellido, author, Jesús Alcaide, curator and Jon Snyder, scholar.

Ira Lombardy and Martinez Bellido publications are articulated around found images and/or vernacular photographic archives with special interest in the re-reading and categorization of the image from contemporary practice. 

16h

consonni

Crítica visual del saber solitario

Participations: Aurora Fernández Polanco, author and Ana Longoni, researcher

The book Crítica visual del saber solitario (Visual criticism of the solitary knowledge)  claims both the aesthetics and the knowledge of a body increasingly damaged by the logics of capital. The markedly political intention of this essay invites us to decide what to save and what to condemn from the world that has guided our knowledge.

17h

Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana

Presentation of publications of the programme Trajectòries 

Participations: José Luis Pérez Pont, director of the Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana

The publications of the exhibitions dedicated to Xisco Mensua, 15.600 días, Teresa Cebrián, El largo viaje, Ana Teresa Ortega, Pasado y presente, la memória y su construcción and Fuencisla Francés, Punto de fuga will be presented.

Saturday 29th February

13h 

Centro Párraga and CENDEAC

Book-catalogue launched by the artist Bene Bergado, edited for the exhibition “Persona”, curated by Manuel Oliveira en MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León and the Centro Párraga, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de la Región de Murcia. Participants: Bene Bergado, artist, curator of the exhibition and director, and Sergio Porlán, coordinador of Centro Párraga and CENDEAC.

14h

Taller del Prado

Enigma Magazine

Presented by: Enrique González Flores and Francisco Molina Montero, editors

Enigma magazine is a publishing project that is somehow inspired by the French magazine Derrière le miroir, published along several decades by the Maeght Foundation, where a space is created to provide free rein to the artists' creativity since 2014.

15h

Instantes Graficos

Artista en acción by Juan Carlos Romero

Participations: Hugo F Romero, editor, Marcela Romer and Ana Longoni, researchers

Presentation of the book that gathers the works on paper belonging to the art-blogging collection, and that cover all the periods of this great Argentine conceptual artist Juan Carlos Romero.

16h

Casa Velázquez and BonGah 

The Invisible Monument by Sara Kamalvand - A collaboration between Spain and Iran

Participations: Sara Kamalvand, artist and architect (Casa de Velázquez 2019-2020), Mahmoud Bakhshi and Sonia Berger, editors

The Invisible Monumento by Sara Kamalvand, shows the process of an anachronistic reading of Tehran using underground layers of an abandoned irrigation network to reveal its contemporary nature and needs. During her year of residence in Madrid, Sara Kamalvand is developing a project on Madrid's underground channels, which still passively irrigate the city.

17h

Raíña Lupa and Galería Rocio Santa Cruz

Guillotina by Lluís Hortalà

Participations: Pablo Juncadella, designer and co-founder of Mucho, Lluís Hortalà, artist and moderator, and Oriol Fontdevila, curator of the exhibition and author of the text of the catalogue

Talk about the catalogue of the artist Lluis Hortalà. As in his work, the presence of classical and modern binding techniques coexist in an attempt to better explain the pieces in a publishing environment.

18h 

Estudio Asia

Landscape Flashes. Relationship between the real and the unreal, through the landscape: a Chinese vision.

Participations: Ren Bo, author of the photobook Nomadic Sight, and Jose Reinoso, editor

In the presentation, the author will discuss the influence of traditional Chinese art forms, such as landscape with chinese ink and calligraphy, on contemporary photography. Ren Bo will try to explain how, as a Chinese artist, she uses photography and two of its main ingredients - time and space - to shed some light on this issue.

19h

No_Libros

Louise Bourgeois and Feminist Ways of Creating by Gabriela Barzaghi De Laurentiis

Presenter: Patricia Mayayo, researcher

When it seemed difficult to tell something different about Bourgeois, Gabriela Barzaghi De Laurentiis surprises us with a book outside the established framework. As Bourgeois' cats venture into an interpretative leap: in the face of a depoliticized gaze that closes the work off from possible meanings, confining it to the narrow hermeneutic framework of psychobiography, the author proposes a feminist and radically political approach to the artist.

Sublevar las formas (The Insurgence of Forms) | co-ordinated and chaired by Andrea Soto Calderón.

Curated by Andrea Soto Calderón, PhD in Philosophy, professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory

SESSION 1: Actos de edición | Pedro G. Romero & Nuria Enguita // Publications actions 
26 February, 18.30-19.30 hrs

SESSION 2: Los lenguajes de la performance | Joan Morey and Manuel Olveira Paz // The languages of performance
27 February, 18.30-19.30 hrs

SESSION 3: Economías de lo visible | Emmanuel Alloa and Max de Esteban // Economies of the visible
29 February, 18.30-19.30 hrs

SESSION 4: Errancias del cuerpo | Cristina Lucas and Itziar Okariz // Meanderings of the body 
28 February, 18.30-19.30 hrs

Wednesday 27 February

16.00 h

Unreachable Empires was conceived by Sigismond de Vajay, who in this book combines his drawings with essays by the novelist Mario Bellatín, the glaciologist Bruno Jourdain and the geographer and biotechnologist Elizabeth R. Johnson. It has been published by Kültur Büro Barcelona/Buenos Aires and The JRP Ringier (Zurich).

17.00 h

In connection with its programme of internships for artists, Fabienne Aguado, director of artistic studies at the Casa de Velázquez — Académie de France à Madrid, will present Action Comics 1 (Détournement), publication by Martín Vitaliti gestated during his internship, in company with the artist and the publisher ferranElOtro.

18.00 h

We will talk about the origin and development of Alias Editorial, a project of the Mexican artist Damián Ortega who publishes texts that he considers to be valuable references of contemporary art and are not available in the Spanish-speaking countries: an exercise of artistic practice that has grown to become a full-scale publishing house.

Thursday 28 Februray 

16.00 h

Ana Garcia-Pineda, together with the commissioner Martí Manen, presents Más máquinas y maquinaciones (More Machines and Machinations), a book in which the artist celebrates the most intimate and Dadaist day-to-day life, “writedrawing” about vital aspects of existence through a set of inventions centred in “third-degree disasters”.

17.00 h

Consonni presents its new publications together with Iván de la Nuez, author of Teoría de la retaguardia (Theory of the Rearguard) — an ironic manifesto that alludes to Peter Bürger’s Theory of the Vanguard— and to the artist Maider López, who has produced the intervention “Marcapáginas” (Bookmark) in the book Video Green by Chris Kraus. Olga Fernández López moderates the conversation.

16.00h

Unknown Photographers is a post-photographic project of the artist Andrés Galeano, based on montages of photos extracted from found photograph albums, which reflects the latent desire of every photograph to transcend the instant. The artist presents it in collaboration with the Portuguese commissioner Sérgio Fazenda.

Friday 1 March

16.00 h

To commemorate its fifth anniversary, Blueproject Foundation presents the special edition Still Blue, with some of the collaborators such as María Jacarilla, Anna Dot and Aurélien Le Genissel and the team of the foundation: Renato Della Poeta, Pedro Torres and Cristina López Morcuende.

17.00 h

In The (Invisible) Art of Documenting Art, published by Caniche Editorial, Cristina Garrido reflects the history, or at least one of the histories, of the “B side” of art: the (invisible) figure of the photographer who documents contemporary art.

18.00h

STET Livros & fotografias presents the book Ether/ um laboratório of fotografia e história, by Susana Lourenço Marques with preface by Horacio Fernández, dedicated to the gallery and publisher of photography that had the greatest impact on photographic culture in Portugal in the eighties and nineties. With the participation of the author, Horacio Fernández and Filipa Valladares.

Saturday 2 March

16.00 h

The essay Disputas sobre lo contemporáneo. Spanish art between antifrancoism and postmodernism, by Juan Albarrán, opens the collection “Textos inevitables” (Unavoidable Texts) by Exit Editorial. It is presented by its author along with Rosa Olivares, Victor del Río and Patricia Mayayo.

17.00 h

The veteran collection of CRU artist books, directed by Alex Gifreu is now publishing its number 052. In this presentation, some of the artists and collaborators who have been involved with the project throughout its history will tell us the key points of this publishing project.

18.00 h

The Peruvian publisher Meier Ramirez presents the book De tiempo en tiempo un volcán estalla (From Time to Time a Volcano Explodes), by the photographer Gihan Tubbeh, in a conversation between the artist and the curator Jorge Villacorta.

Sunday 3 March

12.00 h

“Niño de Elche” (Child of Elche) (Francisco Contreras Molina), Darío Corbeira (director of Brumaria) and Pedro José Mariblanca Corrales talk about the book Niño de Elche. The golpe que necesitábamos (Child of Elche. The Blow We Need), in which Mariblanca reflects on the work of the singer relating his music with philosophy and critical thought.

13.00 h

The presentation of the trilogy Absence on stage /escenarios de la ausencia, a selection of scenographs of Japanese noh theatre published by Photosai Art Editions, will be attended by the artist Darío Álvarez and Alfredo Mateos Paramio, publisher of Photosai.

55SP (São Paulo) | Alias (Ciudad de México) | Archeles Ediciones de Arte (Madrid) | ArtsLibris (Barcelona) Blueproject Foundation (Barcelona) | Brumaria (Madrid) | Caniche Editorial (Madrid) | Carmen Alonso Libros (Santander) | Casa de Velázquez (Madrid) |  CENDEAC (Murcia) | Consonni (Bilbao) | Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana (Valencia) | Contexto Ediciones (Lima) | Danilo Montanari Editore (Rávena) | Editorial Alpha (Barcelona) | Editorial RM (Barcelona/México) | Enciclopèdia Art (Barcelona) | Florence Loewy (París) | Instantes Gráficos (Buenos Aires)  | Juan Naranjo Galería de Arte & Documentos (Barcelona) | Kültur Büro (Barcelona/Buenos Aires) | L’Arengario Studio Bibliografico (Gussago - Brescia) | Librería El Astillero (Colindres - Cantabria) |  Livraria Madalena (São Paulo) | M&S Aventuras Literarias (Encinillas - Segovia) | Meier Ramirez (Lima) | Photosai (Madrid) | RAC / Sandra Gamarra (Pontevedra / Madrid) | RocioSantaCruz / Raíña Lupa (Barcelona) | STET - Livros & fotografias (Lisboa) | Studio Montespecchio (Módena) | TEOR/éTica (San José - Costa Rica) | Tinta Invisible (Barcelona)  | Tristan Barbarà (Barcelona) 

20th Century Art Archives (Cambridge) | AHORA, Ediciones de Bibliofilia y Libros de Artista (Murcia) | Alias (México) | Archeles Ediciones de Arte (Madrid) | Arte-blogarte (Buenos Aires) | Brumaria (Madrid) | Casa de Velázquez (Madrid) | Carmen Alonso Libros (Santander) | Carmen Araujo Arte Ediciones (Caracas) | Consonni (Bilbao) | Danilo Montanari editore (Ravenna) | Editorial RM (Barcelona/Mexico) | Enciclopèdia Art (Barcelona) | Fanzinant (Madrid) |  Instantes Gráficos (Buenos Aires) | Juan Naranjo Galería de Arte & Documentos (Barcelona) | L'Arengario Studio Bibliografico (Gussago) | La Rueda Distribución (Madrid) | Librería el Astillero (Cantabria) | Mercè Soler Paperworks (Barcelona) | Naranja Librería & Editorial (Santiago de Chile) | Nocapaper Books & More (Santander) | Pacabooks (Gijón) | Photosai (Madrid) | Proyecto arte EDICIONES (Valladolid) | Studio Montespecchio (Modena) | Tinta Invisible (Barcelona) | Tristan Barbarà (Barcelona) | William Allen Word & Image (London)

Wednesday, February 22

1 pm

Instantes Gráficos presents for the first time the book Tabula Rasa, by Carlos Ginzburg, with the artist and Carla Rey, director, who will also introduce the publishing group project.

6 pm

Nocapaper Books & More presents a book by Nacho Martín Silva, from the Pocket Series collection (numbered artists’ book with an exclusive portfolio inside).

Thursday, February 23

1 pm

Tinta Invisible presents the project La singularitat és subversiva, led by Manuel Guerrero, with original graphic work by Hannah Collins, Joan Fontcuberta, Pedro G. Romero, Perejaume and Jana Sterbak.

6 pm

Presentation of the publishing project consonni and the book Artoons by Pablo Helguera, with the artist Álvaro Predices, who translated the book.

7 pm

Martín Vitaliti presents his new book Sin coordenadas (Tren en Movimiento Ediciones) with Glòria Picazo, curator, and the artist Francesc Ruiz.

Friday, February 24

1 pm

Tristan Barbarà presents ab intra, with images by Quicu Estivill and text by Victor Sunyol, on the presence of the authors.

6 pm

Nocapaper Books & More presents two books from the Special Books collection: Escombro, by Ignacio Pérez Jofre (published jointly with LA.GRAN) and the book by Laura F. Gibellini (published jointly with Slowtrack).

7 pm

Presentation of Fanzinant, a project about photographic fanzine, La Rueda Distribución, specialized distributor of books and special publications, and some of their books.

Saturday, February 25

1 pm

Sic\Art Edicions presents their publishing project with some of the authors and the book Postales desde la acción crítica, on the presence of some of the 33 participating critics and curators.

6 pm

Archeles Ediciones de Arte presents the new rotogravure Suite, Luz Solar.

Archeles Ediciones de Arte (Madrid) | Big Sur Books (Buenos Aires) | Casa de Velázquez (Madrid) | Círculo del Arte (Barcelona) | Consonni (Bilbao) | Danilo Montanari editore (Ravena) | Del Infinito (Buenos Aires) | Ediciones L'Horta Gràfica (Valencia) | Ediciones Originales (Granada–Barcelona) | Éditions Jannink (Paris) | Éditions Xavier Barral (Paris) | Editorial Micromegas (Murcia)  | Fanzinant (Madrid) | Instantes Gráficos (Buenos Aires) | L'Arengario Studio Bibliografico (Gussago) | La Rueda Distribución (Madrid) | Librería El Astillero (Barcelona) | Lubok (Leipzig) | Nocapaper Books & More (Santander) | Nocapaper Books (Santander) | Raíña Lupa (Barcelona) | Sic\Art Edicions (Vilafranca del Penedès) | Studio Montespecchio (Modena) | STEIDL (Göttingen) | Tinta Invisible (Barcelona) | Tristan Barbarà (Barcelona) | We Do Not Work Alone (Paris) 

Parallel to the ArtsLibris offer, an extensive program of activities has been carried out, in which we highlight the celebration of the International Symposium on Artist's Book. It is generally divided into four conferences, in which several specialists have reflected on topics that revolve around the artist's books, understood in the broadest sense of the term, and donor to know the task of different European collections. This activity is expanded with the Speakers' Corner, a dynamic space that hosts a continuous program of presentation of projects, as well as dialogues between artists and their editors. 

Wednesday, February 22nd

1 pm

Instantes Gráficos presents for the first time the book Tabula Rasa, by Carlos Ginzburg, with the artist and the director Carla Rey, who also presents the project of the publishing group.

6 pm

Nocapaper Books & More presents the book by Nacho Martín Silva, from the collection Pocket Series (numbered artist monographs with an exclusive notebook inside).

Thursday, 23rd February

1 pm

Tinta Invisible presents the project La singularitat és subversiva, directed by Manuel Guerrero, with an original graphic work by Hannah Collins, Joan Fontcuberta, Pedro G. Romero, Perejaume and Jana Sterbak.

6 pm

Presentation of the publishing project Consonni and the book Artoons, by Pablo Helguera, with the artist Álvaro Predices, who has translated the book.

7 pm

Martín Vitaliti presents his new book Sin coordenadas (Tren en Movimiento Ediciones) with the curator Glòria Picazo and the artist Francesc Ruiz.

Friday, February 24th

1 pm

Tristan Barbarà presents ab intra, with images by Quicu Estivill and texts by Victor Sunyol, with the authors.

6 pm

Nocapaper Books & More presents two books from the collection Special Books: Escombro, by Ignacio Pérez Jofre (coedited with LA.GRAN) and Laura F. Gibellini book (coedited with Slowtrack).

7 pm

Presentation of Fanzinant, a photographic fanzines project, La Rueda Distribución, distributor specialized in special books and publications, and some of its editions.

Saturday, February 25th

1 pm

Sic\Art Ediciones presents its publishing project, with some authors, and the book Postales desde la acción crítica, with some of the 33 critics and curators who take part in the edition.

6 pm

Archeles Ediciones de Arte presents the new Suite of helio-engraving Luz Solar.

13L (Barcelona)

42 LINEAS / ESCUELA DE ARTE DE OVIEDO (Oviedo)

55SP (São Paulo)

Ad Hoc (Bilbao)

Afrique in Visu (Paris)

Alias Editorial (Ciudad de México)

And the editions (Viena)

ARTE ESTAMPA (Madrid)                                                                                                                               

Artphilein Editions (Lugano)

Atelier Concorde (Lisboa)

Bonito Editorial (Bilbao)

Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal)

Carmen Alonso Libros (Santander)

Carmen Hurtado (Barcelona)

CENDEAC (Murcia)

Chucherías de Arte (Madrid)

Coral Books (Matosinhos)

Danilo Montanari (Ravena)

Editorial Gustavo Gili (Barcelona)

Editorial Vortex (Viña del Mar)

Edizioni Corraini (Mantua)

ESAD—idea Investigação em Design e Arte (Matosinhos)

Eulàlia Espasa (Barcelona)

Gabinete Editions (Lisboa)

GHOST Editions (Lisboa)

Gli Ori srl (Pistoia)

Gravuras no Brasil (São Paulo)

Hangar Books (Lisboa)

Holobionte Ediciones (Barcelona)

Imago/Ymago (Lisboa)

Instantes Gráficos (Buenos Aires)

Juan Naranjo Galería de Arte & Documentos (Barcelona)

L’Arengario Studio Bibliográfico  (Brescia)

Librería El Astillero (Cantabria)

Loreley Books (São Paulo)

Louise Charles Tiar (Madrid)

Meel Press (Lisboa)

Metales Pesados (Santiago de Chile)

Naranja Publicaciones (Santiago de Chile)

No_Libros (Barcelona - São Paulo)

Per(r)ucho (Valencia)

PEZPLATA EDICIONES (Madrid)

Pierre Von Kleist (Lisboa)

Pierrot Le Fou (Oporto)

Raíña Lupa/RocíoSantaCruz (Barcleona)

Red Fox Press (Ilha de Achill – Irlanda)

Roser Sales Noguera (Barcelona)

Rubén Barroso (Barcelona)

RV Cultura e Arte (Salvador da Bahia)

STET - livros & fotografias (Lisboa)

Textem Verlag (Hamburgo)

Tinta Invisible edicions (Barcelona)

Tristan Barbará (Barcelona)

Urucum (Lisboa)

Value Manifesto GmbH (Basilea)

Foro Streaming ARCOlisboa Online Edition

In this video Andrea Soto Calderón, in charge of coordinating the seminars of ArtsLibris 2020, gives us a preview of the content of our participation in the ARCOlisbon Streaming Forum that will take place on June 11 at 6pm (Portuguese time). The theme of the conversation proposed by ArtsLibris will revolve around How can we think the artist's publications today?

News from the publishers participating in ArtsLibris ARCOlisbon 2020 

13L, Barcelona
Title: Encants

Author: Alicia Vela; Antònia Vilà; Cristina Pastó; Jo Milne, Eugènia Agustí; Montse Carreño and Raquel Muñoz; David Curto; Enric Mas; Mercè Casanovas, Eva Vila y Eloi Puig.
13L is a group of artists from Barcelona that was formed in 1998. They develop their work mainly in graphic art, but also with other media. Their link is the spirit of research and collaboration. The collective 13L Llibres d'artista is preparing for the edition of ArtsLibris Barcelona 2020, Encants in memory and homage to their partner Rosa Tarruella. She is also a friend of ArtsLibris whom we will all miss. Reviewing among her books, her photographs, her haykus, her bird collections and other familiar and endearing objects, Encants is a process update akin to Lévi-Strauss' "wild thought", which collects thoughts without subjecting them to the imperatives of domestication.

42 líneas Escuela de Arte de Oviedo, Oviedo
Title: Libromega
Author: Collective creation
The School of Art of Oviedo, through its publishing house 42 Ediciones de Arte, presents the project of the LIBROMEGA centre, a collection of self-published publications in which the entire educational community participates. With consolidated studies as a national reference for the various specialities it teaches (CFGS Art Edition, Engraving and Printing Techniques, Photography, Printed Graphics, Illustration, Ephemeral Architecture, Furnishing and Sculpture Applied to the Spectacle), the Oviedo School of Art is a centre with almost 250 years of existence, characterised by its commitment to integration and participation with its cultural and artistic environment. Here below is a video where the authors of Libromega explain the process of their collective creation.

55SP, Sao Paulo
Title: Lisbon Blues Tiles
Author: Marilá Dardot
Lisbon Blues (2018) began as an installation composed of approximately thirty boxes on display at the Nanogaleria in Lisbon, reflecting the brands of that contemporary city. Collected by Marilá Dardot (1973, Belo Horizonte) over a period of four months, they were not the object of any intervention or pictorial process by the artist and the bluish tone is due to the exposure to the sun that they were subjected to for several years in the shop windows of small shops in Lisbon. The deployment of Lisbon Blues Tiles, arises from a process of selection, digitization and reorganization in 15x15cm squares. The boxes of this installation were recontextualized creating a methodology - recurrent action in the artist's work.

Ad Hoc, Bilbao
Title: La noche salva
Author: Iván Gómez
La noche salva is a short story, a game of mirrors in which imagination, narration and the course of a journey in the life of a writer named Elijah are interwoven. He stays at the luxurious Hondarribia Parador, as the court and the painter Don Diego Velázquez once did. Just like today, the other guests who accompany him and who will unknowingly become part of his guiding text for a script.

Afrique in Visu, Paris
Title: Boyhood, Launch of Oath Magazine
Author: Collective creation (photo by Alice Mann)
Recently founded in Cape Town, 'Oath Magazine' is a print platform that displays a beautiful mantra: promoting emerging talent. "Since my return to South Africa, I have been looking for a way to engage in a constructive dialogue about photography on the web. There are not enough platforms for photographers who do great work. This magazine aims to create stronger links between the continent's photographic communities and develop relationships with photographers who have a thirst to tell their own stories," explains founder Stephanie Blomkamp.

Alias Editorial, Ciudad de México
Title: Conversando con Marcel Duchamp
Author: Pierre Cabanne
In the words of the publisher: The idea of publishing Conversando con Marcel Duchamp by Pierre Cabanne, originally published in 1967 under the title Entretiens avec Marcel Duchamp, arose from a friend who gave me Dialogues With Marcel Duchamp, the English version of this interview, warning me that I would enjoy each of its pages. I then asked some friends to help me with the translation. The content was translated by different people, with different fonts, in different circumstances, cities and countries. For example, Maria Gutierrez translated "I live the life of a waiter" in the New York subway, during her daily commute home. Richard Moszka translated a fragment of "Una ventana hacia otra cosa" (A window to something else); Manuel Rocha did the same in his Parisian attic in the city of Tlalpa. Laureana Toledo was in charge of "A través del Gran vidrio" in Oaxaca, and Abraham Cruz Villegas of "Me gusta más respirar que trabajar" in his native Ixtapalucan. The choice of typeface was up to each translator; and it was also their decision to use the pronoun "tu" or "usted" as the voice with which Duchamp and Cabanne refer to each other. This exercise of appropriation seemed to me to be a way of bringing a new inhabitant to our language: Marcel Duchamp.

And The Editions, Viena
Title: PALMA (& EDITION)
Author: Sarah Ortmeyer
Sarah Ortmeyer's "PALMA (& EDITION)" is part of the artist's "emoji shadow series", which the artist exhibited lately in solo shows at Kunstverein Munich and at Chicago Manual of Style. Depicting the shadow of the famous palm emoticon, it captures the essence of the codex as both a type of script and a physical object capable of existing in nature. And the editions was founded in September 2019 by Anna Ebner and is distributing multiples and editions by contemporary artists.

Arte Estampa, Madrid
Founded in 1986 in an old farmhouse in Chamartín, Madrid, it is dedicated to the production and diffusion of Contemporary Art, with special emphasis on graphic arts and artwork on paper. Its mission is the stimulation of the plastic art world from the conception of the work to the communication with the public.

Artphilien Editions, Lugano
Title: I wish the world was even
Author: Matteo Di Giovanni
I wish the world was even is a travel diary. Matteo Di Giovanni travels north by car, cutting Europe vertically, through the winter. (…) To look at the world through the eyes of Matteo means, in the first place, to be always immersed in the landscape, and to see it flowing along the sides of the road. We are then driven outside to face the journey. We learn to take a certain distance from what appears in front of us. Neither too far nor too close. A sort of safety distance that takes in a rather large picture while, at the same time, revealing an irresistible curiosity to look better and get closer. Barriers and obstacles inevitably turn up.They are met and overcome.” Giulia Zorzi

Atelier Concorde, Lisboa
Author: Maria Joana Vilela, João Pinharanda and Fernando Rosa Dias
"(...)Of stirring the painting the artist pursues the vice of discovery. Immerges hands, looks for fissures, transparencies, light entries. One tries to brighten the dense dark of the paint, liquid, but thick. It touches matter primitively. Acts dependent on the mystery that it hides, rehearsing a laborious attention which further deepens the dive. It is left in depth for a long time until the thought merges with the gesture through the bringing. (...) Maria Joana Vilela, 2017

Bonito Editorial, Bilbao
Title: Fragmentos de mis pensamientos
Author: Květa Pacovská
First book of theory and illustration by the Czech artist Květa Pacovská. 128 pages of illustrations and thoughts about form, color, children's albums, textures, paper... in two languages integrated between abstract illustrations, published in bilingual: English and Spanish. Printed in black and white "because the maximum contrast is the maximum beauty" a jewel to understand the guidelines that follow one of the most important contemporary illustrators in the world.

Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal
Title: This is when the battle begins
Author: Pierre Jeanneret
Text from a note written by Pierre Jeanneret. Photograph of his office with his shadow in the foreground, circa 1953.“I recently visited the CCA to study the archive of Pierre Jeanneret, who served as Chandigarh’s first chief architect from 1952 to 1965 and without whom Le Corbusier’s capital project could not have been realized. Having grown up within the built works that comprise the real “collection” of Chandigarh, I can personally relate to the city’s buildings and, with my architectural background, I can also consider them through a professional lens. I present a viewpoint of both user and critic. That sets my objective and tone for this narrative.” Sangeeta Bagga on Pierre Jeanneret's archive.

Carmen Alonso Libros, Santander
Title: 7 FOTOS B/N. MARIO VARGAS LLOSA.
Carmen Alonso Libros opened its doors in Santander in 2013, after a long journey between books. She started in 1992 as co-owner of Carmichael Alonso Libros. After 20 years the bookstore was divided and the new project of Carmen Alonso Libros began.

We continue with more ArtsLibris at ARCOlisboa Online Edition next week!

Repetition as a book concept

In this video Moritz Kung reflects on the concept of repetition in the artist's book. To do so, he has selected 5 books from his personal library that work, each in a different way, on the notions of alternation, repetition and reproduction. The books on this tour are: Circles by Kristján Gudmundsson; Profilo Continuo by Sophie Nys; 360º by Martín Vitaliti; Is there something should know? by Stefanie Leinhos and Raw Materials by Bruce Nauman.

News from the publishers participating in ArtsLibris ARCOlisbon 2020

Carmen Hurtado (HU editions), Barcelona
Title:  La montaña mágica
Author: Carmen Hurtado

The project is articulated through the layers of the passing time. The mountain of Turo de la Rovira is one of the oldest in Barcelona. It contains the remains of the layers of the city's history. "Time, in fact, has no breaks, no thunder, no storm, no sound of trumpets at the beginning of a new month or a new year and even in the soul of a new cycle; only men fire cannon shots and ring bells" Fragment of The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann. A work made up of five pieces printed in double-sided risography. Print run of 50 copies. Made of 80 gram recycled paper.

CENDEAC, Murcia
Title: The artists' book
Author: Carlos Jiménez

This collection of Carlos Jimenez' writings is divided into two parts. The first, "Calas", gathers a brief sample of the texts dedicated to the artists uploaded to his blog throughout a decade. The second, "Essays", includes those dedicated to four women artists whose works stand out for their sharp aesthetic quality and the topicality and relevance of the issues and themes they address. Between them they make up a collage that evokes the multifaceted intervention of women in the contemporary art scene.

Chucherías de Arte, Madrid
Title:  ¡Fuera ruido!
Author: Antonia Santolaya

We inhabit a belief system that thinks us. Beliefs that generate obsessions, pain bodies and reactions. That which occupies us, lives us and the consequences of our thoughts. We repeat and perpetuate memories. ¡Fuera ruido! it is the internal desoKupation and from there... let's see what happens!

Coral Books, Matosinhos
Title: Desenhos Higiénicos
Author: Nikias Skapinakis

Nowhere else in Nikias Skapinakis' work is his mastery demonstrated as in this series of long drawings on paper rolls, in the style of ancient Chinese painting or the exquisite surrealist corpse. These detailed landscapes deformed by Nikias' pen have been reproduced in silkscreen and enhanced through a birch box that allows to keep the drawing and to contemplate it, unroll it, at the rhythm of each one. An informative booklet, with essays by Bernardo Pinto de Almeida and José-Augusto França, among others, completes the work.

Danilo Montanari, Ravenna 
Title: Silvia Camporesi - Il mondo è tutto ciò che accade
Author: Claudia Casali

The book includes the entire artistic journey of Silvia Camporesi, divided into thematic sections, introduced by a card, edited by the author herself, which contextualizes her work. The book also contains a text by Claudia Casali, director of MIC in Faenza, which relates a conversation between the artist and the critic and curator Carlo Sala.

Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona
Title: La belleza del objeto cotidiano
Author: Soetsu Yanagi

Soetsu Yanagi is an indispensable thinker, hitherto unpublished in Spanish, and one of the key voices of the 20th century in drawing attention to the value of everyday objects and anonymous craftsmanship. This book, which compiles the short essays of the Japanese critic, will teach us to look around us with new eyes and to admire the incredible material and intangible value of the anonymous creations, always beautiful and honest, that are part of our daily life.

Editorial Vortex, Viña del Mar
Title: ZOOM
Author: Adolfo Bimer

ZOOM presents, by way of a visual essay, an investigation that the artist Adolfo Bimer carries out on the origins of his processes and his works. It constitutes a compendium of images from diverse origins gathered around the theme that has been a constant in the artist's work; the human body.

Edizioni Corraini, Mantova
Title: Ritratti di umanità
Author: AAVV

From October 2 to 6, 2018, writer Elvira Dones and illustrator Marco Cazzato were the protagonists of a "Sendero del Autor" entitledRetratos de la Humanidad, in the Pollino National Park. From this immersion in the small villages, in the Arbëreshe communities, from the explorations of places and faces, from the meetings and the testimonies collected, three life stories and twenty-five illustrated plates came out, which were exhibited in 2019, in Matera and Latronico. These stories and illustrations are now collected in this publication.

ESAD_Idea, Investigação em Design e Arte, Matosinhos
Títle: Frontiere – Expressões de Design Contemporâneo
Author: AAVV

Frontiere — Contemporary Design Expressions presents stories from Italian designers, companies, schools and associations as they react to the stimuli and difficulties of the post-millennium reality and discover new dimensions in the approach to design, as well as new ways of thinking, designing and producing. Keeing the title of the exhibition, this book is the result of an extensive research on the creative, entrepreneurial and social dynamics that currently shape the Italian territory and its reality, showing the best and most up-to-date objects in contemporary Italian design. This book was published in occasion of Porto Design Biennale.

Eulàlia Espasa, Barcelona
Títle: Paràsits
Author: Eulàlia Espasa

The book Paràsits contains 18 original prints by Eulàlia Espasa i Borràs. The series entitled Paràsits intends to catalog forms with apparent beauty that are surrounding and menacing us. Their invisibility is not only due to their microscopic dimensions, it's also because living together with them we share everydayness. Custom makes us assume them as known elements and therefore our immunity mechanisms don't react until they have already. The edition consists of five numbered copies and an artist's proof.

Gabinete Editions, Lisboa
Títle: Prayer book (Francis)
Author: Cristina Filipe

Gabinete showcases signed and numbered art multiples and editions, as well as artists books, by some of the most important Portuguese and International contemporary artists, such as Joseph Beuys, José Pedro Croft, António Dias, Ângela Ferreira, Fernanda Fragateiro, Ana Jotta, On Kawara, João Louro, Albuquerque Mendes, Jorge Molder, João Onofre, Jorge Queiroz, Julião Sarmento, Suzanne Themlitz, Francisco Tropa, among others.

Ghost Editions, Lisbon
Title: Productivity - Studio Rehearsals
Author: Ramiro Guerreiro

Productivity - Studio Rehearsals brings together a series of 7 sequences staged by Ramiro Guerreiro in his studio. The artist set up a photographic device with a timer, a simple and direct way of defining a spatial frame and a time of action. Dressed in a grey robe, the character evolves among paper, cloth, stairs and cardboard tubes, in the universe of the studio. And he carries out, with method and dedication, tasks whose purposes remain a mystery.

Gli Ori Srl, Pistoia
Title: Giorgio Morandi. El sentimiento de las cosas (english edition, 2019)
Author: Marilena Pasquali

A true catalogue raisonné of the work of one of the greatest masters of Italian painting of the 20th century, Giorgio Morandi. A fundamental update in which special attention is paid to the thematic and stylistic comparison between "new" and already known works in a general reorganisation of Morandi's Catalogue. The result of thirty years of work by Marilena Pasquali, the volume brings together in nine chapters the events that over sixty years have led to the definition of the artist's complex general catalogue and the publication of the 272 works - paintings, watercolours and drawings - admitted to the catalogue from 1985 to the present day.

The printed medium as a discursive space

In this video, Juan Naranjo, collector and gallery owner of Juan Naranjo Galería de Arte & Documentos, gives us a historical overview of the printed media as a space for artists' discourse. With examples that are part of his own collection, he shows us a spectrum of publications that range from the 19th century to the present day, and which we can read as true epochal representations of the styles, aesthetics and values of each historical moment.

News from the publishers participating in ArtsLibris ARCOlisboa Online Edition 2020

Gravuras no Brasil, São Paulo
Title: Alphabet
Author: Almandrade
The publication Alfabeto brings a series of ten prints created in 1973 by Brazilian artist Almandrade, which explores writing as visuality, concrete poetry and poem/process.

Hangar Books, Lisbon
Title: Memórias da plantação. Episódios de racismo quotidiano
Author: Grada Kilomba
Memórias da plantação is a compilation of daily episodes of racism, written in the form of short psychoanalytical stories. From the politics of space and exclusion to the politics of body and hair, including racial insults, Grada Kilomba abruptly dismantles the normality of racism, exposing the violence and trauma of being placed as Other. Originally published in English in 2008, Memórias da plantação became an important contribution to international academic discourse. An interdisciplinary work that combines postcolonial theory, whiteness studies, psychoanalysis, gender studies, black feminism and poetic narrative, it is an essential and innovative reflection for decolonial practices.

Holobionte Ediciones, Barcelona
Title: Cíborgs, zombis y quimeras: La cibercultura y las cibervanguardias
Author: VV.AA
Second volume dedicated to counter-cultural cyberculture, from Holobionte publishing house. Cíborgs, zombis y quimeras: La cibercultura y las cibervanguardias collects more than 29 international authors, creators and classic and new avant-garde groups. From Neuromante to the present day, including video art and net.art, the crazed collective CCRU, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Rosa Menkman's Glitch Manifesto, and fundamental theorists such as Katherine Hayles, Mark Fisher, Sadie Plant, Mark Dery or McKenzie Wark, among others.

Imago/Ymago, Lisbon
Title: Faces
Author: Hans Belting
"The most exciting surface on earth is the human face" - Lichtenberg's aphorism, which Belting personifies, sets the captivating and provocative tone of his research, from which the universal uniqueness of the human face over time is questioned. Wherever the image of man appears, the face beats as its central focus. However, the vitality of the face defies all attempts to define and fix it. The history of the face begins with the first masks of the Stone Age and culminates, in our time, with the digitally manufactured faces, in which its active enigma remains. In the ritual masks, in the faces of the actors, in the theatre and photography, but also in cinema and contemporary art, Belting explores with ingenuity and erudition the most diverse hypotheses that he could interpret, without deliberately giving the subject as closed, in the trace of Rembrandt, Picasso, Bacon, Molder and so many others.

Instantes Gráficos, Buenos Aires
Title: Silencios
Author: Stella Redruello
Nature mobilizes all her realizations, visually and tactilely she connects with different materials: vegetation, watercolor, sumie-e, fibers, lace threads, the handmade paper that she herself produces together with the word and the graphic trace (engraving) give as a result all her artist's books. Silencios was finished in 2018, entirely made by the artist, unique and handmade edition with handmade paper, embossing, watercolor and tarlatan. Here below we leave you a video of the director of Instantes Gráficos presenting this collective of artists.

Juan Naranjo, Barcelona
Title: Rafael Navarro, Fotografías 1975-2012
Author: Edited by Juan Naranjo Art Gallery & Documents
Rafael Navarro, Fotografías 1975-2012, published by Juan Naranjo Galería de Arte & Documentos in February 2020, is composed of a selection of photographs from some of his most important series, combined with lesser-known images that illustrate his interest in abstraction, a theme that has been very much present in his lines of experimentation from the beginning. The portfolio consists of 10 photographs of 40 x 50 cm, signed and numbered by the artist, of which an edition of 10 copies + 2 C.H.E has been made.

L’Arengario Studio Bibliográfico, Brescia
Title: Canzoniere futurista amoroso guerriero di Marinetti Farfa Acquaviva Giuntini
Author: VV.AA.
Cover illustrated with an aerograph by Osvaldo Peruzzi in the background and titles in orange, 1 original illustration with a line by Enrico Prampolini ("Creattività di Marinetti"), 1 parolibera board by Francesco Cangiullo, 14 musical pages by Ferrato, Fonario and Giuntini designed by Giovanni Acquaviva, Dall'Asta and Vercelli. First edition.

Librería El Astillero, Cantabria
Title: Ay, Patria Mía
Author: Juan Carlos Romero, Luis Pazos, Héctor Puppo, Horacio D'Alessandro (Grupo Escombros)
El Astillero began its trajectory in 1994. At present it has specialized in Contemporary Art Documents, mostly from Spain and Latin America, focusing mainly on the new artistic behaviours that are developing from the 60's onwards. Its collection consists of books, catalogues, posters, cards, photographs, manuscripts, pamphlets, artist's books and original works.

Loreley Books, São Paulo
Title: Rua Carlos Gomes, 130
Author: Maria Rosenberger
An artist's book produced from the experience as artist in residence at the CasaSETE collective studio, in São Bernardo do Campo-SP, from March 2009 to January 2020.

Louise Charles Tiar, Madrid
Title: Cielo
Editor Louis-Charles Tiar invited hundreds of Madrid residents to send in photos of the sky. Angela Losa and María Eugenia Serrano intervened in the images and exposed cyanotypes of them. The editor asked the same Madrilenians "What do you ask of heaven? Ruben Pujol wrote original sentences using the words of the answers. Oriol Miró wrote the text in calligraphy. La Eriza bound ten copies.

Meel Press, Lisboa
Title: Norte Sul Este Oeste / North Sounth East West
Author: Tomás Cunha Ferreira
The MeelPress studio was founded in 2013 by the artist and printmaker Hugo Amorim with the primary purpose of creating a collaborative space for contemporary artists, in the production and diffusion of print editions, as well as other cultural agents, curators and gallerists.

Metales Pesados, Santiago de Chile
Title: Sociología(s) del arte y de las políticas culturales
Author: Tomás Peters
The most relevant contribution of this book is the dialogue it establishes between the sociology of art and cultural policies. The confrontation between both would have constituted a virtuous circle from which emerged a sociological work that thinks the work of art "as a critical-cultural device that intervenes in the social and that is possible to productivize from the contemporary cultural policies", and that ends up synthesizing this search for new ways of thinking the social in cooperation with the critical labor of art.

Naranja Publicaciones, Santiago de Chile
Title: 8 poemas de Deisler
Author: Guillermo Deisler
8 poemas de Deisler by William Deisler is the first edition of a collection of poems that the artist kept in a mock-up state for nearly 50 years. Dated in 1970 in Antofagasta, 8 Poemas de Deisler was found in the Archive by his widow Laura Coll, who invited us to carry out this editorial project. The edition has 150 numbered copies.

No_Libros, Barcelona - São Paulo
Title: Louise Bourgeois y modos feministas de crear
Author: Gabriela Barzaghi De Laurentiis
When it seemed difficult, thus, to say something different about Bourgeois, Gabriela Barzaghi De Laurentiis surprises us with a poetic and original book; a book that dares to think outside the established framework. Like those Bourgeois cats she evokes in the last chapter of her essay, Barzaghi De Laurentiis ventures into an interpretative leap: in the face of a depoliticized gaze that closes the work off from possible meanings, confining it to the narrow hermeneutic framework of psychobiography, the author proposes a feminist and radically political approach to the French-American artist. It is not that she wants to ignore the undeniable autobiographical aspect of Bourgeois' work: she understands autobiography in a sense that goes far beyond the confessional, as a process of invention of self that is also an invention of new and unexpected models of the feminine. Below you will find a video of the author presenting her book.

ARCOlisboa 2019

Cordoaria Nacional
Avenida da Índia s/n

1300-342 Lisboa

16th - 17 th May 14 to 21h.
18th May 12 to 21h.
19th May 12 to 18h.

More information: http://www.ifema.es/arcolisboa_01/

55SP, São Paulo | Ad Hoc, Bilbao | Afrique in Visu, Paris | Artphilein Editions, Lugano | ArtsLibris, Barcelona | Atelier Concorde, Lisboa, www.atelierconcorde.org | Bonito Editorial, Bilbao | Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal | Captures Éditions, Valence | Carmen Alonso Libros, Santander | CENDEAC, Múrcia | Chucherías de Arte, Madrid | Danilo Montanari Editore, Ravena | E2, Barcelona | Alias, Cidade do México | Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona | Edizioni Corraini, Mãntua | Gabinete Editions, Lisboa | Ghost Editions, Lisboa | Hangar Books, Lisboa | Instantes Gráficos, Buenos Aires | Juan Naranjo Galería de Arte & Documentos, Barcelona | L’Arengario Studio Bibliografico, Gussago - Brescia | Librería El Astillero, Colindres – Cantábria | Livraria Madalena, São Paulo | Louis-Charles Tiar, Madrid | MeelPress, Lisboa | Naranja Librería & Editorial, Santiago de Chile | Per(r)ucho, Valencia | Photosai, Madrid | Pierre von Kleist Editions, Lisboa | Redfoxpress, Ilha de Achill – Irlanda | Rubén Barroso, Sevilha | RV Cultura e Arte, Salvador de Bahia | STET – Livros & fotografias, Lisboa | Textem Verlag, Hamburgo | Tinta Invisible, Barcelona,  | UQ! Editions, Lisboa

Sábado, 18.05.2019 | Pátio Nascente 

15.15 - 16h. “Ether / Vale tudo menos tia olhos: uma galeria inesquecível”

Com: António Júlio Duarte (photographer), Horacio Fernández (historian and curator), Susana Lourenço Marques (historian and publisher), Mariano Piçarra (historian and art critic).

17.15 - 18h. “Um debate sobre o fotolivro em Portugal”

Com: Horacio Fernández (historian and curator), Susana Lourenço Marques (historian and publisher), Jose Luis Neves (historian and art critic), Filipa Valladares (specialized bookseller).

Differences and complementarity of paper and digital in documentation  

In this video, Joan Gil Gregorio, historian, art critic and curator, talks about the importance of the document and its preservation to keep it alive. In this sense, far from seeing the digitization of recent years as something opposed to physical documents, Joan Gil Gregorio proposes to understand it as a complementary archiving process.

News from the publishers participating in ArtsLibris ARCOlisboa Online Edition

Per(r)ucho, Valencia
Title: Race to the moon
Author: Jaime Ortega
A laughing odyssey to the moon. We began this project intrigued by the graphic consequences of the space race. The incredible illustrations by Tekhnika Molodezhi in the Soviet Union and Popular Mechanics in the USA as well as an old 19th century astronomical manual called Smith Illustrated. The risographical translation of these graphic sources served as a trigger for the exploration of a story less known than it could be supposed, the obsession with the moon and, what is more interesting, the sudden abandonment, in the 70s, of an illusion that had been building a certain image of man since the 19th century.

PEZPLATA, Madrid
Title: Caminando memoria y deseo
Author: Laura Lio
Single book. Traces of silver ink, black paper and wooden cover. Pezplata Ediciones is a publisher of artist's books created in 2015, based at the NavEstudio Laura Lio. Its editorial line is drawn on the edge between image and word and is characterized by its diversity of formats, with publications ranging from artist's books to posters and postcards.

Pierre Von Kleist, Lisboa
Title: Café Bissau
Author: Julião Sarmento
Julião Sarmento has been taking photographs for more than forty years. From early on, his technical and lyrical control of the medium allowed him to develop a personal style. His photographs cover a wide variety of interests: people, places, gatherings, travels, animals in or out of  zoos, cars, experiments on light...Café Bissau is Julião Sarmento's most ambitious photobook to date, an ambitious journey into the artist's atlas.

Pierrot Le Fou, Porto
Title: Burning dinosaur bones
Author: Pedro Magalhães
 "(...) In this series, the elimination of the figurative and the dissipation of the referent, goes against a conceptualization of the surface, tested in an adjacent plane, where the painting appears tired, without brightness and without depth - to emphasize the abstraction and to reinvent the unique spatiality created by this machine. By burning the dinosaur bones we can intuit other images and obsessions, such as the crashed cars photographed by Mateo Pérez Correa in Siniestros (2015), the (un)inhabited car interiors of Mateo Casteel, the badly repaired cars (2016) of Ronny Campana, or in Karma (2014) about privacy that Oscar Monzón interrupted and illuminated, for five years, at the traffic lights of Madrid. In all of them, the vehicle that Roland Barthes compared to a great Gothic cathedral no longer represents the conquest of speed or gives shape to acceleration, is neither a fetish object nor a symbol of the counterculture, but surrenders to the paradox of immobility that photography has imposed on it, monumentalizing the reflection of its consumption, valuing its uniqueness instead of equivalence and recording what remains after the glory. (...)" Susana Lourenço Marques, 2019

Raíña Lupa/RocioSantaCruz, Barcelona
Title: Frágil es la llama
Author: Francesc Torres
"You're already on the other side of the image, you've already pierced the negative and, quicksilver intact, the mirror of your life reflects nothing but the absence of yourself." Unpublished text and three photographs by Francesc Torres, composed by hand in Bodoni lead typography, by the MGC Group of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, on 250 gr. Black and white baryta-insulated photographs.

Red Fox Press, Ilha de Achill - Irlanda
Title: Franticham's Assembling Box Nr. 45 / Visual Poetry And Works Inspired By Fluxus
Author: AA.VV.
Red Fox Press produces artist's books production and art screenprinting in Achill Island in the West of Ireland. A5 box with contributions from 25 invited artists from 9 countries. Visual poetry, collages, prints, multiples and objects. 40 copies signed and numbered

Roser Sales Noguera, Barcelona
Title: ICE-LAND
Author: Roser Sales Noguera
The artist's book presented this year is ICE-LAND, this is the result of a trip to Iceland in the year 2018. Following a recurrent way in my work, to travel, collect and find objects such as stones, algae, pieces of lava, feathers ... that they are finding me in the treks along the island. It is through these objects, which as a trigger take me to the moments, places and emotions of the road. ICE-LAND is presented in the same format as previous years, a wooden box containing the artist's book, in this case photographed with his texts.

Rubén Barroso, Sevilla
Title: Anarchy
Author: Rubén Barroso
Anarchy is part of a collection of artist's books, unique pieces, drawn, about ways of life and vital attitudes, qualified as "objects of thought". Unique piece, drawn artist's book, 50 pages on 300 gr. cotton paper.

RV Cultura e Arte, Salvador de Bahia
Title: Marear
Author: Taygoara Aguiar
Marear is an affective cartography composed of images of fishing boats and routes of the ports of Plataforma, Solar do Unhão, Barra and Ilha de Maré, located in All Saints Bay, in Salvador/BA (Brazil). Its structure of wood and special papers, at the same time is and houses boats and cyanotypes on cotton paper, inviting the invention of possible narratives and stories of the fiber or wood boats, saveiros and trawlers that make up the landscape of much of the city's coast, while representing intimate spaces of the emotional memories built by the artist Taygoara Aguiar. The graphic project begins with photographs of the ships, their respective names and locations, a three-dimensional graphic investigation expressed in the textures, tones and typographies present in the registered ships themselves.

STET Libros & Fotografías, Lisboa
Title: Handbook of the Spontaneous Other
Author: Aikaterini Gegisian
In Handbook of the Spontaneous Other, Aikaterini Gegisian brings together a diverse range of found photographic material produced in Western Europe and the USA during the 1960s and 1970s. Composed of a series of 59 collages, the book playfully recontextualises images from popular culture that Gegisian has sourced — from pornographic magazines, tourist catalogues and National Geographic spreads — in order to subvert the way that the body, nature and pleasure have been represented in Western capitalist fantasies. Divided into nine chapters that follow a metaphysical narrative of colour and sensation, the book ultimately seeks to locate a ‘spontaneous other’; a notion of the self and of pleasure that exists beyond the confines of popular culture and its dominant modes of representation.

Textem Verlag, Hamburgo
Title: Album
Author: Achim Hoops
49 large-format digital drawings based on motifs from TV news, as well as a brochure with an essay by the artist. When it comes to television news, it is striking how much the images shown are always similar, even though they deal with current and unique events. This similarity was unintentionally or deliberately provoked by aesthetic means. As "only" visual constellations, the images can be made similar to each other, even if the objects represented in them are very different. As in a dream, the properties and meanings of various objects are combined in our arsenal of remembered images.

Tinta Invisible Edicions, Barcelona
Title: Filigranas y Mamporros
Author: Carlos Pazos
Tinta Invisible has just released a deluxe edition of 30 copies of Filigranas y Mamporros by Carlos Pazos, with a felt shirt. It is a "diary" structured by the author's thoughts, which with a similar tone to his two previous works, immerses us in the evolution of his own existence. This story, marked by brilliant speculation, guides us through an infinite number of theories about art, time, style and life. Even the most cowardly of us would like to adopt (sometimes) as a vital mantra some of his reflections since, always with elegance, he seems to verbally caress the darkest aspects of being. And in his own words "opting for cynicism and irony rather than bowing down, forced by the harsh joke of the world's inflexible deception. Mercis Rossetti

Tristan Barbará, Barcelona
Title: Notas para el final de un siglo…
Author: Jose Ney
The book shows the author's interest in human beings. People immersed in everyday life, in public spaces and their unconscious relationship with the environment. Seeking in spontaneity the anthropological value as a reflection of those visual experiences that can evoke a dreamlike or irrational appreciation, without losing the interpretation of the supposed reality. With the visual narrative, the author refers to everything: the world and its inhabitants, their illusions, their sadness, beliefs and love; in an instant of hallucinations in convergence with our imaginary spaces.

UQ! Editions, Lisboa
Title: Gramática do Instante e do Infinito
Author: José Eduardo Agualusa
A book more than a book. A real work of art. In fact, the first one with original photographs of José Eduardo Agualusa and his poetry. A limited edition, 116 copies, in which each book-object is a masterpiece of graphic art: all printed in Fine Art with the text on bamboo paper and the photographs on rice paper, finishing off the mark of UQ's artisan excellence! Editions. Format 37 x 52 cm. Each copy sold will have 30% of the income reverted to the Pykoré Indigenous Association of the Mebêngôkre-Kayapó people of the Amazon. Here below we leave you a video of the author presenting his book.

Value Manifesto, Basel
The Value Manifesto is the first crypto multiple in the history of art. The symbolic bearer of the manifesto is a manufactured display with state-of-the-art nixie tubes and IoT technology. Those machines’ only purpose is to display the currently highest real-time value of the crypto edition in Swiss Francs.