Thinking back to the last summer where all we can hear was Gloria's bells + sound of nature 🔔🍃🎐
“My functional art is a manifestation of balancing my interior world with my exterior one. Trained as a sculptor, I strive for harmony through dissonance. My work has always been the playground in which I try to unify all parts of myself.” – Gloria Kisch, 1990, Art et Industrie
Last week to see "As She Left It: from Gloria Kisch’s Studio". Open on Friday & Saturday 1-6pm at 32A Cooper square.
#gloriakisch#sculpture#metal#metalsculpture#bells#harmony
Call for Vintage Linoleum Floors!
Our dear friend and a long-time collaborator @billmillerart is always on the look out for vintage linoleum floors from the 1900-1950s era to use in artwork.
Many of you have seen his brilliant collage works from our past exhibitions: In This House I Call Home (2020) and In the Garden (2021).
Miller cuts and arranges vintage linoleum to explore the work of memory and how representation conditions our personal and collective consciousnesses. Using images taken from his own life, pop culture, and art—such as van Gogh’s Bedroom in Arles—Miller transmutes found linoleum into a witness and teller of history.
Please DM @billmillerart with a photo to identify the era of the flooring. He will arrange a pick up or pay for shipping and removal if needed.
Thank you all very much in advance 🙏
Photo 1: Self Portrait with Rickie, 2013
Photo 2: View from Miller’s Studio
Photo 3: Starry Night, 2019
Photo 4: Black Mountain Morning Coffee, 2021
#billmillerart#vintagelinoleum#collage#recycledart#foundobjectart
Instant Diary is a quasi-mechanical experiment where Komatsu recorded each day of 2020 with a Polaroid photograph and a short note. With its enigmatic presence, Komatsu questions the concept of a diary whether single photograph and a text could truly reflect one’s day.
Instant Diary (with original Polaroid set in an index card box)
Hiroko Komatsu
Book: 6 x 4.25 x 2.25 inch
Box of prints: 14.5 x 5.5 x 4.25 inch
Edition 1
Available from link in bio ⬆️ DM for viewing.
#hirokokomatsu#artistbook#japanesephotography#polaroid#diary#recordoftheday
“I like to make my artist book based on something that already exists, rather than creating from zero. By altering the existing materials with my own photographs and drawings, I’m able to deconstruct the original meaning and apply another context. This process is similar to photography.” –Osamu Kanemura
Bird Talk
Osamu Kanemura
11 x 8 inch
Edition 1
Available from link in bio ⬆️ DM for private viewing.
#osamukanemura#japanesephotography#artistbook#collage
“The peculiar form of this book reminisces the concepts of Claude Levi-Strauss’s ‘Bricolage’ and Jacques Derrida’s ‘Grafting’. The Polaroid photographs taken by Kanemura are ‘grafted’ into a chopped and folded Bauhaus book, becoming ‘parasites’ that nourish from the existing book, as we call it a ‘host’” –Gen Umezu
Material Bricolage 4
Osamu Kanemura
5.75 x 4.25 x 2 inch
Edition 1
Available from link in bio ⬆️ DM for private viewing.
#osamukanemura#genumezu#artistbook#japanesephotography#collage#bricolage#bauhaus
Black Book No.1 is a result of Komatsu cutting out all the words from No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg. By dismantling the text and replacing into the bottle, Komatsu attempts to see the unimproved environmental issue from a different point of view.
Black Book No.1
Hiroko Komatsu
6.5 x 4.5 inch (book)
5.5 x 3 x 3 inch (bottle)
Edition 1
Photo 5: View from Komatsu’s working desk
Available from link in bio ⬆️ DM for private viewing.
#hirokokomatsu#gretathunberg#artistbook#environmentalawareness
Please join us on Sunday, May 22 at 5-6pm for #icpphotobookfest where Andrea Stern will be signing her book Dog Days.
Dog Days is uncompromisingly honest and poetic look at a period of her life, long ended. Dredging her photography archives, Stern discovers a store of past observations in a new light.
Edited by Joan Liftin
Published by @bookdummypress
96 pages
10.5 x 8.5 inch
Hard cover in silk screened carton slipcase
Printed and bound in Japan
#blackandwhitephotography#photobook
Location: ICP - International Center of Photography
Komatsu’s handmade books are the result of her painstaking labor and dedication to the tactile and the physical print. Using images of construction sites and waste materials as her subjects, Komatsu creates a space that confuses the line between construction and destruction.
Corrosion 3
Hiroko Komatsu
8.5 x 6 inch
24 pages
b&w printed on tracing paper
Edition 20
Photo 1-4: Corrosion 3
Photo 5: View from Komatsu’s process of making photogram prints for the cover (photo courtesy of the artist)
Join us for a 2-day pop-up viewing room of Osamu Kanemura and Hiroko Komatsu’s Artists’ Books in conjunction with AIPAD and New York Art Week.
Friday, May 20, 1-8pm
(Reception 6-8pm)
Saturday, May 21, 1-6pm
#hirokokomatsu#japanesephotography#blackandwhitephotography#artistbook#photogram
A claustrophobic feeling emerges from Kanemura's collages and artist books, where photographs, texts, and printed matter propagated from the repository of materials that surrounds our daily lives are dismantled and rebuilt, creating a disorienting and endless loop of images.
Cannibalism Sugar Diet
Osamu Kanemura
13.5 x 10.5 x 2.5 inch
Edition 1
Join us for a 2-day pop-up viewing room of Osamu Kanemura and Hiroko Komatsu’s Artists’ Books in conjunction with AIPAD and New York Art Week.
Friday, May 20, 1-8pm
(Reception 6-8pm)
Saturday, May 21, 1-6pm
#osamukanemura#japanesephotography#artistbook#collage
We didn’t know what to think of it when @osamukanemura first showed us Bird Study, except for the fact that we couldn’t stop flipping the pages to find his mesmerizing intuition in every detail. This was the first of many artist books Kanemura created for his solo exhibition “Looper Syndicate” at dieFirma in 2021.
Bird Study
Osamu Kanemura
8.5 x 6 x 5 inch
Edition 1
Join us for a 2-day pop-up viewing room of Osamu Kanemura and Hiroko Komatsu’s Artists’ Books in conjunction with AIPAD and New York Art Week.
Friday, May 20, 1-8pm
(Reception 6-8pm)
Saturday, May 21, 1-6pm
#osamukanemura#japanesephotography#artistbook#collage#doodle
Book No.1 is the very first artist book @komatsu_hiroko hand-made in 2016. It consists of 40 b&w gelatin silver prints, bound with tape, wire and galvanized turnbuckle–materials that are used in her renown large scale installation.
Book No.1
Hiroko Komatsu
12 x 11 inch
40 plates, b&w
Edition 5
Photo 1-4: Book No.1
Photo 5,6: View from Komatsu’s solo exhibition “Sincerity Department Loyal Division” at dieFirma 2021.
Join us for a 2-day pop-up viewing room of Osamu Kanemura and Hiroko Komatsu’s Artists’ Books in conjunction with AIPAD and New York Art Week.
Friday, May 20, 1-8pm
(Reception 6-8pm)
Saturday, May 21, 1-6pm
#hirokokomatsu#japanesephotography#blackandwhitephotography#artistbook