Le Prix Jean Lurçat 2011 a été décerné le 28 octobre 2011 à : 88 Maps, de Matt Mullican aux Éditions Three Star Books. Ouvrage exceptionnel à bien des aspects, 88 Maps regroupe 36 planches proposant une vue d’ensemble de plus de 40 ans de recherches artistiques de l’artiste américain Matt Mullican. Grâce à un système de classification propre établi dans cet ouvrage à travers une série limitée de couleurs représentatives – rouge, bleu, jaune et vert –, il élabore un véritable modèle de cosmologie toute personnelle, usant de pictogrammes. L’artiste imagine des villes et des contes universels qui simulent les phénomènes de la nature ou les mystères de l’être humain.
Le Prix Jean Lurçat est un prix de bibliophilie créé en 2005 à l’initiative de Madame Simone Lurçat, à la mémoire de son époux, membre de la section de peinture de l’Académie des beaux-arts, qui a pratiqué l’art de la bibliophilie. Il est doté d’un montant de 7.000 € et récompense chaque année un peintre ou un graveur ayant illustré un ouvrage original récent de bibliophilie. Il s’agit du seul Grand Prix de bibliophilie en France.

Check 88 MAPS by Matt Mullican at Three Star Books here.

Photo: © Juliette Agnel

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All of the above

18 october – 31 december 2011 As a way of mapping the artist’s brain, desires, and influences, offering carte blanche to an artist provides the opportunity to approach the creative process and the forging of aesthetic links from a novel angle. ALL OF THE ABOVE is the rerun in reverse of “none of the above”, an idiomatic expression, and the title of an earlier curatorship of an exhibition by the artist at the Swiss Institute in New York in 2004. Each of the works was distinguished by its extremely small size, or even its immaterial nature. From NONE OF THE ABOVE to ALL OF THE ABOVE, invisibility gives way to photogenic quality. As the Palais de Tokyo is involved in building work throughout 2011, artists are being invited to devise an exhibition in the former auditorium, transformed in turn into a building site, a theater and a scientific laboratory. Each of them had used a platform which was first architectural, then theatrical, then scientific. John M Armleder in his turn has decided to use this platform in the manner of a stage and invites around 20 artists to present a work. Whatever the nature of the works (painting, sculpture, video), placed on this stage they are subject to a frontal viewpoint and a visual superimposition making the whole effect oscillate between chaotic entanglements, groundbreaking meetings, and mixtures of genres. ALL OF THE ABOVE overturns a logic that Marc-Olivier Wahler deliberately initiated at the Palais de Tokyo which in the course of his program scheduling has taken us from the super-visible to disappearance, by way of stealthiness. The arrangement of this project likewise bulldozes the very foundations of exhibiting, namely the moving body and the unmoving eye: which only goes to prove that only John M Armleder was a suitable candidate to bring the cycle 2006-2011 to a close – completing the circle.
From the press release.

Check John Armleder’s projects at onestar press here.

French publishers onestar press and Three Star Books, Paris have been invited by Galerie Perrotin to showcase a selection of artist’s books, bookshelves and unique projects. This special temporary exhibition will take place at Galerie Perrotin (Turenne showroom), 76 rue de Turenne, 75003 Paris, France. Visiting hours are 11:00 to 19:00 from Tuesday to Saturday.
onestar press A series of bookshelves, print portfolios and projects by artists will be featured, along with the core production of artists’ books by Tim Maul, Nathan Carter, Dzine, Daniel Gordon, Tobias Rehberger, Annika Ström, Lawrence Weiner and many others.
Three Star Books Three Star Books will present artist’s books and special projects which challenge the parameters of artist’s book publishing. Productions include a large work on canvas, passport and a lamp. Presentation includes works by Maurizio Cattelan, Jonathan Monk, Olivier Mosset, Matt Mullican, Simon Starling, Lawrence Weiner and Heimo Zobernig.

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Thank you to Dutch artists Marius Lut and Tineke Van Veen for building our books and multiple stand for Crossing Border Festival

onestar press was cordially invited by Tineke Van Veen and Stroom Den Haag to present their international collection of artist’s books and had the opportunity to introduce three new titles and multiples of Dutch artists from The Hague as well.

Check out the titles by artists: Marius Lut, Navid Nuur and Magali Reus.

Photos by Darlene Lin