The Infinite Library:
Books 1–50
Daniel Gustav Cramer and Haris Epaminonda
Published by New Documents, Los Angeles & Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, 2022, 228 pp. + 22 loose inserts (colour & b/w ill.), 24 × 33 cm, English/German
Price: €55

Begun in 2007 by artists Daniel Gustav Cramer and Haris Epaminonda, The Infinite Library is composed of an archive of over 100 books made through the recombination of pages from one or more found publications. Each book is dismantled, modified, and reorganized. Pictures and pages—momentarily out of order—are brought together to shape yet another whole. The concept for each new volume develops gradually, starting from the content of the original book and the associations that unfold in the process of making.

This publication fully catalogues the first 50 books in the series, and contains over 1600 photographic illustrations, 20 color inserted sheets, and a contextualizing essay by writer Brian Dillon.

#2022 #danielgustavcramer #harisepaminonda #newdocuments
Cesariana: série roupa - corpa - roupa, 1967 (Card)
Lygia Clark
Published by documenta X, Kassel, 1997, card (colour & b/w ill.), 10.8 × 15.2 cm, English
Price: €15

Produced on the occasion of documenta X, 21 June – 28 September, 1997, Kassel, Germany.

Lygia Clark, was a Brazilian artist best known for her painting and installation work. She was often associated with the Brazilian Constructivist movements of the mid-20th century and the Tropicalia movement. Along with Brazilian artists Amilcar de Castro, Franz Weissmann, Lygia Pape and poet Ferreira Gullar, Clark co-founded the Neo-Concrete movement. From 1960 on, Clark discovered ways for viewers (who would later be referred to as “participants”) to interact with her art works. Clark’s work dealt with the relationship between inside and outside, and, ultimately, between self and world.

#1997 #documenta #ephemera #invitecard #lygiaclark
Dreaming Alcestis
Beatrice Gibson
Published by Lenz Press, Milan, 2024, 56 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 13 × 21 cm, English/Italian
Price: €18

Dreaming Alcestis is an artist’s book by artist and filmmaker Beatrice Gibson, conceived as an accompaniment to her holographic film installation of the same name. Dreaming Alcestis was co-directed and co-scripted by Gibson, her partner Nicholas Gordon and critic Maria Nadotti. The publication features a specially commissioned essay by poet and translator Allison Grimaldi Donahue, as well as a reprint of the American poet Alice Notley’s 1991 essay What Can Be Learned From Dreams? Designed by HIT.

#alicenotley #beatricegibson #hit #lenzpress
Aernout Mik - Willem Oorebeek
Published by Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1997, 144 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 19.5 × 27 cm, English/Italian/Dutch
Price: €18

Produced on the occasion of the Dutch Pavilion at the 47th Venice Biennale.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#1997 #aernoutmik #willemoorebeek
OBSTAKLES
Willem Oorebeek
Published by Roma Publications, Amsterdam, 2025, 304 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 24 × 34 cm, English
Price: €40

Produced on the occasion of Oorebeek’s major survey exhibition at WIELS in Brussels, this richly illustrated book presents re-readings of fifty years’ work and the materiality of production. These are numbered according to recollection, organised under headings, and translated from Dutch to English. The translations are coloured by two years of conversation with editor/designer Will Holder—accounting for ambiguity, rabbit-holes, and an [un]conscious preference for “quasi-” “ofschoon…” “enzovoort.” Repetition, alliteration, and other material, musical and metric devices are placed on the page, quite intentionally, designed “an sich” to facilitate memory and recall; complementing the book’s many scale details of work itself.

#2025 #romapublications #wiels #willholder #willemoorebeek
L'Ineffable – A propos de l'œuvre de Ryman
Daniel Buren
Published by Editions Jannink, Paris, 1999, 32 pp., 13.5 × 23 cm, English/French
Price: €12

Daniel Buren writes on his friend Robert Ryman to highlight some questions raised by his oeuvre and by his own work.

Co-founder of the BMTP group, Daniel Buren (born 1939 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France) is a major figure on the international art scene. He made a name for himself on the art scene in the 1960s. In 1965, Daniel Buren settled into an approach based on a striped canvas with alternating white and coloured, 8,7 cm‑wide stripes. The introduction in late 1967 of what he called a “visual tool” laid the foundations for a practice that broke with tradition and opened up a multifaceted body of work in which freedom was born, as the artist likes to point out, out of both internal and external constraints. Daniel Buren explored this “visual tool” by developing it on a flat surface and, from the end of the 1960s, in three dimensions.

#1999 #danielburen #robertryman