Artist's Books (page 2)

Dimitri Alithinos
Poems Lo-Logos Sound Sound, 1976
(Poems 1971-1975)
White pages bound in a volume with a white cover and raised typeface, containing a tape sunk amid the leaves with the artist’s phonemes and phonetic poems read by himself; 20x12.5x1.5cm thick.

Nikos Zouboulis & Titsa Grekou
Action-Reminiscence-Transpositions, 1980
A latex cover mounted on a wooden frame containing the single copy of a handmade book with text, photographs and a pencil drawing on glossy paper, incorporated in a structure made of film, Plexiglas and painted latex; height 43x34x5cm
The title of the book-object Action-Reminiscence-Transpositions comes from a performance they had presented at the Desmos Art Gallery in 1980, carrying on their work bodily expression combined with multiple media (music, construction, latex specially processed by N. Zouboulis into a sturdy enough form for their purposes, sound and light effects, etc.), through which they had developed in Greece since 1972 the idea of the co-operation of the arts and collective work.

Takis
Antigravity Book, 1983
(signed and numbered, Takis I),1983
évocation des sculptures magnétiques de Takis photographiées par N. Bichajian, B. Hatala, A. Morain, H. Schmitt et comportant un dessin inédit de l’artiste, à été achevé de façonner le 6 Septembre 1983 à la Papeterie Chaponnoise pour le compte des éditions Area, avec le concours de l’Atélier d’Annay-Jacomet pour le pochoir, de l’Atélier Marquet pour la serigraphie, de l’Imprimerie Union pour le tirage offset, ed de NSRG pour la photogravure. De cette édition originale il à été tiré 150 exemplaires: 100 numerotés de 1 a 100, 25 numerotés de I a XXV et 25 de A a Y, reservès au collaborateurs et amis; box 22x17cm, book 21x16.2cm. Private Collection

Dimitris Condos

Roman Pictural, 1967
The first, unnumbered edition was made by the artist himself. In 1991 it was republished with the addition of a separate volume with five texts by N. Lloizidi, E. Mavrommatis, G. Papagounos. M. Papanikolaou and Th. Tzavaras; Paratiritis, Thessaloniki 1991. Private Collection.

Kalender, 1971
5.500 sheets, 35x60x60cm, all printed with the same composition in spiral writing. The work was made "to disappear by removing one sheet every day, just like a wall-mounted calendar" (D. Condos). Private Collection.

Yannis Dimitrakis
Manuscripts, 1986
Illustrated edition with text by Y. Dimitrakis, Yakinthos 1986, on European Velvet120gr. paper, 821 numbered copies, 14x10cm.

Dimitris Tragas
The Story of a Quadrangle, 2000
drawings by D. Tragas, text by Alexis Bakopoulos, Professor of Mathematics at the Athens Technical University, Patakis Publications, © Dimitris Tragas, Athens 2000
The edition comprises part of the artist’s numerous drawings-poems which span the years 1990-2000. They constitute self-standing works as well as a starting point for exploring the use of visual language as writing in space, by which "any kind of form divides [the notion of the work] into existence and space", thus alluding to Pascal’s idea that "space is a sphere whose centre is everywhere and its periphery nowhere" (excerpts from D. Tragas’s Notebooks, 1990-2000).


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