Umfang:
3 Bände (circa 500 Blätter)
,
42 cm
Inhalt:
"In 2012 Cyprien Gaillard went on a trip to Sri Lanka and visited the city of Kandy located at the geographical center of the country. Kandy is also where the artist printed a few copies of an artist book: NIGHTLIFE ... As Gaillard was wandering through the streets of Kandy, the artist noticed the delicate quality of the paper used for the posters that saturate the city walls. Most street posters in Sri Lanka are printed on a thin 50 grams paper. After tearing a fragment of a poster off a wall as a paper sample, Cyprien Gaillard entered the first print shop he found and asked if they could make him a large book of his night photos (a project the artist had initiated a few years earlier) and bind the volume according to their local standards ... The combination of the intense black and white photos, the use of thin poster paper, the waxy effect from the laser printing on the coated paper surface, the white random fractures on the pages, and ultimately the cracking sound created by the bound sheets as the pages were turned produced an effect that seduced Gaillard immediately. On the original cover, which was designed together with the printer, Gaillard mentioned a press name he had created for that occasion in order to give “NIGHTLIFE” a provenance: the “ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS PRESS - PERADENIYA SRI LANKA”. The few copies of the original “NIGHTLIFE”, were distributed by the artist among his friends and seven years later, Three Star Books is happy to propose a new and augmented version. ... When Cyprien Gaillard came to visit Three Star Books in Paris in 2019, we concluded that the only way to get the same feel and aspect as the original book was to print 2019 “NIGHTLIFE” again in Sri Lanka. As the artist did not recall where he printed the original book and in order to keep a low carbon trace, we decided to locate printers in Kandy using Google maps and street view. After a few days of unfruitful searches and a lack of answers from local Kandy printers, one company finally answered us using WhatsApp ... We had to explain to the new printer our desire to print in Sri Lanka in order to keep the original book quality, get the printer to locate the paper we were looking for, the type of printing and binding etc..."--Three Star Press website
Anmerkung:
100 copies, signed and numbered. 3 volumes in a slipcase in a slipcase. Black and white laser printing on 50 gsm poster paper. The slipcase is silkscreened with transparent varnish, edition statement and artist's signature inside slipcase
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Clark Art Institute: copy 39/100
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Erscheinungsjahr vom Label im Schuber übernommen
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Title page and cover also in Sinhalese
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Bildband
;
Künstlerbuch
Mehr zum Autor:
Gaillard, Cyprien 1980-
