arnaud maggs

Arnaud Maggs 1926-2012

gem cutting and sphere collecting

Gem Cutting Shop Helps: The Best Selected from 17 Years of The Lapidary Journal, edited by Hugh Leiper, F.G.A., Lapidary Journal, 1964

Herbert Vogel

Herbert Vogel 1922-2012

Envoi esperluette Réponse

exhibition/book launch
Michael Dumontier & Micah Lexier: Call Ampersand Response
Artexte, Montreal
June 7 - September 8, 2012

Call Ampersand Response is a collaborative artwork made of images exchanged via email. Over a period of several months, Dumontier and Lexier sustained an image-based correspondence by sending each other scans of book covers, found objects, drawings and illustrations belonging to each artist's respective collection. The project is based on the idea that their collections speak of their shared artistic affinities while informing their practices. Two rules dictated their conduct: each image was to function as a "call" seeking a "response" from the other artist, and the dialogue was to end when an image recalling the project's opening image emerged, thereby constituting a narrative loop. Their conversation gave rise to a bookwork co-edited by Nieves (Zurich) and Artexte. In Artexte's new gallery space, the project is shown as an installation in which shared themes and motifs are seen to play out over time, alongside objects selected from the source material.

Call Ampersand Response
196 pp. (including covers), 196 b&w illus.,
25.5 x 19.5 cm. Co-published by
Nieves and Artexte.
ISBN 978-3-905999-08-2

RAY GUN

The Mouse Museum / The Ray Gun Wing: Two Collections/Two Museums by Claes Oldenburg, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1978

In Oldenburg's words, "the Ray Gun stands for vision, the power of 'seeing through walls,' i.e. the artist's supposed capacity to discover reality. The slogan connected with it is: 'Annihilate, illuminate,' or to be transformed by revelation, knowledge. The Ray Gun Wing is a celebration of the right angle form... -from the introduction by Judith Russi Kirshner

Jerry Twomey

2 more photos of Jerry Twomey's Inuit art collection, in his home (1972 and 1971).

from The Jerry Twomey Collection, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2003

original 1972 WAG publication here.

Golden

an incomplete collection of Golden Guides, Golden Press 1950-1989

THE MONKEY'S PAW

A small selection of the books I'd like to have (or at least see inside) from The Monkey's Paw bookshop/Remote Window Display blog.

Their books are only available in-store, another reason I should visit Toronto more often.

Selections from The Twomey Collection, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1972 (12 pages, staple bound)

Jerry Twomey was a botanist and geneticist who collected over 4000 pieces of Inuit sculpture in 20 years, beginning 1950. His collection was acquired by the Province of Manitoba and is housed in The Winnipeg Art Gallery.

ghost month

Photographs from William Eakin's Ghost Month series, 2003-2004

(These objects are constructed as religious offerings to be burned during a buddhist ancestor festival called Ghost Month. More here)