Christophe Cherix

Over the past two decades, geopolitical borders have shifted and new technologies have forged channels of communication around the world. The Western art world has become part of a much broader field, opening itself to new continents and allowing for a significant crosspollination of post-Conceptual strategies and vernacular modes. Printed materials, in both innovative and traditional forms, have played a key role in the exchange of ideas and sources.

Print/Out, published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, examines the evolution of artistic practices related to printmaking, from a recent resurgence of traditional printing techniques—often used alongside digital technologies—to the proliferation of self-published artists' projects.… (más)

Published in conjunction with a 2000 French Museum exhibition, this lovely little volume limited to eight hundred copies reprints in facsimile wry Los Angeles based Conceptualist Allen Ruppersberg's artist's books "23 Pieces", "24 Pieces", and "25 Pieces" along with two new essays on this body of work by Liam Gillick and Christophe Cherix. The first two titles were originally self-published by Ruppersberg's Sunday Quality in 1969 and 1970, while "25 Pieces" - though conceived in 1970 - is issued here for the first time from the artist's surviving vintage maquette.… (más)