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french/english, 96 pages, 17 x 24 cm, co-edition Silvana Editoriale, Milan, 2007 EAN: 978 291 08 50 – 46 – 0 15,00 euros
The famous architectural theorist Yona Friedman explains in the preface to this splendid work his love for unicorns - because they do not exist, because, they are female and because they are mute. It is not a book about everything that can happen to a unicorn throughout its life which lasts several thousand years. Yona Friedman is not aware of all its adventures.
Here, drawings and texts accompany the extraordinary journey of Yona Friedman, with his friend Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, photographer and video artist, from Paris where he lives, to the île de Vassivière and ending in Venice.
Victor Man, attebasile, artist book, 96 pages, 20 x 28cm, co-edition Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière / Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 2009, EAN 978190486446220,00 euros
At the glance of his works which associate all-assorted elements and varied artistic disciplines, the artist book attebasile, conceived by Victor Man, assembles photocopies of texts, images of archives, reproductions of works and views of exhibition, which allow in the course of pages and various juxtapositions, sudden narrative constructions, precious for the artist. Even if an iconoclastic atmosphere smooths on the work where desire and violence become entangled, the reading of its assemblies remains open and confers to the book a surprising variation of its whole current production.
Published on the occasion of the exhibitions of the Ikon Gallery of Birmingham from November 26th, 2008 till January 25th, 2009 and the Centre i nternational d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière, France, from February 14th till June 7th, 2009.
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