Sunday 12 May 2013

Press and Release and Other Exhibitions

We visited the Press and Release exhibition at Phoenix Gallery. It is an exhibition of artists' book and turned out to be one of the best shows I have seen at Phoenix.  It is really worth a visit, the show continues until the 9th June.

Here are few images of the books that caught my eye.


 Jonny Hannah
Booklyn Artists Alliance  
Inside shot of the fabric book "Composition"
Borbonesa

Deborah Boardman

 My favourite book of the whole exhibition was "The Octopus Would Like To Put A Stop To Us" by Otto Dettmer (below).  I love the humorous narrative, the bold colour and how it has been made.
Otto Dettmer
Spread of "The Octopus Would Like To Put A Stop To Us" by Otto Dettmer
Spread of "The Octopus Would Like To Put A Stop To Us" by Otto Dettmer
Otto Dettmer
Otto Dettmer 

These painted boxes by John Bently (below) were also really interesting. Each box has been made to look like a book with a face painted on the front and inside a descriptive note about the person.

John Bently
John Bently
John Bently


We also had a look at The Air Itself One Vast Library by Mariele Neudecker which is at Lighthouse and The Blue Route, a show by Kaarina Kaikkonen at Fabrica (below).

Kaarina Kaikkonen

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