publication revue

publication is an annual review about artists’ books and publications. Bilingual French/English, it is the first volume of a multidisciplinary project aiming to give artists’ editions a “public” status, open, accessible to all and for the use of all. WHAT IS IT EXACTLY? Providing a new platform for discussion, reflection and creation to the many actors who make publishing an artistic practice. It also deals more widely with any other forms of books related to the art field. publication brings together artists, publishers, gallery owners, academics, printers, bookbinders, booksellers, distributors… as personalities with diverse practices and intentions, all serving a common context. publication it’s interviews and talks, but also book presentations that give a close look at editorial projects. Considering the book as an alternative space of expression and exhibition, each issue offers carte blanche to young and more established artists who have the opportunity to show their work through pages entirely dedicated to their project. publication brings together many international personalities involved in the publishing world, they reveal their careers and share the various aspects of their practice. WAIT, WHAT IS AN ARTIST’S BOOK? “Artists’ books and publications are characterized by a search for congruence between editorial formulation and artistic intent. They are not books about art (art books, artists’ writings, exhibition catalogues, etc.), but are themselves an art object, as well as the results of production methods that are common to most printed matter we encounter everyday, from our office environments to bookstores and libraries. ” Excerpt from the opening text of publication revue n° 1, written by Jérôme Dupeyrat (contemporary art history teacher, art critic, curator, and PhD thesis author of Les Livres d’artistes entre pratiques alternatives à l’exposition et pratiques d’exposition alternatives, directed by Leszek Brogowski, Université Rennes 2, 2012). Through its meetings, publication seeks to transmit and make understand what is meant by “artists’ books”, and calls each guest to share his vision of the discipline. WHO IS IT? publication is a project dreamed up by Mélissa Djinekou over the past few years. A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts, she ended her studies by specializing in book and paper design. She then pursued her desire to contribute to the artist’s book sphere by working for a specialized bookstore, a publishing house and an exhibition space. These are key places where the great diversity of printed artistic productions mixes and where the actors of the field meet. BUT WHY? Little known in the art world, artists’ editions are even less known among the wider public. To make up for this lack, publication is thought in the review format: periodical, diffusible and accessible, a form of the book without pretension. publication claims and considers the book as a democratic support, within reach of all, allowing the diffusion of knowledge and in particular of the artistic creation. It is with a will of opening and bringing to the greatest number of people a whole part of the contemporary creation that the first issue of publication comes out!