A physical book in the making
Two Pages
September 12 - 16, 2018
Opening: Wed, September 12, 2018, 19 hr
Workshop: Sat, September 15, 14 hr
einBuch.haus / Winsstraße 42, 10405 Berlin
* einBuch.haus invites Two Pages for an exhibition on the occasion of its official opening on the 12th of September 2018.
The majority of books we read today still have a similar form: sheets of paper with a cover. However, creators in the field of bookmaking attempt to extend the book’s function in physical, optical and psychological ways.
The concept ‘Exhibitions as Books’ was first suggested by Seth Siegelaub (1941-2013) as an alternative to the traditional exhibition space. As curator, he asked artists to participate in well-known projects such as the Xerox Book and July, August, September 1969. Unlike Siegelaub’s curated conceptual art
projects, Two Pages runs solely on a random, self-generated system.
Two Pages invites a creative/team in one city to become an initial contributor. This first participant proposes the next creative/team in the same city who in turn invites the following one and so forth. Each sketchbook has a theme and participants
are encouraged to freely respond in relation to it on their given two pages.
Two Pages began in November 2012. Six years later, there are 23 completed sketchbooks and four currently in progress. Two Pages has been graced by over 550 international artists, designers, illustrators, photographers and architects. The
sketchbooks have travelled to 38 cities including London, New York, Paris, Seoul, Barcelona, Tokyo, Athens, Helsinki, Berlin, Stockholm, Santiago, Milan, Riga, Lisbon, Amsterdam, The Hague, Antwerp, Buenos Aires and Sydney.
Following the main concept of ‘einBuch.haus’, where a single book is exhibited to read alongside related materials, Two Pages: A physical book in the making presents the Berlin Sketchbook (2014) with the theme ‘Q. What would you change?’. The 26 participants of the sketchbook are the result of a self- generated chain of creative people or teams based in Berlin.
In addition, a new collaborative experiment between Two Pages and einBuch.haus will explore ways for new visual narratives. This time, there is no sketchbook to pass on, instead, the participants’ response to the image below will be displayed
directly in the gallery space, questioning the format of publishing.
Through Two Pages: A physical book in the making, einBuch.haus suggests rethinking the performative process of bookmaking and reading. The exhibition will lead the audience to explore an unpredictable journey of how a book starts and
ends.
Two Pages / Konstantinos Trichas and Dionysis Livanis
Two Pages is a series of sketchbooks shared by artists, illustrators and designers around the world. The sketchbooks build a chain of creatives who inhabit the same city or place. ‘Two Pages’ is centred around the recording, spreading and exchanging of ideas which takes place throughout the hand-to-hand journey of each book.
Artists of the Berlin Sketchbook
1. Janna Klävers
2. Sarah Jansen
3. Veronika Teichmann
4. Nora Stögerer
5. Gerda Beuchel
6. Charlotte Hintzmann
7. Andrea Casartelli
8. Stephan Pohl
9. Oliver Popp
10. Tina Strube
11. Felicitas Horstschäfer
12. Julia Dürr
13. Johannes Mundinger
14. Rylsee
15. Evan Geltosky
16. Céline Burnand
17. Julia Schnöpel
18. Jessica Adorn & Carlotta Gregoratti
19. Lucio Palmieri
20. Jose Romussi
21. Pablo Díaz
22. Maxine Puorro
23. Laure Nolte
24. Rohim Chan
25. Sangbeom Woo
26. Hyunjeong Kim
