Revisiting the Page
Sarah Boris, Anna Gestering, Patrick Thomas and Julien Villaret
February 6 – March 15, 2025
Opening: Thurs. February 6, 18 - 20 hr
Tues. + Wed. 11 - 15 hr / Thurs. + Fri. 11 - 18 hr / Sat. 11 - 15 hr
einBuch.haus / Florastr. 61, 13187 Berlin
Image © Sarah Boris
Revisiting the Page brings together four distinct approaches to contemporary artists’ books. To begin the new year, we spotlight a selection of works previously featured in our exhibition program, A Book in the Form of an Exhibition, focusing on the intricate relationship between artists’ books and artworks. This exhibition offers a renewed opportunity to engage with these works, allowing them to speak once more to the ongoing dialogue between the physicality of the book and the artistic expression it embodies.
Featuring publications by Sarah Boris, Anna Gestering, Patrick Thomas, and Julien Villaret, this group exhibition highlights each artist’s unique approach to conceptualizing, processing, and creating. These books and artworks invite viewers to explore their tactile and visual qualities, encouraging deeper engagement with materiality and content.
Featured Artists' books
Sarah Boris, Le Théâtre Graphique (Generation Press, 2023)
Anna Gestering, Tidings (2023)
Patrick Thomas, Chroma (2021)
Julien Villaret, Algae Paper from Finistère (2024)
Le Théâtre Graphique
Sarah Boris
Published by Generation Press, 2023
163 x 185 mm portrait, 72 pages
5 Pantones Offset, Foiled + Die cut cover
Edition of 200
Le Théâtre Graphique (The Graphic Theatre) is a wordless flipbook where the waves of the sea transform into a theatre curtain. It is also a metaphor for the rising sea levels and the ambivalence between man-made and natural spaces. The book presents a theatre of shapes and colours. It draws correlations between forms. Initially self-published in 2015 and exhibited as part of Boris’ solo exhibition at Une Saison Graphique, a festival of art and design, the book was published as a limited edition in 2016, which is currently out of print, this is the third edition, revised and expanded. The first edition of the book was acquired by the Stedelijk Amsterdam.
TIDINGS
Anna Gestering
210 × 297 mm, 11 pp.
Leporello, (openform: 252 cm)
Interior: Indigo print on Metapaper Extrarough warmwhite 270 g/qm
Cover: UV-Direct printing on bookbinding cardboard 2mm
Digital print: AusDruck GbR Berlin
Signed and numbered edition of 10
TIDINGS is a playful exploration of the concept of information overload. The form of the analog book challenges the viewer to actively deal with this flood. The reference to the tides in the title suggests a specific structure and rhythm. It is less about translating this rhythm into an exact graphic representation than about the symbolic alternation of high and low tide, mass and emptiness and the search for order in a seemingly endless expanse that can be both attractive and overwhelming in its unmanageability.
Chroma
Patrick Thomas, 2021
Silkscreen 50 x 50 cm
Hahnemühle 300g/m2
Unique Piece
Silkscreen compositions generated using ©Processing coding software. Found graphic optical calibration symbols and registration marks are fed into open source coding, scrambled and output as unique prints. The project questions authorship and is an investigation into automation and a celebration of the traditional silkscreen print process. The artist assumes the role of print technician. The work shown is a selection of random compositions taken from the Chroma publication.
Algae Paper from Finistère
Julien Villaret, 2024
150 x 210 mm, 10pp.
Silk-screen printed fabric hard cover + 10 algae paper sheets (Ulva, Nori, Dulse or Kombu) Edition of 10 + 2AP
Each book is unique and packaged with a cardboard display in a conservation box.
The unique artist's book edition, Algae Paper from Finistère, consists of papers made with seaweed harvested on the Brittany coast, and bound by Julien Villaret. Each book has different colors of paper sheets – green, red, or dark brown – representing each family of macro-algae. Species like Ulva, Porphira (Nori), Dulse or Kombu have been used in the production of these sheets of paper. The book lets the seaweed paper extend freely beyond its format, turning it into a living, organic object, ready to begin colonizing its immediate environment. This book-making process is also a tribute to the work of the first amateur marine botanists, the Crouan Brothers, who began collecting and documenting seaweed in Brittany in beautiful handmade books (Exsiccata) at the end of the 19th century.
