Architecture is frozen music

Collection
The New York Public Library, NYC
Klingspor Museum, DE
HMOKA Museum, KR
VCU Qatar Library, Doha QA

einBuch.haus is delighted to co-publish the second edition of Architecture is Frozen Music (2022) with Naima Editions, which has been also nominated for Prix Révélation Livre d'artiste ADAGP 2022.

For over ten years, Catugier has been creating analogies between music and architecture, through video, photography, installation and performance. The publication is Catugier’s first-ever monograph, a culmination of works collated from her residencies in Germany, Czech Republic, Japan, Iran, Poland, Russia, and Egypt. The publication is complemented by an ebook containing Catugier’s own videos, performances and work-in-progress; as well as her collaboration with the musicians and essayists.

Architecture is Frozen Music presents Catugier’s work on Indigo-printed pages, hand-bounded from multiple directions. The publication is intended to be viewed in various orientations, with endless combinations possible by overlapping the pages. The book’s structure is built according to ‘Open Form’ theory by the Polish Modernist Architect Oksar Hansen. Without hierarchies to forms, the readers are invited to create their own path when navigating the architectural compositions of the book. The freely formed orders mirror the freedom of inhabiting and moving within a space, envisioned by the Modernist architectural designs.

Architecture is Frozen Music was presented at Catugier’s solo exhibition in einBuch.haus in March 2022. Resonating with our ethos of showcasing a book as an exhibition, each copy of the second edition of Architecture is Frozen Music is presented with unique covers, fragment cut in blueback paper prints displayed at her previous exhibitions. The materiality of the cover connects the interaction with a book object to the latent memories of the exhibitions.

Architecture is Frozen Music
Laure Catugier

einBuch.haus & Naima Editions, 2022 

Artist Book 2nd edition

Folded object 
in a box with the embossed title

Concept, graphic design and image credit: Laure Catugier
Indigo Print by AusDruck
Binding: Julia Fabricius, Buchbinderei Klünder

Signed and numbered 
Second edition of 30 + 3 AP

Artist Book 1st edition

Folded object
15x19cm, Munken paper 150g (cover), 70, 90g(inside)

Design: Maycec
Concept: Laure Catugier
Printing: À LA MAISON, Paris
ISBN 978-2-37440-167-6
Signed and numbered 
First edition of 30 + 3 AP

E-BOOK

Text: Livia Tarsia In Curia, Elise Girardot, Natasha Chuk

EPUB; Englisch
ISBN 978-2-37440-115-7
Translation: Claudio Cambon
Proofreading: Gareth Davies

Exhibition Architecture is Frozen Music
March. 3 - May. 7, 2022