Library Ideal Ideal Library
Launched on the occasion of the exhibition at IDEAL Art Space in Leipzig (March-May 2024) and connecting the two parts of Robin Waart’s Lakeside Library, the double publication contains 22 postcards, one by each artist participating in the project: presented in pairs, above and below each other – layered in such a way that by flipping through or reshuffling them, the cards speak to each other in new and eccentric combinations, both similar to and different from its companion postcard book Footnotes I have never seen (2022).
Ending on a list of all the authors, publishers and institutions that contributed to the library, the booklet is held together by endpapers that are at the same time reproductions of the marbled curtains that Lena Sieder-Semlitsch made for Wörthersee, Wörthersee (July-September 2023): they are what remains after the cards have been sent away.
The publication has been made possible with support from the Mondriaan Fonds
Library Ideal Ideal Library
Stichting Mei (sm books) and backbonebooks, 2024
A postcard book edited by Robin Waart
with Patrícia Almeida, Maria Anwander, Josef Dabernig, Claire Fontaine, Hermann Gabler, Hermann Gabler, Dora García, Irena Haiduk, Iman Issa, Ana Jotta, Marijn van Kreij, John Morgan, Kay Rosen, Hans Schabus, Lena Sieder-Semlitsch, John Stezaker, Mitchell Thar, Samuel Bich and Claudia de la Torre
Book design Jesse Manschot sm & backbonebooks, Amstelveen/Berlin
211 x 149 x 7 mm, 22 postcards (48 pages)
Swiss bound, offset on cardstock
ISBN 978-90-829362-5-4 / ISBN 978-90-829362-2-3
Edition of 555
