Batia Suter
Subtitle: radial grammar
By: exhibition curated by Diane Dufour
Contributors: Dufour, Diane, curator; Michaux, Henri, 1899-1984, writer of added text; Bal (Art organization : Paris, France)
Series: Roma publication -- 323; ROMA publication -- 323.
Publisher: Roma Publications
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9789492811233
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Exhibitions; Appropriation (Art); Video art
Other titles: Radial grammar
Description: The imagery in this book, which revolves around radial shapes and concepts, also forms the basis of a video work in the exhibition. Specific for the book is the use of two separate layers of black ink, allowing Suter to create double images and to merge patterns and screens. Departing from pages scanned from her collection of second hand tomes - mainly concerning natural science, precision machinery and art history - Suter freely manipulates them and reorders them within the space of a book, which can be seen as a condensed exhibition on paper. The result is a journey along visual phenomena that reconnects us with the endless curiosity and patience of our younger selves leafing through an encyclopedia, unattended and unable to read, yet all the more sensitive to its inner visual rhymes and correspondences. With a text by Henri Michaux from 1968 (English translation and French).
Notes: On occasion of an exhibition held at Le Bal, Paris, May 25 - August 26, 2018.

Includes accordion-folded supplement containing only illustrations.

Includes bibliographical references.

In English and French.