
KAMERA Cahier N° 3. Ion Grigorescu
- Publisher
- AVARIE / Labor Neunzehn
- Year
- 2021
- Specifications
- Soft cover with omega staple binding
21 x 14.5 cm
24 pages
Colour plates
Papers Fedrigoni Sirio Rough Pearl 210 and Arena White Rough 120
Typeface Magister by Aldo Novarese, 1966
Cover letterpress by Archivio Tipografico, Turin
Digital and letterpress print by Moglia
75 numbered copies, each with a notebook page
A series of pictures by Ion Grigorescu
Curated, edited and designed by Giuliana Prucca and Valentina Besegher Scotti
A special edition issue curated, designed and published by AVARIE, Paris, and Labor Neunzehn, Berlin. It accompanies the KAMERA programme while remaining an independent object to collect. The central idea that directs the montage of these small volumes is the interplay between addition and subtraction: a missing image from the projection, or an unreleased second taken from an artist's work, expanded over twenty-four pages, with a piece removed directly from the show enclosed in every copy. The editing sets up a dialogue between frames and performed writings drawn from texts, scripts, storyboards and notes, so that the exhibition is extended into a physical space.
KAMERA is a programme of experimental moving images and printed matter held in a former GDR building in Berlin. Each event shows a retrospective of one artist over four days, alongside a small display of their publications or works on paper, and sets out to foster a critical dialogue between different formats.
A central figure of conceptual and performative art in eastern Europe since the early seventies, Ion Grigorescu has worked on sexuality, the body and politics from both a communist and a capitalist point of view, following historical change. He is the author of series of images, drawings, paintings and collages, as well as of performances recorded on film, which concentrate on ritualised actions around his own body and lead beyond art into a private life.