All the rest of the city is invisible...
Millions of eyes look up at windows, bridges, capers, and they might be scanning a blank page. Italo Calvino

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works / texts / design 
peter downsbrough
creative direction
giuliana prucca / vito raimondi
Hence 2004 / Or 2007
64 pages / 48 pages
13 x 19,5 cm / 12 x 18,5 cm
b/w and color plates
soft cover / otabind
papers fedrigoni arco design, symbol matt plus premium white
digital print

Here ... 2018
16 x 24 > 24 x 128 cm
b/w plates
leporello
paper fedrigoni arco design
offset and letterpress print

Option 2018 
[50 special edition signed boxes]
16 x 24 > 48 x 48
b/w poster
paper fedrigoni arco design
letterpress print
english
november 2018



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Prix Bob Calle du Livre d’artiste 2019 - nominated

PETER DOWNSBROUGH
Hence | Here … | Or | Option

 
A composite publication, articulated in several volumes and a leporello, which explores different printing techniques and invites to reflect on the transition from horizontal to vertical, from linear to three-dimensional and on movement as converging time and space. Preserving their autonomy, items intersect, meet and divide at once, while their editing and sense vary according to how readers connect words and images. They propose a critique of the power structures (architecture, urbanism) that influences social relations and permeates the landscape.
With Peter Downsbrough’s edition, AVARIE’s interest in instances of emptiness and (dis)appearance continues, together with the search for new forms of independence and resistance. Once the body has disappeared from the representation, the image stays alone, independent of reality, which it modifies and subverts in the heterotopic space of the book, making visible, with a displacement of the point of view, what is normally invisible due to an inability to see. If the utopian image is a subversive image, subversion is in turn utopian yet continuously desirable, intrinsic to humans: one cannot stop imagining even in the awareness that the image will remain the incomplete and fragmentary sign of an absent space.

Peter Downsbrough (New Jersey, 1940) lives in Brussels. His work – which encompasses sculpture, graphics, photography, video, film, and books – presents complex associations between architecture, text and typography.
Associated with major art international movements such as minimal art, conceptual art and visual poetry, he has been exhibiting regularly in the United States and Europe since 1972.
He is represented by: Angels, Barcelona; Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston; Thomas Zander, Cologne.  

www.angelsbarcelona.com | www.galeriezander.com | 
www.krakowwitkingallery.com

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