Showing posts with label Artist book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Artist book. Show all posts

Saturday, April 28, 2012

April 29 is International Dance Day


Yvonne Rainer Poems
Published by Badlands Unlimited, New York, 2011
$13.00



Yvonne Rainer The Mind is a Muscle
Published by Afterall Books, London, 2007

Simone Forti Handbook in Motion

Published by NSCAD Press, Halifax, 1974

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Art Metropole invites you to our launch of 'Commerce By Artists' and Ben Kinmont's 'Sometimes'

 
Commerce By Artists

Edited by Luis Jacob
2011 Art Metropole
$ 65.00

Book Launch and Public Conversation
Fri., March 23, 5-7pm

Hart House, second floor, South Dining Room
University of Toronto, 7 Hart House Circle
moderated by Luis Jacob with:
Ben Kinmont
Jon McCurley (Life of a Craphead)
Condé +Beveridge
Mammalian Diving Reflex

Jointly sponsored by the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at Hart House, University of Toronto 


....And the After Party

Fri., March 23, 9-2am

Double Double Land
209 Augusta Ave. (down the alley, first door on your right)
Kensington Market

***as always, Metropolitans get privileges***

with DJs Produzentin, Luis Jacob and a performance by Gentlelady Regina














At the bar, a project by Hannah Jickling and Helen Reed


Then, Saturday March 24th from 2-5pm,
Art Metropole will launch our latest edition....


Ben Kinmont Sometimes
published by Art Metropole

at Art Metropole
788 King Street West


The artist will be present

Sometimes a nicer sculpture is to be able to provide a living for your family 
consists of twelve catalogues, selected ephemera, and an original photograph, in a covered cardboard box.

5.9" × 5.3" x 7.9", letterpressed title, inlaid Bugra paper, hot-embossed stamp on two sides by Axel Friedrich, signed and numbered by Ben Kinmont on a letterpressed certificate printed by Urs Jost.


Saturday, December 17, 2011

We are open until December 23rd and we have these....













 Gifts By Artists 2011: Fastwürms, mousepads (various cats available)



Documenta 13: 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken (100 Notes - 100 Thoughts) #002: Ian Wallace
 


 
Felicity Tayler,

A Group of Cluster of Related Things 
(un groupe des choses èparses), 2010




 Documenta 13: 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken (100 Notes - 100 Thoughts) #008: Lawrence Weiner


 







Jon Sasaki, Good Intentions (catalogue), 2011





 Gifts By Artists 2011: Seth Scriver, Opposites Attract (print folio), 2011


 Gifts By Artists 2011: Alicia Nauta,Untitled (artist book), 2011 



Johannes Wohnseifer
A Secret Show in a Secret Place, 2011


Derek Sullivan, Albatross Omnibus (artist book series), 2011
Edition of 28. Only $12 each















Onya Hogan-Finlay, Periods (2012 artist calendar), 2011







  

And we still have lots of other Gifts By Artists multiples and brand new books!

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Psst! GIFTS BY ARTISTS is coming soon. Watch out for upcoming event announcements and our preview page...

Christy Langer, Untitled,2011
 
Peanut Brittle















Katie Bethune Leamen, Robert Dayton, Sarah Nasby, Miyo Takeda, Pascal Paquette, Colette Urban, Kika Thorne, Heather Goodchild, Kerri Reid, Laurie Kang, Anitra Hamilton, Hanna Hur, Lyndsey Cope, Chrysanne Stathacos, Liz Knox, Paul Kneale, Janice Gurney, Christy Langer, Matt King and Ryan Dodgson, Maryse Larivière, Petrina Ng, Emily Smit-Dicks, Jennie Suddick and Cole Swanson, Anitra Hamilton, Sarah Nasby, Derek Sullivan and Christy Thompson, Charlie Murray, Annie Dunning, Christine Baigent, Julius P. Manapul, Cary Leibowitz, XXXX collective, David Horvitz, Lex Vaughn, Alicia Nauta, Garry Neill Kennedy, VSVSVS collective, Bill Burns, Ron Benner, Tonik Wojtyra, Sandy Plotnikoff and Swintak. Performance by Peanut Brittle.

Anitra Hamilton, Blue Balls: The Multiple, 2011

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

What's On is What's Here

Pascal Paquette's mural can currently be seen in the courtyard of the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), Toronto. Click image to purchase or learn more about Paquette's Bricks.

 Mat Brown's series depicting natural history and deep time can currently be enjoyed at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), Toronto. Click image to purchase or learn more about his work Temptations of Cryogenian Thermal Genesis.


 Derek Sullivan was recently commissioned by the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto to produce Albatross Omnibus, new artist books, and a drawing and installation project. Peruse Sullivan's artist books at our shop in Toronto or click on any image of his books to take you to his listings on our site.

 Art Metropole will launch its latest 'By Artists' publication, Commerce by Artists, edited by Luis Jacob in December at Art Basel Miami with a Toronto launch to take place in early 2012. But purchase your copy now by clicking on the image of our book.

Antonia Hirsch and her project The Surplus Library On Affect & Economic Exchange will be featured at Art Metropole's booth at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art MISS READ art book fair in Berlin (November 25 - 27). Click on the image of Hirsch's Komma (after Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun) to find out more about this artist's work.

General Idea are the focus of the major retrospective exhibition Haute Culture: General Idea - A Retrospective 1969 to 1994 at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Click General Idea's crest above to purchase or learn more about this Canadian art collective's highly desirable editions.

Thursday, November 10, 2011