Exhibitions

The space of the page presented examples of the book being used by artists for the broadest range of purposes, and as a contrast to its more usual associations with book-craft, bindings and luxurious paper and the preciousness of isolated tactility.

Without falling into the trap of trying to define 'the artists's book', the space of the page examined work made by artists over the last thirty years, Around 100 books and other printed forms were presented under a series of new cateogries.

The presence of landscape dealt with a recurring theme that is often resolved for many artists in book form.
Material evidence presented and examined conceptualism's subversion of the physicality of sculpture
Extensions on the body explored the physicality of the book as a human presence.
For performance showed the book working as a script or programme for a hypothetical or actual event taking place alongside.
The object of the book dealt with the book and its format as the subject of bokos themselves.
Beyond the page showed books as objects in their own right, their appearance almost independent of their contents.

Simon Cutts co-curator of the exhibiton, wrote: 'As Anne Moeglin-Delcroix suggests in her recent work in this area, the idea of the artist implemementing the book is not a phenomenon that occurs in isolation, but one which relates to magazines and other revues, artists' postcards, rubber stamps and other emphemera, multiple objects, films and videos, and the whole platform of criticism surrounding it'