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Twenty copies of the examples de tete were bound by Knoderer - the Sackner Archive copy is one of these copies. The illustrations by Pageris are semi-realistic, line drawings with a background of black watercolored abstract markings. The bookbinding has sample strips of tooled and painted leather laid into a bimorphic shape whose silhouette has features resembling the side of the human face. The binding is much larger than the booklet which is conventionally shaped. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Internet: Michel Francois, born in 1956 in Saint-Trond (Belgium) has participated in the Venice Biennial (1999), in Documenta 9, Kassel (1992) and has shown his work at many solo and group shows around the world. The Institut d'art contemporain presented Plans d'evasion, the first large monographic exhibition of Michel Francois' work produced jointly with the S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent. This collaboration between the S.M.A.K. and the IAC shows their common interest in monographic exhibitions, that is to say directly with the artist, providing him with the space, the time and the means to show work in all its complexity. It also allowed the publication of the first retrospective catalogue of the artist's work, an occasion to take full measure of what he has done since the 1980s. Symmetry is a fundamental element in the relation between Michel Francois and the two exhibition spaces. At the Institute, he uses this feature while readapting the presentation of...

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The colophon states that each book is different and contains original drawings. The pages mainly are recyled from other books published by the Boekie Wookie group in Amsterdam. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The back cover of the book is bound to the inside of the case such that the book and case are integrated. The style of the drawings is somewhat reminescent of that drawn by Roland Topor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each pair of eyeglasses is unique, an analogy to the ready-mades of Duchamp. The box that contains the book and objects has the appearance of an oversized wooden match box. Bloomberg News published a mostly negative review of Miami's private art collections and Art Basel Miami in general. However, Favre's work was mentioned in a positive light: "To be surprised, you had to venture into the smaller galleries and satellite fairs. Discoveries for me were Christopher Kurtz's wood sculptures, including "First Dark" (2010), an abstract amalgamation of ornament, bird and star; Valerie Favre's inventive, narrative ink drawings and collages exploring themes of performance and dream; and the quirky, mixed-media tree sculptures of Gonzalo Gonzalez." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem object consist of two silkscreened prints depicting experimental music scores wrapped several times around a stiff printed card. The folders insert within a bent open plexiglas frame; the abstract plaster sculpture is sited on the forward bend of the plexiglas frame. The plastic circular poem object with white painted handwriting is mounted on an opened folder on the back of the book object. The sound poem was recorded on the tape casette by Serge Pey. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Lames means thin metal in English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.