Offprint Paris

If i was in Paris right now i would go to Offprint Paris

Offprint Paris (Link) is an Art Publishing Fair focused on emerging practices in Art.

We give special attention to the evolution of publishing/curating from traditional “spaces” (catalogues, artists books, photobooks, newspapers, but also museums and schools) towards new spaces and artists organizations (independent publishing, self publishing strategies, websites, blogs, social networks, activism, non institutional activities...).

We consider that the topic of “Publishing” can offer a stimulating hermeneutic to analyse the structure and development of the contemporary art world in a context of digitalization of cultures.

Check out their website, especially the Participants Section. But be warned: you get lost very easily between all those publishers, books and prints ....

2 Examples after the break


Things here and things still to come 

by José Pedro Cortes chez Pierre Von Kleist


Lightning Strikes Again Parcifal:

SC / 44 pages / 30 x 21 cm
Published by
MER. Paper Kunsthalle
Design
Parcifal Neyt
ISBN
978-94-906-9335-0
Price
35.00 euros
The book brings together 35 attemps to photograph lightning after a heavy storm, leaving the shutter of the camera closed. The flash inexpectedly went off, during the taking of the last photograph.
Limited edition of 100 copies signed and numbered by the artist.
More info:
www.brangel.com