Micah Lexier | Leporello Nº 02

Micah Lexier

Leporello Nº 02

Gothenburg, Sweden: ll'Editions, 2021

[10] pp., 99.0 × 14.2 × 2.3 cm., boxed

Edition of 250 numbered copies

Released late last month, this handsomely produced boxed work is the second in ll'Editions' series of accordion fold works, following a project by Heimo Zobernig. The next work in the series is by Fiona Banner. Designed by Lundgren+Lindqvist, the work features die-dut elements, foil embossing, and perforations.  It is numbered via rubber stamp on the verso of the box. 

Leporello Nº 02 is available from the publisher, here, for 25.00 EUR.

"A number of years ago Micah Lexier purchased a small paperback publication about the game of dominoes. The very end of the book consisted of a series of pages that reproduced a complete set of twenty-eight domino tiles. The images were printed on right-hand pages, four to a page, while the left-hand pages were blank. The idea was that you were supposed to cut these images out of the book and glue them to empty matchboxes to create your own do-it-yourself set. That sequence of pages, combined with the quality of their reproductions, was the inspiration for Lexier’s leporello. To that, he added two favourite print techniques – perforations and die-cut holes – to create a set of ten domino tiles. Lexier chose the denomination of each tile and its order in the leporello so that none of the thirty-four die-cut holes line up with each other, allowing each hole to be misread as a printed white domino dot."

- publisher's blurb