Happy Birthday to Paul Van Kooy

 

Happy Birthday to Paul Van Kooy, of Paul+Wendy Projects. 

Masanao Hirayama | My Collection

Masanao Hirayama

My Collection 

Tokyo, Japan: UTRECHT, 2023

20 pp., 18.2 x 12.8 cm., staple-bound

Edition of 200

A thin glossy booklet featuring photographs from the artist’s five year long collection of used toilet paper rolls. Released last year, the work has already sold out. 

Xmas Haul

On our final day in Ontario for the holidays our car was robbed in Niagara Falls and we lost some Xmas presents to us and from us. Luckily some things were ignored and others recovered. And there were some very nice things waiting in the mailbox when we got home. 

The above works by Jeremy Deller, Charles Kraftt, Himaa, GuyGuyGuy, David Bellingham, Jenny Slate and Cary Leibowitz will be posted properly in the coming weeks.

Multiples Pop-Up Shop

 

In Toronto there’s a tight-knit community of publishers interested in editions. Today, several of us are presenting a pop-up shop at MKG127, from noon to six. Participants include Paul+Wendy Projects, Slow Editions, GuyGuyGuy, Alicia’s Klassic Kool Shoppe, Jimmy Limit & Maggie Groat and our own Nothing Else Press. 

For several years the Toronto Art Fair accommodated publishers of artists’ books and multiples but this stopped during Covid, and hasn’t returned. So this event harkens back to something four of us (along with Bywater Brothers) hosted years ago at G Gallery. 

Whether you’re doing some last minute Christmas shopping (or Christmas shopping), or nearby enough to stop in and say hello, please drop by. There will be things available for every price range, including risographed zines, rubber stamps, t-shirts,  tote-bags, hats, scarves, postcards, prints, pins, clocks, sculpture, stickers, ceramics, cards, etc. etc. 

Hope to see you there. 

Thanks to Masanao Hirayama [Himaa] for the graphics, Michael Klein for the space, Panya Clark Espinal for altering her beautiful exhibition today to accommodate us, Mercer Union for the tables and Micah Lexier for handling most of the organization, despite only participating in an unofficial capacity. 

/edition Toronto: Bookclub

Above are a few images from the Powerpoint slide show that I'm currently compiling for Bookclub's  Saturday presentation at /edition Toronto. Included so far are samples from postcard sets from the collection of Michael Klein, an Endre Tót work from Micah Lexier, Bill Clarke's Dieter Roth book, and the Smallest Book, by Himaa, from Derek McCormack's collection of packaged items.

Bookclub events are typically held in the member's homes, but periodically the group ventures out to give public presentations, using the speaker fees to fund the yearly production of a Book bag (Michael Dumontier, Kay Rosen, Claude Closky, Sara Mackillop, etc.)

Details for the event are below, or at http://www.editiontoronto.com/programming/

Book Club
SAT OCT 29 at 4:00 PM
Since 2008, ten of Toronto’s most dedicated collectors and aficionados of artist’s books, editions and ephemera have been meeting as Book Club. At these meetings, the curators, collectors and artists who make up the group share their latest acquisitions with each other in what they describe as “show and tell for book-loving grown-ups.”

Members of the group have agreed to do a public “show and tell” of rare and interesting items from their collections. Book Club’s presentation will be a unique opportunity to see and learn about rare artist’s books and editions that usually remain securely under glass when exhibited in galleries and museums.

The members of Book Club include: Micah Lexier, Sarah Robayo Sheridan, Derek Sullivan, Bill Clarke, Dave Dyment, Roula Partheniou, Paul Van Kooy, Wendy Gomoll, Derek McCormack and Michael Klein. Members of Book Club have presented items from their collections in talks at The Power Plant and the London Art Book Fair (Whitechapel Gallery, U.K.)