Olivier Mosset Wallpaper

Olivier Mosset
Wallpaper
Lyon, France: Wallpaper by Artists, 2006
53 x 1005 cm.
Edition of 100

A monochrome wallpaper available from the publishers, here.

Yesterday it was announced that Mosset is one of the winners of this year's Prix Meret Oppenheim and Swiss Grand Award for Art winners (Christoph Büchel is the other artist recognized). For more information, visit Artinfo, here.

Gillian Wearing | Total Stranger

Gillian Wearing
Total Stranger
London, UK: AOTUEditions / Art on the Underground Editions, 2013
84 × 52.5 cm.
Edition of 100 signed and numbered copies

“The Tube is full of strangers. We acknowledge this fact, knowing that we too are strangers to others. My project is to photograph a stranger. The person came forward via an open call advertised in the Metro newspaper and on the TfL website. I chose them through a raffle­ticket system, which did not reveal their name, age or gender. Until we met on a train and I took her photograph, I still didn’t know her identity, and she didn’t know who I was either. For a brief moment, we were total strangers to each other.”

- Gillian Wearing

Christo turns 80 today

Christian Marclay, Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore | Fuck Shit Up

Christian Marclay, Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore
Fuck Shit Up
Victoriaville, Canada: Les Disques VICTO, 2000
Audio CD, 71:33
Edition size unknown

On May 24th, as part of the 16th International Festival de Musique Actuelle, Christian Marclay and half of Sonic Youth played an improvised set in the small Quebec town of Victoriaville. Other performers in the festival that year included Godspeed You Black Emperor! Jim O'Rourke, Merzbow, John Zorn and Elliot Sharp.

The sixty-three minute set and nine minute encore are presented here in their entirety. The cover graphic features a turntable that Marclay found in a junk shop across the street from the hotel a day before the performance. It once belonged to a Diane Allaire, who the encore is dedicated to.

The title, if I remember correctly, comes from an eager fan who shouted "Fuck shit up!" as the performers took the stage.

Excerpts from the program are below.

Vanessa Maltese | Several Observations

Vanessa Maltese
Several Observations 
Toronto, Canada: Slow Editions, 2015
[14 pp.], 20.3 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm., boards
Edition of 100 signed and numbered copies

Slow Editions founder Eunice Luk is leaving the country for an extended residency this week, but I understand that this title will be available from Art Metropole in the next few days.

Absorption Spectra of Blood Samples

A tear-out bookmark from Cabinet magazine number 43, available from the publisher, here.

Alice Hutchins | C'est La Vie

Alice Hutchins
C'est La Vie
Cologne, Germany: Edition Hundertmark, 1990
14 x 14 x 4.5 cm
Edition of 12 signed and numbered copies

A magnet ring painted black, diameter 13 cm and a steel ring painted red, diameter 6 cm. Available from the publisher, here, for 380 Euro.