Paul-Armand GETTE
Volcanisme, Sculptures & Passion
Gent; Imschoot, Uitgevers; 1990 IM-series, 64p., 14,8 x 21 cm, sewn, printing: full colour + vieux rose Luxury edition of 20 copies, signed and numbered, linen hardcover + wrapper Ref.1, Ref.2 Ex. 11/20 Condition : tiny tear (7 mm) at the top of the back wrapper, otherwise as new.
Conceptual Art, Avant-Garde, Imschoot Uitgevers
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One of Gette’s continuing passions is stone and this book traces a number of different manifestations. It includes a series of anthropomorphic drawings in which there is a confluence between rocks and human anatomy; photographs; inventories of different types of stone, and reproductions of stone sculptures, among others. Includes notes by Bernard Marcadé and an appendix for the reader to record his/her reactions. Ref.1
Follow Gette on an art and geological tour through rocky terrain and mounds of Venus. Ref.3
Paul-Armand Gette (1927 Lyon – 2024 Paris) In the 1960s, after scientific studies, he decided to devote himself only to his research in the space of art. This unclassifiable artist does not care about labels: all his work blurs the borders between natural sciences, literature, poetry, mythology and history of art. From 1968, he borrowed methods from science and introduced them into his artistic work. His studies entitled “transect” started in 1974. Fascinated by this process, he uses it scrupulously as a “gift from science to art”. Ref.4
Imschoot Uitgevers In 1987 publishing house Imschoot (Ghent- Belgium) started an exceptional series of artists’ books made by international artists (Giovanni Anselmo, Sol LeWitt, John Baldessari, Lawrence Weiner, Hanne Darboven, Robert Barry, Christian Boltanski, Dan Graham, a.o.). Ref.5
In addition to the regular softcover edition (500 to 1000 copies), a deluxe hardcover edition was also issued in a very limited edition, numbered and signed by the artists.
The publishing house ceased its activities in 2006.
References
- Ref.1: Imschoot, uitgevers Catalogue 1993-1994, Artists’ books
- Ref.2: IM-series The IM-series is a collection of artists’ books, published on the occasion of the exhibition series “Affinités Sélectives” at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, organized by Bernard Marcadé. The artists were given complete freedom to develop their project, not necessarily matching their exhibition. A constant format of 14,8 x 21 cm. was adopted.
- Ref.3: Imschoot, uitgevers [2002] Catalogue
- Ref.4: www.cairncentredart.org
- Ref.5: Johan Pas (Een essay door -), Het kunstenaarsboek in België: de voorzet tot een geschiedenis., Kunstenpunt
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