in the year 1968 the curator seth
siegelaub invited seven artists (carl andre, robert barry,
douglas huebler, joseph kosuth, sol lewitt, robert morris and
lawrence weiner) to participate in a project that soon
became well known as “the xerox book”.
siegelaub’s idea was to transfer the physical space of an
exhibition onto the pages of a book. he asked the seven artists
to contribute 25 pages of art work produced with the help of a
xerox machine.
“the copy book” copies
siegelaub’s idea: again seven artists were invited to
participate in an art show in the form of a 100-copy book
edition. this time each artist was asked to contribute a work
consisting of 10 pages produced with a photocopy machine. since
the idea was not only to use the photocopy method as a means of
reproducing the work, but to make it an inherent aspect of the
artwork itself, every artist was asked to submit his or her
contribution of 10 pages a hundred times, that is, for the
entire 100-copy edition.
the following artists contributed to
“the copy book”:
karl holmqvist
hell is
other people
andreas koch
400%
dustin larson
without title
jan mancuska
10 x 10
x 10 of reality (vol. I.)
michaela meise
tochternzimmer
albrecht schäfer
copypaper
white a4
haegue yang
founded quasi m.b.
published by barbara buchmaier and stefan
schuster, berlin 2006
21 x 29,7 cm, 70 pp
paperback brochured
euro 19 plus shipment
