Equivalents

A short film of the latest artist’s book produced for AMBruno One and Many Pages project 2020. AMBruno is presenting this project at Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair, New York. The Fair opens at 4.00EST on 24th February until 28th February. We will be listed and accessible on the Fair’s main site: https://pmvabf.org/ and the AMBruno dedicated site live at the time of the fair is ambruno.pmvabf.org.

AMBruno's new book project for 2020 is One and many pages; the brief sent out in the call for proposals consisted of the photograph and its title. Artists were invited to respond to the image, the photograph's represented subject, and the accompanying phrase. Clive Phillpot made a selection from the (anonymised) submissions. Over the past six months, a time of the one of isolation and of the many in the appreciation of community, twelve artists have been working on their books. Their approaches to the given subject have been thought-provoking and varied, with interpretations ranging from the formal to the metaphoric. Some have highlighted the materiality of the page and of the book, or that of a printed depiction of pages and of the concatenation of leaves. Others have taken One and many and page in a more allusive way, with the works' genesis coming from current events, from literary and visual art sources, and ornithology.

The artists are: Mette-Sofie Ambeck, Judy Goldhill, Susan Johanknecht & Katharine Meynell, Pauline Lamont-Fisher, Sophie Loss, John McDowall, Caroline Penn, Ximena Pérez Grobet, Sumi Perrera, Peter Rapp, and Cally Trench.

The full set of eleven One and many pages books has been bought by the British Library, and also by the Library of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore USA for their Special Collections.