Astrid Seme
A Copy of Dabernig, Josef:
handwritten copies.
BAWAG Foundation Edition. Christoph Keller Editions.
JRP|Ringier Kunstverlag, Zürich.
In the 1990’s, the Austrian artist
Josef Dabernig copied very
precisely in writing some books
and theoretical scripts. Amongst
them were “Beauty and digestion
or the rejuvenation of the human
being only by appropriate
maintenance of the intestine” by
Dr. Franz Xaver Mayer and
“Il territorio dell' architettura” by
Vittorio Gregotti. In 2008, both
works were published in a
facsimile catalogue by the
renowned Swiss publishing house
for art books JRP. This very
catalogue plays a role in the work
of the Austrian graphic designer.
Astrid Seme, who is using
Dabernig’s modus operandi to
copy the facsimile catalogue
herself by hand. Along with the
Dabernig’s copies the cover, logo,
imprint, prologue, as well as formal
elements such as size, cover and
page pro-perties (color, paper
weight, etc) are reproduced. By
doing so Seme puts an art book up for debate, which has been
duplicated with the matter and the
methods of a publishing house and
points out elements that are added
by the reproduction of an art book
and therefore changes it.
23 × 31.7 cm, 152 pp with flaps,
Arctic Volume white, 200g and
Splendorlux premiuim white, 300g
ballpen on paper, 2010, one-off
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