Astrid Seme: A Copy of Dabernig, Josef: handwritten copies. BAWAG Foundation Edition. Christoph Keller Editions. JRP|Ringier Kunstverlag, Zürich.

Softcover with flaps, thread stitching, 23 × 31.7 cm, 152 pages
Edition: unique, ballpen on paper, 2010–2012

In the 1990s, the Austrian artist Josef Dabernig copied books by hand. 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.
[read more] 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 is copying the facsimile catalogue herself by hand. Along with Dabernig’s copies, the cover, logo, imprint, prologue, as well as formal elements such as size, cover and page properties (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.
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