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LAb[au] Editions presents art in the form of publications. Many recent projects have generated libraries, archives, and cabinets whose conceptual frameworks rely on reproduction, iteration, seriality, and multiplication.

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Many of these works emerge from extensive processes of research and development. These processes often generate extensive series of results that require reproducible material forms—digital prints, photocopies, colour samples, index cards, folders, or other formats. In these formats, the underlying concepts find precise material expression. For some, the edition constitutes the very form through which the work exists.

 

LAb[au] Editions creates a dedicated field in which these works can be produced under viable conditions and circulated directly at accessible prices.

Through an autonomous structure of publication and distribution, LAb[au] Editions preserves the integrity of each work while remaining complementary to our collaborations with galleries.

 

The value of these artist books, monographs, multiples, and limited or open editions lies in their distinct material and conceptual qualities, in the knowledge and experience they make accessible, and in the engagement with our work and research that they enable.

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Made to circulate—to be read, handled, collected, and shared.

Axiom lib artist book by LAb[au] with coloured cards and slipcases

AXIOM *lib

MULTIPLE
 
AXIOM *lib
48 Axioms about Art
48 notebooks for thoughts and actions
48 notebooks to write your stories and reflections
 
The collection is the result of the dialogue between the artist Jofroi Amaral and Manuel Abendroth, LAb[au]
 
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Only a selection of axioms is presented
in the online store. Download the catalogue of
48 Axioms (PDF) →

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  • Edition Details

    Year: 2023
    Format: 60 × 16 × 10 cm
    Wooden archive box containing 48 Notebooks
    16 orange, 16 clear blue, 8 green, 8 red
    The library is signed and stamped on the reverse
    Edition of 10 + 1 artist’s proof
    Produced to order
    This edition: 4/10

  • Description

    Axiom lib is a collection of notebooks.

    An axiom is a proposition accepted without proof as a starting point for reasoning. Here, this logical form is transformed into a series of artistic propositions. Developed through recurring exchanges between Jofroi Amaral and Manuel Abendroth, 48 axioms take the form of notebooks.

     

    Their titles permute concepts: Zeitbilder | Bilder der Zeit (images of time | the time of images); Sprache der Bilder | Bilder der Sprache (the language of images | images of language); Möglichkeitsbilder | Bilder des Möglichen (images of possibility | images of the possible). Each reversal shifts meaning and opens questions between the representable and the unrepresentable, between image and thought, and between theory and artistic practice.
     

    The titles already contain the theoretical proposition of each notebook, while the empty pages invite their owners to reflect on it and add or share their own thoughts. In this way, theory takes on an artistic and material form. Brought together in a wooden archive box, the 48 coloured volumes become a single block: a library and a sculpture of thought.

     

    The complete library is offered as one work; each notebook is also available separately.

  • Shipping

    This artwork is produced to order. Please allow up to two weeks for production before dispatch. Shipping costs are calculated according to destination. The work is shipped in protective art packaging.

€350.00Price
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