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time and possibility

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public art
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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.

One of a Billion Years artist book cover with embossed title

One of a Billion Years -book edition

ARTIST BOOK

One of a Billion Years -book edition
Series of artist books
2019
LAb[au], Manuel Abendroth, Jérôme Decock, Els Vermang

  • Edition Details

    Year: 2019
    Size: 22 × 30 × 3 cm
    365 pages; cloth hardcover with embossed title
    Signed at the back

    Each book is unique in the combinations it displays. The series is un<->limited: each year exists only once, but further books can be made as long as new combinations remain.
    until we can count time

    This Book is Year 103

  • Description

    One of a Billion Years

    YEAR 103

     

    The artist books are an open-ended series related to the installation One of a Billion Years. Each book contains 365 pages and corresponds to one year of unique combinations generated from a system of 16-segment displays showing each hour one unique combination of over a trillion configurations is mathematically possible. Yet this number – abstract – is slowly unfolding, image by image, hour by hour. Each individual sheet stands for a day; an entire wall of sheets comprises a year. A century manifests itself in one hundred books.

     

    The first 100 books are part of the installation, extending its 365 framed days into the span of a century. Beginning with Year 101, further years exist as individual artist books. Each year—and each book, each combination—is unique. The series has no predetermined final edition size, as long as there are unique conminations, as long as we can count years.

  • Shipping

    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.

€600.00Price
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