Following the invitation of MAK curator Bärbel Vischer to France in 2024, several artist books by artists from France are included in the exhibition TURNING PAGES : Artists’ Books of the Present.
Books tell stories, convey knowledge and emotions, are windows onto new worlds—and conceptual creativity turns them into autonomous works of art. Since the 1960s, generations of artists have been rethinking the book as medium and using it to imaginatively express new ideas. Some 300 experimental publications in the MAK’s TURNING PAGES : Artists’ Books of the Present exhibition provide insights into the genre’s aesthetic variety.
Artists from the French art scene featured in the exhibition include Daniel Buren, Katinka Bock, Yto Barrada, Éric Baudelaire, Jean-Luc Moulène, Bernar Venet, and others.
