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Reproducción en #fotocopia o #xerografia de parte de #firma #grafotecnica #expertografotecnico #raymondorta . . #experticiamx #experticiaprevencion #experticiaencovid #experticiadevehiculos #experticiasmedicolegales #experticiaenlicores #experticia #experticiaensalud #experticiaquimica #experticiaforense #experticiavehicular https://www.instagram.com/p/CUPfqxxFwRb/?utm_medium=tumblr
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Xerografia, 2017
Ameeerica [me gusta America, le gusto a America]
Xerografia by Bruno Munari
Xerografia originale by Bruno Munari, 1968
JAMES HOFF
Current Residence
Brooklyn, NY
What is your favorite art book?
Store days: documents from The store, 1961, and Ray Gun Theater, 1962, by Claus Oldenburg
What are you currently reading?
Protocol by Alexander R. Galloway
What is your favorite art book title?
Just Another Asshole
What is the first book you read that was influential to you?
The Living Underground: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (edited by Hugh Fox) I came across this book by accident when I was twenty, but it gave me a whole new perspective on bookmaking and in particular the midwestern working class poetry/bookmaking movement of the 1960s. It inspired me to become a publisher and a writer/artist at the same time. Nothing was the same after that discovery: I made my first artist book shortly thereafter and I started publishing poetry just a few years later.
What books, magazines, or art ephemera do you keep in the space where you work?
My workspace doubles as a studio and a small library, which can accommodate only a year’s worth of book collecting at any given time (the overflow goes into storage). However, there are some staples that stay in the studio at all times for inspiration . . . this stash includes: “Hollywood Babylon 2,” “Poems” by Aram Saroyan, anything by Charles Willeford or Richard Stark, loose issues of The National Enquirer, David W. Mauerer’s “Language of the Underworld”, “Everybody’s Pixillated” by Russel Arundel, “Original Xerographies” by Bruno Munari, a few photocopied articles by Edit DeAk from Art-Rite and Cover Magazine, the “Oulipo Compendium,” “Geisha This” by Destroy All Monsters and “Smoke” by Lutz Bacher.
If you could only live with one art book what would it be?
Flux Year Box 2 This gem of a book could definitely keep me occupied for a lifetime given the multiple and open-ended readings / experience its provides.
What is your favorite item in the MoMA Library Collection? Why?
Secrets: Variable Piece 4 by Douglas Huebler (Printed Matter, 1973). I consider this often-overlooked publication a quintessential artist book. Simply put it is a collection (or as I like to think of it, an archive) of individuals’ secrets, which the artist culled throughout the Software Exhibition (1970, Jewish Museum) by asking audience members to write down personal secrets and drop them into a box. Visitors participating in the work also received a photocopy of a previously submitted admission. American proponents and pioneers of the artist book form, folks like Lucy Leopard and Dick Higgins, believed that the artist book as a medium had the potential to be bestsellers and sit among romance novels on books racks at the checkout line in grocery stores. This dream has never been truly realized, but speaks to the ambitious vision that many from the 1960s had for art books to truly become accessible to all, thus democratizing contemporary art. While many publishers and artists went on to produce publications that looked and felt like your average pedestrian paperback or hardcover, few were able to capture the content appeal contained within the bestseller. However, Humbler’s “Secrets” breaks through this boundary without sacrificing his overall project, which is to say, that he gives us what every beach reader wants (short concise stories that reveal seemingly spontaneous tawdry, banal or illegal admissions) under the umbrella of a rigorous conceptual framework. Formally more Novalis than Christie, Huebler has given us the answer key up front and in real life. We don't need to read the dailies, the gossip rags, or the true-crime books to find out that one participant “took $5,000 in black market money in Europe,” or that another makes his/her money “by acting in porno films.” Each fragment cuts to the chase without the burden of an extended form. Thousands of secrets (many of which double as wishful thinking or social commentary) are here in aggregate, creating a work that is both titillating and formulaic, or rather, entertaining and conceptual.