Main entry:

Kuri, Gabriel, 1970- artist.

Title & Author:

Consummation breakdown / Gabriel Kuri

Publication:

Paris : Onestar Press, 2011

Description:

1 online resource (76 PDF pages) : illustrations

Restrictions:

Open access

Notes:
"Published 2011; 140 x 225 mm; 150 pages; Cover: Paperback, color, glossy finish; Binding: glue bound; Interior: black and white; Edition limited to 250 numbered copies"--Publisher's description
"Consummation Breakdown is a book with two front covers which THEREFORE offers two-directional reading. If read following one of the covers, this book shows the facsimile of a chronological arrangement: ordinary till receipts collected by the artist AND folded over the bottom of the right page, concealing the last bit of information WHICH IN TURN shows on the the left page overleaf. Flicking the pages backwards and upside down (following the other cover), one can read an index of phrases terminating each transaction, on the corresponding upright ends of each receipt. Gabriel Kuri"--Publisher's Web site
"First edition limited to 250 numbered copies"--Colophon
Title from PDF page 2

Summary:

"Consummation Breakdown is a book with two front covers which THEREFORE offers two-directional reading. If read following one of the covers, this book shows the facsimile of a chronological arrangement: ordinary till receipts collected by the artist AND folded over the bottom of the right page, concealing the last bit of information WHICH IN TURN shows on the the left page overleaf. Flicking the pages backwards and upside down (following the other cover), one can read an index of phrases terminating each transaction, on the corresponding upright ends of each receipt."-- provided by distributor.

Resources:
Full text PDF

Subject:

Capital movements.
Mouvements de capitaux.

Form/genre:

Artists' books.
PDF.
artists' books (books)
Livres d'artistes.

Added entries:

Onestar Press, publisher.