The Hundred Thousand Books of Bellatin [electronic resource].

Hatje Cantz 2012

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Mario Bellatin is a writer who wants his books always on hand, not only the texts but the books themselves. What he wants then is a section of his studio where at all times there will be thousands of physical copies, one hundred thousand, to be exact, of the books written during his lifetime. From now on he will count the years of his life in books and not in years as most do. He will turn books and not years, so to speak. He will compose one hundred titles, with a first edition of one thousand books each. The books will go on sale only if someone is interested in owning them; these books are made available, not marketed; they are in a sort of gelatinous state of exchange. This gelatinous state of exchange can be altered by Mario Bellatin, by a reader, or by circumstance. The only thing that cannot be modified in this gelatinous state of exchange is the phrase found on the second page of every book: This book is not free…
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Mario Bellatin
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
Chus Martínez
Bettina Funcke
Katrin Sauerländer
Cordelia Marten
Sam Frank
Philomena Mariani
Nikolaus G. Schneider
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