Absalon, Yaacov Agam, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Lygia Clark, Naum Gabo, Rupprecht Geiger, Matt Montini, Bruno Munari & Leo Lionni, Ezra Orion, Chana Orloff, David Perlov, Dorothea Rockburne.

A limited edition book by Yonatan Vinitsky in the format of a completed sticker album.

Inspired by popular French and Belgium sticker albums, the book inhabits a place between an artist’s book and historical documentation and re-enactment in the form of a large-scale completed sticker album sculpture. Vinitsky’s publication examines the studios of 14 international artists of the 20th Century, through the collaboration of more than 40 artists, writers, designers, photographers, architects and other related practitioners, working together under the roof of the book.

The 14 studios were selected by Vinitsky from his personal list of art heroes. The book is constructed from newly commissioned texts and visual projects; without the use of any archival material, using performance, illustration, 3D models, photography, scanning, painting, sculpture and various re-enactments in order to ask what the artist studio means today.

Contributors:
David Adika, François Aubart, Ellie Armon Azoulay, Ariella Azoulay, Ewa Bickels, Alice Channer, Héléna de Laurens, Sophie Delpeux, Vanessa Desclaux, Oliver Evans, Jacob Farrell, Ryan Gander, Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Mark Higden, Sam Hryckow, Benjamin Lafore  & Sébastien Martinez-Barat, Myriam Lefkowitz, Achim Lengerer, Cédric Libert, Mathieu Loctin, Rebecca May Marston & Barnie Askew Page, Susan Meiselas, Aurélien Mole, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Ourie Ophir Azoulay, Émile M. Ouroumov, Janina Pedan, Florent Pierre, Pierre-Alain Poirier, Élodie Royer & Yoann Gourmel, Karin Ruggaber, Tom Shay, Moran Shoub, Sam Thorne, Ben Toms, Emilia Vinitsky Armon, Jonathan P. Watts, Hugo Wheeler, Jennifer Winkworth, Raphaël Zarka.

Beyond a simple fascination for NASA, the manual is of interest for several reasons:
— It is an exhaustive presentation of visual identity – from letterheads to the markings on the space shuttle Discovery
— and thus allows the reader to apprehend the different formal, political and technical scales of the use of signs.
— The clarity of its texts which guided the personnel responsible for producing new documents contrasts sharply with the mainstream vocabulary in the communications field today.
— As an object, it is worthy of the interest it has created. It demonstrates the ambition and care taken in its presentation. Its format facilitates manipulation to ensure the organization, comprehension and implementation of the instructions and propositions it contains.

Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (1923-2014) is an Ivorian artist, poet, “re-searcher”, creator and inventor of the Bété syllabary. In 1989, he was thrust to the front of the international artistic scene during the Magiciens de la terre exhibition (May 18 – August 14, 1989, Centre Georges Pompidou, Grande Halle de La Villette, Paris). Introduced alongside a hundred other artists from all over the world, he would subsequently become world famous for his drawings on maps enhanced with colored pencil.
But in May of that year, Bruly Bouabré still cherished quite a different dream: that of becoming a writer. As he was getting ready to fly to Paris, leaving African soil for the first time, the poet was commissioned by his friends Odile and Georges Courrèges (then director of the French Cultural Center of Abidjan) to write the story of his trip. This is how, a few weeks after his return, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré would submit his “report” of 325 handwritten pages produced in “33 days”, in which he gleefully recounts his journey – at times punctuated by insignificant events  – while questioning the place of Man in Western society.
Until now, this tale of “a blind man in Paris,” as he first was to call it, had remained unpublished. The text – of pleasing findings and enchanting language – is that of an observer seeking to understand a changing world, with his own culture as a starting point. Imbued with such freedom and desire for identification and documentation, which characterize the work of this encyclopedic creator, the book is a very unique testimony to a milestone in the history of contemporary art.
Initiated by Odile and Georges Courrèges, who provided publishers with a copy of the manuscript entrusted to them by the artist, the project for this publication was also made possible thanks to André Magnin, who provided the original manuscript.

Foreword by Jean-Hubert Martin