Das Erbe der Schweiz
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Offset Litho
PMS 877 C
148 gsm
600x800mm
Pacesetter Matte Text FSC Mixed
Printed in Canada by Hemlock
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Edition of 100 only.
Each poster comes with a certificate of authenticity.
30€ (+ shipping)
2009 Yearly archive
Unit Editions launch party
22 September 2009, 6—8pm
Haunch of Venison, 6 Burlington Gardens, London W1S 3ET
Tony Brook and Adrian Shaughnessy
would like to invite you to the launch
of Unit Editions.
We will be signing the Special Edition of Studio Culture (and there will be beer).
If you want to come along please RSVP
to natasha@uniteditions.com
Democracy is a challenging new graphic design exhibition forming part of Design Event, the North East’s annual design festival. We’re aiming to create the ultimate democratic exhibition; we’re inviting designers and illustrators to submit their visual interpretation of the theme of Democracy and only those with the most votes will be featured in the exhibition. All qualifying entries are showcased on this website and you can then vote for your favourite. You can also leave comments on the work and get in contact with the artist/designer behind them.
This project is a unique chance for designers and artists to pit their work against peers from all over the world. It is also a great platform to promote your creative talent to thousands of art-lovers and design-fans engaging with Design Event 09.
There will be no curators in this groundbreaking exhibition: we’re applying the principle of ‘universal suffrage’ so that everyone can get involved and you can decide the piece(s) of work that you consider worthy of appearing in the final exhibition.
The Democracy exhibition will take place in Newcastle upon Tyne in October as part of Design Event 09. It will feature the very best of the work submitted to the project via this website, as voted by you. Votes can continue to be cast on the website and at the exhibition, so the art on display will continue to change, making this the most democratic exhibition ever.
Also launching at the exhibition will be the democracy book, a 244 page permanent record of the project.
Black dog publishing have kindly offered Swiss Legacy readers 40% off all orders of Art & Text book until December 31st 2009!
Just email jess@blackdogonline.com quoting “Swiss Legacy offer†in the subject line.
About the book:
The use of written language has been one of the most defining developments in twentieth century visual art. Art and Text is a unique and timely survey of this most contemporary and relevant artistic tool.
The use of text can be seen in some of the most seminal, avantgarde artwork of the twentieth century: René Magritte used text as an instrument for Surrealist subversion when he inscribed his painting with the statement “Ceci n’est pas une pipeâ€, and Dadaist artists used it to describe anti-art and anti-aesthetic sentiments.
Some of the most famous Conceptual artists of the 1960s and 1970s began to use written language as an artwork in itself, abandoning the juxtaposition of images for the first time. Artists such as John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, Martha Rosler and Joseph Kosuth—still some of the world’s most respected practitioners—helped codify the completely new boundaries of what constitutes art.
The expansive Art & Language group of artists and theorists also reconsidered the possibilities of linguistic art, and Art and Text features a new essay by esteemed member, Charles Harrison, alongside essays from Dave Beech and Will Hill.
Art and Text is a beautifully illustrated survey, documenting and contextualising the fascinating relationship between word and image for the first time, and showcasing the many artists who continue to use text and expand its possibilities, including Richard Prince, Raymond Pettibon, Mark Titchner, Roni Horn and Glenn Ligon.
