Liam Gillick - M/M "Malaga"

Published February 2006

Book description:
Format: 27 x 36 x 2 cm., handsewn
Interior: 17 folders
2 folders of 4 pages each, the first and the last, constructed of gray cardboard (400g).
The last folder contains a photograph by Liam Gillick, printed in four color offset on rough paper (frictionné 100g).
15 folders of 8 pages, the exterior pages are constructed of gray cardboard (400g) are printed in hand composed letterpress. The exterior pages are made out of watermarked security paper (80g) and are printed on one side in four-color offset and hand composed letterpress, these pages carry a perforation line. The other side of these pages are printed in silkscreen in up to ten colors per page.
Exterior: Book cover in green linen, (Dubletta), silkscreened in two colors, the book cover carries a high gloss sticker. The cover has flaps.
Slip case: Laser-cut aluminum book jacket, built in two pieces and held together with 4 black anodised "screwlocks"

William Morris would be proud. Art and craft, design and concept, unite in Malaga, a collaboration and conversation between British artist Liam Gillick and graphic designers, M/M, Paris. There’s really no reason to separate these worlds, according to the authors of this new project by TwoStarBooks. Gillick is known for his appropriation of modernist languages, ranging from twentieth century design icons to the work of artists such as Donald Judd. And M/M, Paris, invent images for recording artists, fashion designers, museums, and other clients interested in cultural branding. Gillick is interested in design, and Michael and Matthias, of M/M, are interested in art. Who’s to stop them? In Malaga, pithy phrases that are the titles of various Gillick works, have been designed in the manner of record covers by M/M. Gillick’s language pieces, poetry made concrete, are translated graphically. The book is printed in letterpress and multiple silkscreens, in groups of seventeen folders, on gray cardboard and watermarked security paper. The cover is in green linen, also bearing a color image, and varnished in a high gloss. This, in turn, has been encased in a box specially designed by Gillick, to allow the color image to peep through. AC/DC meets Kelmscott Press meets Ed Ruscha in the 21st century. On the next pages is a short exchange on the working process of the three makers. Bonne lecture.

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