WORKS FOR AMBRUNO
a book of hours
for the Intervals project 2024
A secular, visual form of the traditional contemplative aid, exploring our experience of time with tints of black, cyan and magenta lightly marking the twenty-four hours of the day. On the reverse an alternative meditation: the phrase marking time making time.
a book of hours | double-sided concertina print | h240mm x w740mm unfolded; h240 x w80mm folded | printed inkjet on Bockingford watercolour 300gsm | handfolded | created for the AMBruno INTERVALS project, 2024 | can be read in the hands page by page or stood on a surface | tied loosely with clear elastic | open edition | £25 | purchase
The selector was Sarah Bodman. Sarah is Associate Professor for Artists’ Books at the Centre for Print Research (CFPR), University of the West of England, Bristol, where she runs projects investigating and promoting contemporary book arts. She is the editor of the Artist’s Book Yearbook a biennial reference publication on contemporary book arts, published at UWE by Impact Press, and also edits the Book Arts Newsletter and The Blue Notebook journal for artists’ books.
rhythm lines
for the Rhythm project 2023
A playful reading experience of rhythmically repeating and interacting visual components in a process of gradual revelation and escalation. Horizontal sight-lines explore how the human eye is alerted and attuned to developments in visual rhythms as each page is turned.
rhythm lines | h 80mm x w 370mm | printed inkjet on Bockingford watercolour 190gsm | handbound and handtorn | created for the AMBruno RHYTHM project, 2023 | open edition | £30 | purchase
The selector was Catriona Gourlay, Assistant Curator, Word and Image at the National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum. Her recent V&A display, Landscape and Language in Artists’ Books, explored how artists since the 1960s have used thought-provoking combinations of word and image to respond to landscape or evoke imaginary places.
MA[RGINS]
for the Margins project 2022
Margin: a space between spine and text. Ma: the Japanese concept of negative space. The context is torn away leaving the margins to stand on their own terms, perhaps stripping them of meaning. What is left? A blank book; a sculptural exploration of redundancy or emptiness; suggestive of loss, censorship, yet a meditation on the value inherent in the overlooked spaces of the page.
MA[RGINS] | h 280mm x w 60mm | cover printed inkjet on Bockingford watercolour 300gsm | handbound and handtorn | created for the AMBruno MARGINS project, 2022 | open edition | £25 | purchase
Regine is a Berlin-based curator and art historian with a research focus on exhibition history, artists’ publications, conceptualism and contemporary photography. She works as a research fellow in the theory department of the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig.
barely audible | a book of quiet
for the Volume project 2021
0dB represents the threshold of human hearing. Sounds registering 10dB are classified as ‘barely audible’, a soundscape perceived as quiet. This book explores the ‘volume’ or ‘substance’ that is ‘quiet’.
A blank page or book is a container holding emptiness, lacking visual and aural noise. In the tradition of ‘blank’ books, the blankness occupies the page, giving the book its meaning both experientially and conceptually.
The book has eight facing and eight verso pages. Each facing page is blank. Every other verso contains a faintly visible phrase representing a sound given in decibel charts as ‘barely audible’: ‘a breath’, ‘a pin dropping’, ‘a leaf falling’, and finally, imagined for this book: ‘a page gently turned’. The reader turns each page, becoming quieter in the process, meeting each phrase then an intervening blankness, witnessing their own quietened actions in the final phrase. The book contains quiet, is quiet, and induces quiet.
barely audible a book of quiet | h 120mm x w 370mm, 20pp | printed inkjet on Bockingford watercolour 190gsm | handbound | created for the AMBruno VOLUME project, 2021 | open edition | £25 | purchase
Selected by Richard Price for AMBruno
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GLIMPSED IN PASSING
for the COVER project 2018
book cover | h 175mm x w 115mm | printed inkjet on Bockingford watercolour paper 300g | created for the AMBruno COVER project, 2018 | open edition | £15 | buy
CLASSIC POEMS
for the [sic] project 2017
book | h 150mm x w 150mm; 16 pages | contains 12 poems, each with a single word alteration | cover printed inkjet on Bockingford watercolour paper 300g | handbound with linen thread | created for the AMBruno [sic] project, 2017 | open edition | £10 | buy
RED
for the RED project 2015
booklet | h 190mm x w 180mm | two sheets, printed with three images (including cover image); printed inkjet on Bockingford inkjet watercolour paper 190g | handbound with linen thread | created for the AMBruno RED project, 2015 | £15 | buy
10% | 15%
for the lines project 2013
book | h 190mm x w 180mm; 12 pages, including covers | each facing page (including cover) printed to edge with two blocks of a tint of black, 10% and 15%; the size of blocks changes progressively as the pages turn, moving in 2.5 cm increments, thus moving the unprinted ‘line’ up the page | printed inkjet on Bockingford watercolour paper 300g | handbound with linen thread | created for the AMBruno Lines project on the occasion of the Whitechapel Art Book Fair 2013 | limited edition of 25 | £20 | buy
1-16%
for the 16 project 2013
book | h 160mm x w 170mm; 16 pages, including covers | each page printed to edge with a tint of black, starting on the front cover with 1% and increasing by 1% with each page, through to 16% on the back cover | printed inkjet on Bockingford watercolour paper 300g | handbound with linen thread | created for the AMBruno 16 project, 2013 | with simple folder cover | limited edition of 16 | reprint 2020 | £20 | buy
