Galerie Largeness World of Art

Jacob, Luis and [et alii]. Galerie Largeness World of Art. s.l.: s.n..

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Abstract (English)

"Galerie Largeness World of Art was a project initiated in September 1996. Each instalment of Galerie Largeness featured works by various artists produced especially for the Galerie. In the span of its thirty issues, Galerie Largeness presented work by some 90 artists, involving various solo and group exhibitions, 5 guest-curated projects, 5 audio-arts projects, one prayer project, one mail-art project, and 3 special events featuring video screenings and performances. [...]

Galerie Largeness may reasonably appear to be an art gallery, but one that in its form remained both portable and mutable. Galerie Largeness may appear to be a magazine, but one whose content did not function as reportage, but was in every case work prepared by artists especially for publication at the Galerie. Galerie Largeness may appear to be an archive, in that it presented in a unified context the work characteristic of a determinate time and place. But it was an archive whose scope was neither documentary nor retrospective: the life of Largeness was about the involvement it required on the part of the dozens and dozens of artists and artist-curators who participated in it over the years, and the everyday strategies and negotiations it required to sustain it. [...]" -- Contributor's website.

Types:	Artists' publications > Multiples ; Periodicals > Artist's periodical
All Contributors:	Jacob, Luis (Author); [et alii]
Dossier:	410 - JACOB, LUIS
Location:	COLLECTIONS SPÉCIALES - DEMANDER À L'ACCUEIL POUR CONSULTATION
Collation:	30 artist's multiples : ill. (some col.) ; + 1 archival box (45 x 45 x 20 cm) + 6 trading cards (11 x 14 cm)
Language of Publication:	English; French
Publishers:	s.l.: s.n.
Keywords:	ART GALLERY; ART MILIEU; MINIATURE; MULTIPLE; PERIODICAL
Copyright Statement:	Luis Jacob, the artists and the authors
Date Description:	[14 Sept. 1996 - 7 Oct. 2002]
Notes:	ISSN : 1206-0097
Deposited by:	Artexte Catalogueur
Date Deposited:	02 Dec 2016 18:31
Last Modified:	08 Dec 2016 22:25
URI:	http://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/27917

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