Artists’ books from Flanders and the Netherlands at Frankfurter Buchmesse
Interview with curators Luc Derycke and Roos van der Lint
The medium book is opening up, in the sense that it’s getting less and less functional. We replace it by the internet, apps and programmes. Purely functionally, we hardly need books anymore. Strangely enough, when a medium becomes obsolete, it creates a sort of symbolic space into which artists can enter.
Luc Derycke
The books are presented on a table designed by Hendrik-Jan Hunneman.
The selection was done by designer, publisher and curator Luc Derycke (Flemish selection) and art historian and art editor Roos van der Lint (Dutch selection). The latter published an essay on the subject (in Dutch). Watch an interview with them below to get a idea of the books they will bring to Frankfurt.
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This is why I find artists’ books interesting. Those other perspectives you can find in them, and that you can see how an artist really explores the boundaries and how you can represent your work.
Roos van der Lint
Click here to see the list of artists’ books selected for the Frankfurter Buchmesse.
While a typical publisher adapts content to a book, an artist will adapt the book to its content.
Luc Derycke
Read the curatorial statements by Luc Derycke and Roos van der Lint.
