The Everyday Press was founded in 2007 by artist Arnaud Desjardin to publish the work of visual artists as printed matter. If you would like to be kept informed about the activities of The Everyday Press please write to us at info@theeverydaypress.net including your full postal address.
From the 14th July - 18th September 2011 Arnaud Desjardin is exhibiting at the Bloomberg Space, London.
The Bloomberg website says of the project:
For Comma 38, artist and publisher Arnaud Desjardin will exhibit new, old, rare, and popular books while running an active printing press in Bloomberg Space. His COMMA commission, part of an ongoing project titled The Book on Books on Artists' Books, is intended to create an active and participatory review of current and historical practice. This exhibition is about both the display of books on artists' books and the production of a book about the books displayed. He intends to print a first edition, a book of books, a critical anthology and source book, alongside which a large range of books on artists' books will be displayed in a series of vitrines.
Artists' books have normally been sold and distributed through small networks of bookshops and galleries that often produce lists of available titles in printed form. The advent of the Internet has meant that information online has changed the nature of this documentary evidence. Desjardin's unique and extraordinary combination of display and production makes an exhibition that actively engages in both the making and disseminating in real time. The books themselves become both vehicles for information and documents that testify for artistic activity in its own right.
More information, including an essay by Clive Philpot, can be found on the Bloomberg site here.-
Arnaud Desjardin & The Everyday Press are exhibiting in The Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University, Knights Park, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 2QJ
24 February – 5 March 2011
Private View Wednesday, 23 February 5.30-8pm
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Arnaud Desjardin has recently produced two new books.
catalogue: The Everyday Press
Published by the Centre for Useless Splendour, London
January 2011
ISBN: 978-0-9563782-7-9and
Business As UsualPublication Studio
Arnaud Desjardin has created a book suitable for both cynics and idealists. These graphically bold, rhetorically economical expressions of both outrage and resignation are ready for any occasion where "business as usual" prevails.
January 2011
60 pp. 148 x 210mm
ISBN: 9780986676345
-On Wednesday 17th February, 2010 Arnaud Desjardin was the guest speaker at;
PUBLICATION AS PRACTICE # 3: BOOKS ON BOOKS Donlon Books / X Marks the Bökship
210 / Shop 3, Cambridge Heath Road London E2 9NA short course on concepts of artists’ publications
Talks start 7.10pm
Fee £2.50 per talk, pay on the nightHe spoke on the subject of the collection, documentation and classification of artists’ books and how the resulting publications ‘Books on Books’ create and control the history of the practice of artist publications.
The next session will be on Wednesday 3rd of March, guest speaker Fiona Banner.
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The Everyday Press presented three new books and one almost new book at the 2009 London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, Friday 25 September, 5pm - late, Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 September 11am - 6pm.
The three new books were:
Crosswords by Lolly Batty
by Lodovico Pignatti-Morano
The one almost new book was:
translated & typeset by Ian Whittlesea
Crosswords by Lolly Batty
An edition of 1000 copies, 500 with a black cover and 500 with a white cover
ISBN: 978-0-9561738-2-9
EUR 25 // £ 16
Super A - Epistle to Westphalia
In his newest book the Melanesian theorist and theologian SUPER A presents an insightful chronicle into the future of cargo cult. Extracted from the practices of his home island, New Hanover, SUPER A* elaborates on the basics of the cult and shows the difficult implications of simulation and over-identification today. While under the influence of US Army in the mid 40’s and 50’s the islanders of Melanesia developed an ostentatious practice mimicking the US culture, worshipping the wealth (cargo!) of the foreigners in the hope of its return. What became hereafter ridiculed by many for its naivety, the islanders cleared the indigenous forests, built faked airplanes and landing strips, even elected Lyndon Johnson to be their president, poses a challenge to the dialectics of economy and creativity, but is a model for marketing and political resistance, as Prof. Dr. Liebl shows in his epilogue. In this step-to-step manifesto the book draws from the rich heritage of cargo cult and shows its renewed promise for the 21st century. The book combines a richly illustrated part and an epistle to the land of Westphalia (Germany). For anyone involved directly or indirectly with cargo cult, this highly acclaimed book is essential reading.
*formerly known as the alter ego of stunt legend Evil Knievel.
Super A - Epistle to Westphalia
editor Jens Kabisch (www.perfektewelt.com)
112 pages 90 illustr.
epilogue by Prof. Dr. Franz Liebl
ISBN 978-0-9561738-1-2
EUR 35 // £ 25
A Rapha Continental Bootleg
by Lodovico Pignatti-Morano
An edition of 500 copies
ISBN: 978-0-9561738-3-6
EUR 10 // £ 6
On Friday 6th March 2009 The Everyday Press launched The Foundations of Judo by Yves Klein, translated and typeset by Ian Whittlesea.In 1952 the 24-year-old Yves Klein left Paris for Japan, to pursue his first love; not art but judo. After becoming one of very few Europeans to receive a coveted 4th dan black belt from the Kodokan in Tokyo, Klein returned to France and opened the Judo Académie de Paris. In 1954 the prestigious firm of Grasset published his book Les Fondements du Judo, illustrated with hundreds of photographs of Klein and the leading Japanese teachers demonstrating the six major Kata of judo.
Now this extraordinary work has finally been translated into English.
An edition of 1500 copies
Softback, with a colour dustjacket
256 pages, over 300 black & white photographs
A transimile of the 1954 1st edition
ISBN: 978-0-9561738-0-5
EUR 25 // £ 16
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On Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th May 2009 The Everyday Press, in association with the British Judo Association and The Budokwai, presented the Judo Académie de Paris, technical director Yves Klein, Kodokan 4th dan black belt, as part of The House of Fairy Tales at Tate Modern.
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Thank you. Merci.
