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DiggBook Release: "LE MONTRACHET"
October 19, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Liam Gillick
Friedrich Petzel Gallery
535 W 22nd StFriedrich Petzel gallery is pleased to announce the launch of the first limited edition book by rockypoint press, Le Montrachet.
Le Montrachet is the subtle and stunning result of a yearlong collaboration between fiction writer Heather McGowan and the artist, Liam Gillick. Liam has long been known for his process oriented and theoretically driven inter-disciplinary approach to art making; spanning architecture, design, criticism and writing his work flirts with notions of public and private space, leading us to question and reassess ideas of self and the multi-faceted systems which operate on us. His ongoing interest in collaboration is evident in previous works, notably in Annlee You Proposes, which character was offered to him by his longtime friend and oft collaborator, Philippe Parreno.
Heather McGowan’s first novel, Schooling received wide critical acclaim; her new book Duchess of Nothing is garnering praise for its strong idiosyncratic narrative voice. In what countless reviewers have called a stream-of conciousness style, McGowan’s command of the slipperiness of language and thus of self is such that is not often seen in these days of plain-clothes narrative. She manages to respect the reader enough to not answer the unanswerable: the absence, longing and desire at the heart of McGowan’s writing match the desire inherent in the act of reading. Through her precisely fashioned prose-style McGowan is able to touch upon and titillate us with the ambiguities of self.
Le Montrachet is a gorgeous book. Fantastically difficult in the execution (Christian Zickler had to create ten separate screens for each of the 66 pages), it was this complexity that effectively rendered the subtlety of tonal changes in Liam’s design of the text. The book is made up of a series of fictionalized diary entries, engaging and moving, a fast paced ride through the disintegration of a relationship: the tonal shift in the text echoing the shifts in the narrator’s psyche as she attempts to make sense of the depth of her loss. The gradation gives voice to her interior world: from adamant black to the nearly inaudible whisper of near white on each page: The formal and the psychic joining forces to produce a singular effect. Images of the architecture the narrator inhabits are interspersed throughout the book and serve to confine as well as give form to the dismantling of her voice.
rockypoint press was started three years ago by Veronica Gonzalez, Christian Zickler, Jorge Pardo and Brian Butler. Engendered by our joint enthusiasm for collaboration, odd pairings, and unscripted results our initial cross-genre interests have now culminated in the production of beautifully crafted books. For a week at the end of every summer Jorge and Veronica invite an artist and a writer, along with Brian and Christian to their home on Long Island. It is at this weeklong gathering that we all discuss the coming project and the writer and artist get to know each other. Over the course of the following fall and winter they jointly create a book which is produced by rockypoint. Finally, the limited edition (20 with 6 artists proofs) of 20x14 books is bound in Frankfurt in the spring of the following year, even as we gear up for the following book. Philippe Parreno and Mark von Schlegell are at work on our second book, and we have begun discussion with John Baldessari and Nick Flynn for number three. There are seven more pairings in the works for a total of ten books, a decade long of fantastic limited edition books.
Veronica Gonzalez is a writer living in Los Angeles; her novel Twin Time: or, how death befell me is forthcoming from Semiotext(e) in Fall ’07. Christian Zickler is a master silk-screener who has worked extensively with artists, including Rosemarie Trockel, Pae White and Tobias Rehberger. Jorge Pardo shows at Friedrich Petzel Gallery in New York, Neugerriemschneider in Berlin and Haunch of Venison in London. Brian Butler runs 1301PE and is director of Artspace in New Zealand.
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