Shop within the Shop
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WORK DATA
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Category:
ARTWORK
Type:
installation art
Keywords:
consumerism / installation / public art / space / typography
Creation Date:
1993-11-01 - 1993-11-05
Description:
The new books placed on a shelf of the book shop are covered with dust-jackets each showing part of a photograph. It is like a puzzle, the books together give the whole picture. In the picture – based on a suggestion by Tamás St. Auby – we see the interior of a butcher's shop. The photo is scaled one to one. I would like to ask the audience to keep to the accepted norms of behaviour in a book shop. In order to facilitate this, the 'Shop within the Shop' offers the following possibilities: 1. The viewer is allowed to choose books from among those covered with a dustjacket (the placement of the books on the shelf can be read off the maps hanging there). Thus the picture receives a peculiar spatial structure. 2. There is also the possibility of buying the books covered with dust-jackets. So the picture becomes fragmentary and possibly disappears. 3. Naturally it is possible to ignore the picture altogether and to choose any other book. (B.B.)
More Information
Original Title (Hungarian):
Szaküzlet a szaküzletben
Location:
Írók Boltja Könyvesbolt, Budapest / Writers' Bookshop, Budapest
Additional Information:
Writers' Bookshop (45 Andrássy Street, Budapest), book dedication on November 4, 1993.
"I have never liked going to the butcher's, but it always had a strange effect on me when I saw it on photographs." K.I.
"It was the first time in my life that I stole something in a book shop." P.I.
"I turned my back to the shop assistant and wrote my name into all eleven Greek mythologies." G.S.
Sixty covers on sixty books, color xerox, paper.
"I have never liked going to the butcher's, but it always had a strange effect on me when I saw it on photographs." K.I.
"It was the first time in my life that I stole something in a book shop." P.I.
"I turned my back to the shop assistant and wrote my name into all eleven Greek mythologies." G.S.
Sixty covers on sixty books, color xerox, paper.
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