Never Judge a Book
Book related artworks by Rachel Whiteread, Bill Woodrow, Anselm Kiefer, Fiona Banner, Harland Miller, Michael Craig-Martin, John Latham and others on show at Richard Booth’s Bookshop for this year’s Hay Festival.
Meadow Arts has curated an exhibition by leading artists on the book in art at Richard Booth’s iconic secondhand bookshop, opening for the launch of this year’s Hay Festival.
Many influential artists have made work that uses the book as an object, questioning its function and form, often rendering it unreadable; what is a book that can’t be read?
The works in this exhibition range from the poignant to the celebratory. Harland Miller’s playful re-mastering of the classic Penguin cover offers a Pop Art, sardonic and sometimes nostalgic take on literary themes, as does Michael Craig-Martin’s deceptively simple
Curator Anne de Charmant says, ‘For me it is a great testament to the continued power of the printed, versus the digital, word, that so many artists still see the book as an incredibly potent symbol, not just to be revered, but questioned and endlessly explored. This exhibition is an eye- opener from that point of view.’
Image: Jonathan Callan, Idiot Compression. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Stefan Handy.
Featured Artists
Sterly & Snell
Sterly & Snell exhibited in Never Judge a Book, Richard Booth’s Bookshop, 2016. Image: Sterly & Snell, Sound Books, 2015.…
Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread exhibited in Never Judge a Book, Richard Booth’s Bookshop, 2016. Image: Rachel Whiteread, Untitled (Black Books). Black Plastic…
Michael Craig-Martin
Michael Craig-Martin exhibited in Never Judge a Book, Richard Booth’s Bookshop, 2016, and Building Site, Hardwick Hall, 2014. Image: Michael Craig-Martin,…
Mark Richards
Mark Richards exhibited in Never Judge a Book, Richard Booth’s Bookshop, 2016; and In Another Light, Croft Castle, 2015, commissioned for…
Luke Fowler
Luke Fowler exhibited in Never Judge a Book, Richard Booth’s Bookshop, 2016. Image: Luke Fowler, Lester (Tenement Films), 16mm film,…
Jonathan Callan
Jonathan Callan exhibited in Never Judge a Book, Richard Booth’s Bookshop, 2016, commissioned by Meadow Arts. Image: Jonathan Callan, Idiot…
John Latham
John Latham exhibited in Never Judge a Book, Richard Booth’s Bookshop, 2016. Image: John Latham, Book in processed oil shale…
Harland Miller
Harland Miller exhibited in Never Judge a Book, Richard Booth’s Bookshop, 2016. Image: Harland Miller, Rags to Polyester. Giclee print…
Fiona Banner
Fiona Banner exhibited in Building Site, Hardwick Hall, 2014, commissioned in part by Meadow Arts, and Never Judge a Book, Richard Booth’s…
Bill Woodrow
Bill Woodrow exhibited in Never Judge a Book, Richard Booth’s Bookshop, 2016. Image: Bill Woodrow, Open Book. Bronze,…
Bernard Aubertin
Bernard Aubertin exhibited in Never Judge a Book, Richard Booth’s Bookshop, 2016. Image: Bernard Aubertin, Livre Brule (on red), 1974.…
Anselm Kiefer
Anselm Kiefer exhibited in Never Judge a Book, Richard Booth’s Bookshop, 2016. Image: Anselm Kiefer, Archimedes, 2011. Graphite, charcoal…
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