Light Industry

Michael Snow's Cover to Cover, recently reissued by Light Industry and PrimaryInformation, makes an appearance on The Brooklyn Rail's 20 Best Art Books of 2020.

Cinematekets julkalender: Lucka 18! I Cinematekets julkalender listar redaktionen minnesvärda filmupplevelser från året som gått. Här ryms såväl gamla som nya f...ilmer, några sedda hemifrån och andra i biograf. Artonde luckan öppnas av Stefan Ramstedt, curator, som valt Cover to Cover (Michael Snow, 1975/2020) Light Industrys återpublicering av Michael Snows sedan lång tid tillbaka svåråtkomliga bok från 1975 är en kulturgärning av stora mått. Snows bok består enbart av fotografier och är tänkt att läsas från pärm till pärm. En kvasi-film enligt filmskaparen själv, och ett analogt motgift mot en av pandemin inducerad digital fatigue.

"Cover to Cover deserves a spot in the artist’s publishing hall of fame and should be up there with Ruscha, LeWitt and all those others as a truly unique approach to bookmaking."

"It’s the Last Year at Marienbad of photography books, transforming middle-class 1970s Toronto into a recursive dreamscape." - Randy Kennedy on Michael Snow's artist's book Cover to Cover, which we just republished with PrimaryInformation

Cover to Cover Michael Snow $30 To purchase: lightindustry.org/publications... Published by Light Industry and PrimaryInformation October 20, 2020 316 pages 7 x 9" Edition of 2,500 Managing Editor: James Hoff Managing Designer: Rick Myers ISBN: 9781734489712 "Michael Snow has challenged the reader's/viewer's notion of a book, indeed one's very notion of perception." - Benjamin Buchloh For years an out-of-print rarity, Michael Snow’s classic artist's book Cover to Cover is available once again, in a facsimile edition from Light Industry and Primary Information. Never bound by discipline, Snow has remarked that his sculptures were made by a musician, his films by a painter. Flipping through Cover to Cover, which is composed entirely of photographs in narrative sequence, one might describe it as a book made by a filmmaker. Snow himself has called the piece "a quasi-movie," structured around a precise recto-verso montage. Each page features a distinct moment, seen from one perspective on the front, and from a diametrically opposed angle on the back, occasionally pivoting, for instance, between interior and exterior spaces. This organizing principle is complicated by the fact that a given image might be a depiction of the physical environment surrounding the camera or, at other times, a photograph of a photograph. Midway through, the scene is inverted such that the volume must be turned upside-down to be looked at right-side up. The result is an elegant, disorienting study in simultaneity that allows the viewer to enter the work from either end. Cover to Cover was originally released by the Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1975. It was part of a now-legendary series of publications, overseen by Kasper König and later Benjamin Buchloh, that included titles by Michael Asher, Dara Birnbaum, Jenny Holzer, Donald Judd, Claes Oldenburg, Martha Rosler, and Yvonne Rainer, among others. Snow departed from the format of many of the press' projects, however, producing not a collection of writings, but rather a book that constitutes an artwork in itself. Michael Snow (b. 1928) is a Canadian artist whose multidisciplinary oeuvre includes painting, sculpture, video, film, sound, photography, drawing, writing, and music. His art explores the nature of perception, consciousness, language, and temporality, and has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Hara Museum of Art (Tokyo), the Museum of Modern Art (New York), and the Palais des Beaux Arts (Brussels). Snow’s key works include experimental films such as Wavelength (1967), Back and Forth (1969), and La Région Centrale (1971), as well as the large-scale public sculptures Flightstop (1979) and The Audience (1988-89). He is the recipient of the Gershon Iskowitz Prize (2011), the Guggenheim Fellowship (1972), the Order of Canada (1982), and the Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres, France (1995, 2011).

Now showing: THE LIVING ROOM by legendary Canadian artist and filmmaker MICHAEL SNOW. A reflection on the endless possibilities of an image and its metamorphose...s. This week only on www.lecinemaclub.com. To celebrate the reissue of his classic artist’s book Cover to Cover (www.lightindustry.org/publications) by Light Industry and PrimaryInformation.

Light Industry has always been buoyed by the generosity of artists, and we're thrilled to announce two editions by Louise Lawler, the sale of which will benefit our current efforts, such as publishing, as well as future projects. Lawler's work holds a special place in Light Industry's aesthetic imagination; indeed, she was responsible for one of the most memorable evenings we ever spent at the movies: http://216.92.175.147//artic/50/appeal-to-a-single-faculty Louise Lawler... Arriflex, 1981 Silver gelatin print 1 9/16 x 2 3/8 inches (image) Printed at a 45 degree angle on 8 x 10 paper Edition of 15, 3 APs Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York Louise Lawler Beckett, 1981 Silver gelatin print 1 9/16 x 2 3/8 inches (image) Printed at a 45 degree angle on 8 x 10 paper Edition of 15, 3 APs Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York To view these pieces in high resolution, or to purchase, please visit lightindustry.org/editions.