Royal Book Lodge, Montreuil
Royal Book Lodge brings together projects and publishing activities initiated in the 80s and 90s by artists Juli Susin and Véronique Bourgoin, which developed more widely in the early 2000s with an international network of collaborations with artist friends. The creation of artist’s books is the point of convergence that enables a dialogue between artists and synthesizes experiments with different media such as photography, ceramics, film, painting, sculpture, installations and writing. Royal Book Lodge brings together artist as Raisa Aid, Kai Althoff, André Butzer, Véronique Bourgoin, matali crasset, Sara Glaxia, Guðný Guðmundsdóttir, Andy Hope 1930, Daniel Johnston, Dorota Jurczak, Anne Lefebvre, Birgit Megerle, Jonathan Meese, Raymond Pettibon, Jason Rhoades, Julia Rublow, Ralph Rumney, Gianfranco Sanguinetti, Lucia Sotnikova, […] as well as reference works by Dick Bengtsson, Joseph Beuys, Bogdana Borowitch, Guy Debord, Marcel Duchamp, Julia Isídrez, Asger Jorn, Flores Balbuena aka Ogwa […].
The book “Royal Book Lodge” by art historian John C. Welchman, published by Hatje Cantz, 2023, presents the first in-depth study of over 35 years of Royal Book Lodge’s collaborative activity. He examines the context of the various artistic practices of Royal Book Lodge having as its nerve center the artist’s book, as well as the building of an important archive of works and documents. In 13 chapters, the book explores the various cultural and political geographies of Royal Book Lodge, particularly in the Paris suburb of Montreuil, which served as the RBL’s headquarters from 1989, stories of migrations and journeys on the edge of time, whether influenced by art or not, in Iceland, Paraguay, Eastern Europe, Los Angeles or the Ligurian coast in Italy. It addresses issues related to the construction of fiction, autobiography; the relationship of Royal Book Lodge with certain protagonists of the Situationist International; notions of remote control, the archaeology of violence and the potential of art as a “first aid kit”.
Royal Book Lodge presents the special edition (18 copies) of the book ROYAL BOOK LODGE
by John C. Welchman, with an original work by Juli Susin – a relief containing a fragment of the meteorite Campo del Cielo, and an original photograph by Véronique Bourgoin from the series Clouds. Each unique for each copy.
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