At the occasion of the launch of “LINE UP” by Raffaella della Olga and published by Three Star Books, we are happy to present a selection of works from the artist's studio.

Photos: South Ho

Three Star, Paris returns to Hong Kong at the invitation of BOOKED: Tai Kwun Contemporary's Hong Kong Art Book Fair, bringing with them a special selection of artist's books and prints by Frank Benson, Cheryl Donegan and Kenneth Goldsmith, Cyprien Gaillard and Jonathan Monk.


Three Star Books is happy to celebrate the publication of “Peels” by Cheryl Donegan and Kenneth Goldsmith.
Along with the book presentation we presented the framed portfolio “ReDebords”, Kenneth Goldsmith’s contribution to Peels.


TANK, Shanghai invited Three Star Books for a presentation of five books in their museum during the art week of November 2019. The books presented were by John Baldessari, Maurizio Cattelan, Cheryl Donegan and Kenneth Goldsmith, Sylvie Fleury and Cyprien Gaillard.


Three Star, Paris is happy to present a selection of books and projects @ Jonathan Brown’s LEADAPRON starting February 16, 2019.
Artists on view: John Armleder, Lisa Anne Auerbach, John Baldessari, Matthew Brannon, Maurizio Cattelan, Sylvie Fleury, Liam Gillick, Parker Ito, Gabriel Kuri, Sean Micka, Jonathan Monk, Olivier Mosset, Carter Mull, Ebecho Muslimova, Simon Starling and Lawrence Weiner.
LEADAPRON is a fine art bookstore and gallery in West Hollywood, California.
 Perfectly located in a small house entirely dedicated to the presentation of curated presentations, LEADAPRON will concurrently present a selection of wall works, paintings, limited edition prints, photographs and original wall during Three Star, Paris’ presentation.

Photos: Ringo Cheung

Onestar/Three Star, Paris embarks on their maiden voyage to Hong Kong at the invitation of BOOKED: Tai Kwun Contemporary's Hong Kong Art Book Fair, bringing with them a special selection of artist's books and projects by: Elvire Bonduelle, Sébastien de Ganay, Sylvie Fleury, Liam Gillick, Jeppe Hein, Gabriel Kuri, Sean Micka, Matt Mullican, Mika Tajima, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Lawrence Weiner.

 And don't miss Onestar/Three Star's talk "The Artist is Everything" with John Tain (Head of Research at Asia Art Archive) taking place at 3PM on Sunday January 13, 2019 in Section 3F @ Booked.


A new work by Sylvie Fleury is born: the Cuddly Book

. Always pushing boundaries with a playful charm that oscillates between seduction and repulsion, art and fashion, the Cuddly Book by Sylvie Fleury adopts a materialistic language used by commercial industry to target the feminine market by pushing found or purchased items beyond the obvious with a sharp and often provocative humor.
Taking a departure from the artist’s faux fur projects of the early 90s that explored gender and ambivalence, Sylvie Fleury has created the Cuddly Book with pages that have been entirely conceived with a selection of intensely colored furs; an iconic superficial material of contemporary fashion that the artist has frequently employed.
These “pages” are bound with colored imitation leather, making this monumental book a definitively new and tantalizing work.

Photos: Ung Ruey Loon

PUBLISHING AS DISCOURSE is the title of the programme for Singapore Art Book Fair 2018, curated by NTU CCA Singapore, that explores the media of publishing as a discursive space. This series of conversations, presentations, and workshops brings together international publishers, writers and scholars, curators and artists who use the field of publishing as a critical form to engage with the arts.

Singapore Art Book Fair 2018 will be held in The Exhibition Hall, Block 43 Malan Road, Gillman Barracks, and all public programmes will take place in The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road.

At this occasion Three Star Books displayed two recent publications: Jonathan Monk’s 24 Dessins Isométriques and Gabriel Kuri's Reduce to Improper Fraction.

PUBLISHING ARTISTS’ BOOKS 
CASE STUDY PRESENTATIONS

Saturday, June 30, 2018
1:30 PM 5:00 PM

This event features case study presentations of artist-book projects selected by international and regional independent publishers. The speakers will introduce various collaborative projects between artists and publishers, providing insight into how artist books are conceptualised and how they develop into the final printed form.


We are happy to present Brooklyn-based artist Sean Micka from June 20th to September 8th 2018 - following the artist’s presentation in June 2016.
On this occasion Sean Micka will present Object/Subject/Painting:
• AN AMERICAN SILVER SOUP LADLE / • 41 AN AMERICAN SILVER SERVING SPOON, 2017; a series of drawings/collages with texts, spanning from 2015 to 2018; and six works from Background Paintings 2018, a new series created for this show.
 Along with these works, Three Star Books will display Object/Subject/Slides, 2017, a limited edition project from our series of highly crafted books by artists.

Object/Subject/Painting
The artist has rigorously painted and labored these past four years with oil on canvas employing tiny bristle and sable brushes to recreate selected objects from auction catalogue photos. Each new painting is a technical tour de force competing with the represented piece that is also the product of immense technical labor, art, and craftsmanship. Sean Micka’s paintings become new objects in themselves, a third object, and through this transformation and reanimation from image to object, are more desirable than the original object represented in the catalog photo itself.

Drawings/Collages
A selection of drawings/collages on paper used as preparatory material for previous Object/Subject/Paintings 
will be arranged and displayed upon the wooden walls of our exhibition space. The drawings/collages are adorned with textual descriptions of the original objects drawn from the auction catalog. These collages — never before presented — are artifacts of the artist’s own labor and craftwork, offering intimate insight into his creative process.

Backgrounds

This 2018 presentation introduces a new series of six smaller scale abstract paintings entitled, Backgrounds. 
In this series the artist isolates one of the compositional components from Object/Subject/Paintings (the colored backgrounds) and generates automatic compositions from the remaining colors, boundaries, edges, and corners. These color backgrounds are part of a predetermined system and photographic program used in the production of auction catalogs (as such, they are a form of surplus value).

As one can imagine, every auction catalogue object needs to be carefully and methodically photographed in a systematic way. Every object is individually “staged” upon a background of complementing color for image-capture. This background color system becomes an automatic method for generating compositions, fast and quick and ready-to-hand. The Backgrounds are works generated from these systems (and surplus value) while also paying homage the history of abstraction in painting as a conceptual system and modernist programmatic procedures from Josef Albers Homage to the Square to Blinky Palermo’s elusive colored abstract works.


Ultimately we are proud to display Object/Subject/Slides published by Three Star Books, 2017, a limited edition artist book, signed and numbered by the artist, comprising of ten individual folders, housed in a clothbound box. Each folder contains three elements: a transparent “slide”, a monochrome print, and a text document. Upon each “slide” is a UV printed picture of an object taken from the Object/Subject/Painting series.

These new works by Sean Micka demonstrate the artist’s remarkable freedom while keeping his research conceptually precise and solid.

Photos: Renato Parada

Viva Projects is a cultural outpost dedicated to contemporary art animated by Camilla Barella and Cecilia Tanure. From April to May 2018, Viva Projects invited Three Star Books to exhibit a selection of works at Viva's presentation rooms in the heart of São Paulo. This is the first time that Three Star books has been invited to exhibit in Brazil.
On the opening night - Monday April 9, 2018 -, a conversation about a possible defition of what is an artist book took place at Viva Projects between Christophe Boutin (co-founder of onestar press and Three Star Books), Luiz Vieira (co-founder of IKREK-SP) & Pedro Barbosa (art collector).


Mika Tajima’s Force Touch (Bracchium) and a selection of works from the artist’s Furniture Art series have been engaged for this site-specific installation at Three Star Books (Paris).

Mika Tajima’s recent works invoke technologies developed to control and affect bodies, both human and mechanic, wherein the tension created upon their respective encounters opens up the possibility to examine the elements of control technologies, and the ways in which they interact with our bodily senses.

For Force Touch (Bracchium), working in relation to the artist’s Meridian light works, Tajima utilizes hot tub jet nozzles that have been specifically placed to create a diagram delineating the flow of energy of the human body from the heart to the fingertips.
The installed jet nozzles serve as pressure points where energy would be released, seemingly connecting disparate parts of the body through invisible energy surges.

Here, the jet diagram fuses figuration with abstraction of the human in contemporary society, where the body is subjected to regimens that emphasise endurance, flexibility and performance through the partitioning of bodily space - where individual practices of freedom are intertwined with modes of domination.

Following “Force Touch (Bracchium)” Tajima presents a selection of three works from her “Furniture Art” series, “paintings” which are reverse spray painted acrylic frames wherein the atomized paint mist contained upon the transparent acrylic shell precipitates to form an opaque surface.

Each painting reflects the light and objects in the exhibition space while concealing itself from full visibility, appearing as gradients that glimpse the spaces beneath the surface. This series refers to Erik Satie’s musique d’ameublement (furniture music) - a series of infinitely repetitive compositions meant to serve as aural decor.


Three Star Books is happy to present Parker Ito’s “MASTERWORKS” (book and prints) at its Paris showroom alongside with the artist's new series of paintings: “CAPITOL RECORDS SHIT TOOTS”.

This 2016 series of paintings are made from photos that Parker Ito took from his apartment window overlooking Hollywood and its famous Capitol Records Tower. Captured on an early digital point-and-shoot camera, circa 2003, and reworked with Ito’s characteristic style, the image ‘resolution’ is low but contains these nearly-painterly quality due to the soft focus, blurred forms, etc.
 These eight “Capitol Records Shit Toots” are produced with a transfer process whereby Parker Ito captures an image, tiles the image, prints them on letter-sized paper, applies an acrylic medium to the support and then presses the image onto the linen. The paper is then scrubbed away leaving only the image on canvas. Finally the painting is  irregularly varnished.


Three Star Books’s fifth participation in the Art Editions section at Art Basel 47.
Featuring works and editions by John Armleder, John Baldessari, Parker Ito, Simon Fujiwara, Jonathan Monk, Slavs and Tatars, Simon Starling, Mika Tajima and Rirkrit Tiravanija on a chair designed by Sébastien de Ganay.


Post, Ebisu in Tokyo hosted Three Star Books for the publisher's first presentation in Japan.

Mika Tajima’s “Negative Entropy” premiered on this occasion, surrounded by a selection of publications and multiples by partner publishing house, onestar press.


Three Star Books was invited by Comme des Garçons to inhabit the space of its cultural project BIBLIOTHECA, a space to enjoy a selection of specially curated artist's books and editions about art, located on the 7th floor of Dover Street Market Ginza.


Photos: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano

Three Star Books’s fourth participation in the Art Editions section at Art Basel 45.
Featuring works and editions by John Armleder, Tauba Auerbach, Matthew Brannon, Sam Lewitt and Slavs and Tatars.


Three Star Books participated to the Independent Art fair 2014, featuring a booth fully dedicated to Matthew Brannon’s “An irresponsible biography of the actor Laurence Harvey’’ in addition to John Armleder’s “Black Cat’’ and glitter paintings.
Booth design and chairs by Sparrow Design, with the kind collaboration of Valerie Goodman Gallery.
Table by Jacques Jarrige.


Three Star Books and onestar press were invited to be part of Esther Schipper’s summer exhibition Sommeraustellung.
Works in this group show included Liam Gillick’s Pourquoi Travailler? series of carved oak boards alongside a selection of multiples and editions by onestar press. Photos: Andrea Rossetti

Photos: Sebastiana Pellion di Persano

Three Star Books’s third participation in the Art Editions section at Art Basel 44.
Featuring works and editions by Tauba Auerbach, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Matt Mullican, Blake Rayne, Slavs and Tatars, Simon Starling, Lawrence Weiner among others.


As a sequel to Rirkrit Tiravanija’s presentation in 2011, Simon Starling created a site-specific installation in the windows of the Gallery of Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa (San Marco Square), featuring Three Star Books and Westreich/Wagner Publications.
Starling placed four books by the two publishers in the windows of Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, treating the objects as if they were coveted goods not dissimilar to the luxury products on display throughout the same neighborhood in San Marco.
 One book was featured in each vitrine of the gallery, and presented in the center of the blackened window in a box lined with black velvet. The windows were delicately ornamented with gold leaf symbols - all common notations of printing and text – applied with a nonchalance that questions their actual materiality.
 The object in quotation marks, or being pointed to, was in fact a highly crafted and carefully conceived work of art, more sculpture than book. A play between media, communication, representation and the object itself to which Starling points, subtly referencing Italian signage traditions at the same time.
Three Star Books and Westreich/Wagner Publications wish to thank Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa for hosting the installation of this project.
The exhibited books were : 
John Armleder, "Black Cat" 2012 - Three Star Books
 James Beckett, "Works of James Beckett with constant interjections by Frank Key" 2013, Westreich/Wagner Publications 
Mike Kelley, "Reconstructed History" 1990, Westreich/Wagner Publications / Galerie Gisela Capitain
 Simon Starling, "27 Homemade Henningsen Lamps (+ 1 average Lamp)" 2011 - Three Star Books

Photos: Florian Kleinefenn

Three Star Books’s second participation in the Art Editions section at Art Basel 43.
Featuring works and editions by John Armleder, Maurizio Cattelan, Ryan Gander, Liam Gillick, Thomas Hirschhorn, Olivier Mosset.

Photos: Thomas Griesel

No longer confined to the traditional print studio, the field of printmaking has in recent years attracted a broad range of artists with a variety of skills, training, and interests, who have taken advantage of new, often highly efficient and user-friendly technologies. Print/Out explores how these artists have integrated the medium’s defining characteristics—reproducibility, collaboration, and ease of circulation—into some of the most innovative art practices of our time.
The earliest works featured in the exhibition coincide with the geopolitical transformations of the late 1980s and early 1990s, an emblematic point of departure in an examination of a medium that, because of its capacity to efficiently disseminate information, has often been linked to social change. Artists’ interventions in newspapers and magazines commissioned by the Vienna-based organization Museum in Progress, influential books by Ai Weiweithat were clandestinely distributed in China, and a billboard project by Felix Gonzalez-Torres (presented in the exhibition and throughout the city) all demonstrate the ability of prints to spread ideas across vast geographies.
For many artists in the last two decades, print has been an ideal medium for experimenting with appropriation and citation, blurring the boundaries between original and copy, real and fake, past and present. A series of screenprints by Martin Kippenberger opens the exhibition (see image at left), illustrating the endless recycling and transfer of motifs that prints make possible. Questioning the nature of copies versus originals, Danish artist group SUPERFLEX presentsCopy Light/Factory, a participatory lamp production workshop in which copies of iconic lamp designs are used to make new originals. Other artists, such as Rirkrit Tiravanija and Philippe Parreno, have used prints to recount, share, or reactivate earlier events and ephemeral artworks. And, today more than ever, artists are combining print techniques with digital technologies to deconstruct and alter images, turning them, as Trisha Donnelly has said of her work, into “a stutter of multiple images.”
Print/Out is divided into sections based on artists, publishers, or themes that represent new directions in the field of printmaking since the early 1990s. In the exhibition galleries, areas of dotted wallpaper punctuate these focused presentations and feature print series that have been broken up and distributed throughout the exhibition. The resulting mix reflects the ubiquity of prints in today’s cultural landscape and attests to the extraordinary vitality of a medium central to contemporary artistic practice.
(Source: MoMA, NY)
Organized by Christophe Cherix, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Chief Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books, with Kim Conaty, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books.

Photos: Florian Kleinefenn

Three Star Books and onestar press were invited by Galerie Perrotin to showcase a selection of artist’s books, bookshelves and unique projects in a temporary exhibition.


Three Star Books presented works by Maurizio Cattelan, Jonathan Monk, Olivier Mosset, Simon Starling, Lawrence Weiner as well as a large wall piece by Matt Mullican, taken from his Three Star Books’ project 88 Maps.

Photos: Florian Kleinefenn

Three Star Books’s first participation in the Art Editions section at Art Basel 42.
Featuring works and editions by Maurizio Cattelan, Jonathan Monk, Olivier Mosset, Matt Mullican, Tobias Rehberger, Simon Starling and Haim Steinbach.

Photos: Zeno Zotti

Three Star Books andWestreich/Wagner Publications presented a selection of their publications displayed in an installation designed by artist Rirkrit Tiravanija (b. 1961), and hosted by the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation in St. Mark's Square.

This terrarium installation depicted a wild landscape in which the books of both publishers co-habitated in a rocky terrain. The use of the terrarium is a loaded subject in contemporary art – one recalls the aquariums of Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst or perhaps the naturalist investigations of artist Mark Dion, and the shop window displays of Andy Warhol and the Pop generation.


88 MAPS by Matt Mullican presented at Three Star Books, Paris.
A series of multicolored canvases with all the plates from the book was displayed for the public together with the precious hand rubbed publication.

Photos: Zeno Zotti

Three Star Books “The Three Qattelan” was featured in Maurizio Cattelan’s show “Maurizio Cattelan. Contro le ideologie.”
Palazzo Reale, Milano, Sala del Trono.

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