'Art Books': Exhibiting the Art Books

Although never applied as a final outcome, it was required of me to design possible means to exhibit my book-based projects. Given the two projects I ended up producing both worked on very different basis to each other, they could both be exhibited in very different ways. In some cases, they may be presented in a way that did not expect the viewer to 'read' them. With Book of Matches for example, one could further develop from the word-play by presenting the collection as if a legitimate set of books.

Through some feedback, it was suggested that the books could have been presented as a stack, to bring out the sculptural element of its construction.

Esquire's Look into Hell very much felt like a completely different matter in presentation. I had originally considered the possibility of how the book could be exhibited on a plinth, free to open and let people read through...

However, Esquire's... is far from straightforward is undoutably an akward one to read, due to it's construction and arrangement.

I shortly thought of how, in many ways the individual pages within Esquire's... may even stand as separate art works in their own right. So, a latter design featured the idea of presenting the book, surrounded by large-scaled images based on the depictions within the book.