“History of Art”. 2005. Artist book. 7 x 10 inches.
I selected one chapter from Janson’s History of Art. Depending on which direction the reader starts to browse, a different story of art will be revealed. From the front side one would find Janson’s text but with empty spaces instead of proper names, a discourse without artists. From the rear direction the pages contain just the artists’ names, creators without context.
Hausverstand. The Ultimate Guidebook (New York 2009) is an artist’s book, which consists of a carefully designed cover. The project introduces a hard-to-translate Austrian expression into English: Hausverstand, a word that describes basic common sense.
Hausverstand is a plea to trust our own intuition instead of other people’s advice. By visually resembling the many self-help books out on the market with their alluring promise of easy change, the book encourages us to think for ourselves: The Ultimate Guidebook.
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