A Round Table, a Fire Crackles, a Storm Rages in the Darkness Outside, Rain Lashes Against the Window
Unfold is a series of artist’s publications put out by The Green Box to allow artists to make books using a format that literally unfolds from an eight-page booklet into a two-sided poster. Working within these simple structural guidelines, artists are free to develop the concept and design of their projects, which are part portable exhibition, part artist’s book.
Ryan Gander’s piece makes use of the two-sided poster. On the recto: an elegantly conceived faded blue design, created by exposing paper to sunlight for a duration of time that coincided with the time it took the artist to devise a plan for an exhibition at Villa Arson in Nice. On the verso: 19 lines of text outlining a plan for a Metaverse exhibition by Spike Milligan, written by a forensic graphologist in Milligan’s own handwriting as sampled from a diary entry dated 1972.
