Caline Aoun / Niall De Buitléar / Guestroom / Vera Klute
“It has (...) been the millennium of the book, in that it has seen the object we call the book take on the form now familiar to us. Perhaps it is a sign of our millennium’s end that we frequently wonder what will happen to literature and books in the so-called post-industrial era of technology” (Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium, 1985).
paperplane responds to recent negotiations between European editors and an internet search engine regarding a lucrative and legislated agreement on the digitization of the world’s books. Fears that the world’s ‘last library’ might be controlled as a commercial enterprise have sparked debate about the future of literature in light of the proliferation of virtual records as well as the simultaneous decline of readership. Digitization allows for more practical and accessible circulation of texts and for new life to be breathed into forgotten publications. Consequently, however, the book in its physical form becomes a rarefied object of obsolete function.
Occupy Space, Thomas Street, Limerick City
18 February - 21 March 2010
Image: detail from Fleet (2010) by Niall De Buitléar
About the artists:
Caline Aoun's work revolves around the processes of saturation and dissipation - the points at which information appears to recede into nothingness. She studied at Central Saint Martins and the Royal Academy in London where she lives and works. Recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition at Sartorial Gallery and group exhibitions at Store Gallery and Limoncello (all 2009).
Niall De Buitlear is the current recipient of the Red Stables Irish Residential Studio award and was recently awarded the Wexford Arts Centre's Emerging Artist Award. He will present two works related to series of found objects, including the on-going Found Bookmark Archive. Recent exhibitions include solos at G126 (2008) and the LAB (2008), and group shows at Green On Red Gallery (2009), Lewis Glucksman Gallery (2008) and the CAC, Vilnius (2007).
Guestroom are Ruth Höflich and Maria Benjamin. Since 2003, they have exhibited extensively in the UK, Germany, Austria, Luxembourg and the United States . Commissioned by the Grizedale Arts for AFoundation, Guestroom will present a series of eight video portraits titled 'The Librarians' concerned with personal libraries and collections. The Librarians are Tom McCarthy, Michael Leslie, Lorenza Boisi, Shaun Pubis, Pablo Bronstein, Rebecca Bligh, Isabel Waidner and Adam Sutherland.
Vera Klute was born in Germany but lives and works in Dublin . She graduated from the Institute of Art Design and Technology in 2006, and has exhibited widely both in Ireland and internationally since. In 2009 she had a solo exhibition at the Wexford Arts Centre and participated in shows in Dublin, Paris and Rotterdam .
Caline Aoun: detail from Sliding Gazes (2010) suite of unique inkjet prints on Somerset paper, 138.9x97.8cm
Caline Aoun: installation image of Sliding Gazes (2010) and Brighter Beams (2010)
Vera Klute: detail of Swatter (2009), fly swatters, umbrella spokes, wood, motor, 70x70x70cm, photograph courtesy of Miranda Driscoll
Guestroom: installation image of The Librarians (2008) 8 video portraits, 107 mins duration
