Reviews
The Stampographer by Vincent Sardon wins a prestigious 50 Books/50 Covers award!
The Stampographer was “one of the best covers of the fall [2017] season” said Steve Heller last year. This year it won a highly coveted award for cover design!
New York Times Best Photo Books 2017: Teju Cole picks Eternal Friendship
Teju Cole at the NEW YORK TIMES: “Anouck Durand’s photo-novel is bewildering, peculiar and smart, a matryoshka doll of a story … A brilliant rerouting of photography that reminds me of those strange documentaries by Werner Herzog, say, or Chris Marker.”
The Stampographer: Reviving the Dadaist Tradition of Artful Mischief
Juliana Halpert writes in BOOKFORUM: Vincent Sardon’s rubber-stamp artworks, on jolly display in The Stampographer, revive the Dadaist tradition of artful mischief.
John Cage Diary: Information is tactile
Andrew Durbin writes in BOMB: “Language, detail, individuals…rub against one another, stack together to form a kind of visual poetry that strives to give that information definite, personal shape.”
Robert Seydel: “True aesthetic ambidexterity”
James Gibbons writes THE PARIS REVIEW DAILY: “One of the uncanny successes of Seydel’s art lies in the way his sophistication and erudition are everywhere in evidence . . . and yet he could fashion . . . a body of work that harnesses . . . the affecting strangeness and elemental power of naive art.”
Suite Vénitienne: Intrusion of her own creation
“In her pursuit of strangers, Calle presents a kind of artistic Zeno’s paradox: the closer you get to someone else, the more you realize the distance separating you.” —Madeleine Schwartz in THE NY REVIEW OF BOOKS