Fiona Banner
In 1998 Fiona Banner exhibited her huge polystyrene punctuation marks at the Tate Britain. Until that time she was best known for her wordscapes or still films, densely verbal descriptions of entire films. Now her drawings and sculptures deal in words without saying anything. Punctuation marks interrupt words.
In Banner’s hands full stops become abstract sculptures, each containing their own highly individual characteristics. “TABLE STOPS” is a collection of seven ceramic full stops. Each full stop is taken from a different font: Klang, Slipstream, Avant Garde, Nuptial, Formata, Optical and Courier. The full stops are all enlarged to the same scale, though each is a very different size and shape.
” ‘TABLE STOPS’ are abstract points of focus. Like tableware, or executive toys, they are to be handled and moved around. The act of arranging and rearranging them enacts a silent conversation”, says Fiona Banner.
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Fiona Banner
Book 1/1
Edition: 65
Materials: block print on mirror card
Size: 45 x 64 cms
Launch price: £450 plus VAT
Each print in this edition, Book 1/1, is the same and yet each is unique. Each one has its own ISBN number and is registered under its own individual title. Each one of the edition is therefore an official publication and each is an edition in, and only of, itself. An edition of one…a book reduced to a reference, purely
an imagined space.
Every book published anywhere in the world today carries its own, identifiable ISBN (International Standard Book Number) number. Since 2007 ISBNs have contained 13 digits. Each print in this edition has its own identifiable ISBN number just as every edition of every book published carries its own number.
Fiona Banner questions the currency of the multiple or limited edition. She has explored many of these issues in her work to date. Words, punctuation and copyright have been recurring themes within her work. Through The Vanity Press, the publishing company she set up in 1994, she has explored these subjects using the democratic medium of print.
Printed on reflective mirror card, Book 1/1 is a one-page, one-off book with a story that the viewer cannot escape: reflected in the surface, the viewer, the time and space of the artwork, is its subject.
