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🌐Hola mundo! It's a pleasure to finally hold these catalogues, freshly printed in limited edition and today available on sale at Libros Mutantes. Come say hi from 5pm! 🕳

After a long time, we are glad to announce that Athanor n. 5 Catalogue will be officially launched at Libros Mutantes Art Book Fair, in Madrid from 20th to 22nd April 2018, and it will be available for sale. See you soon!

You can still enjoy the online exhibitions on http://www.athanor.world/5/

Many thanks to all of our contributors
Giorgio Ruggeri Jeroen Bouweriks Kasper Lecnim Nicolas Vamvouklis Paolo Patelli Antoine Lefebvre Editions Farah Khelil Ryota Matsumoto Furen Dai Carla Rak Alberto Cuteri Udit Mahajan Fabian Yürgen Leandro Estrella R. Prost Nicholas Lockyer Tyler Henry

http://librosmutantes.com/exhibitors-18/

Introducing “Copy Paste Culture”
http://www.athanor.world/5/

The fourth web exhibition featured in Athanor №5, presents four projects which rely in different ways on appropriation practices such as the copy or the remix, in order to propose new — yet mediated by the original — artistic contents.

— Kasper Lecnim, Malevich’s Black Square turned 400 times
— Carla Rak, Collage #1
— Nicholas Lockyer, Tombstone
— Alberto Cuteri, Opening Fold

Still ongoing on our website: Collecting Queerly, the log by Nicolas Vamvouklis initiated as part of Athanor's exhibition "Mythologies of Accumulation".

Starting from historical imagery depicting collectors and their possessions, the log outlines the turbulent existence of the Greek collector and gallerist Alexandre Iolas, the relationship with his collection and the villa which housed it.

Read the log at this link:
http://www.athanor.world/5/vamvouklis_collecting-queerly.html

Carla Rak
ARTIFACTS
2016—2017

Artifacts by Italian visual artist Carla Rak takes into account a more subtle process of corruption. Since its very beginning, photography has been considered a perfect medium to archive our memories. With the digital shift, a much wider amount of memories are collected and stored on binary files on our machine, yet their nature has become more ephemeral and short–lived. Referring to the inconvenient occurrence of digital damage, the artist has intentionally corrupted a series of still–life images from the archive of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. As these digital reproductions are accessed with an ordinary text editor, they reveal their true nature of nothing more than a sequence of words set in a machine language. Rak nonsensically operates on this unknown language, making minor edits that cause images to lose some details, colors, tones. Still readable by machines, they are decaying, losing identity. As the disintegrating flowers in seventeenth–century painting were an allegory of human frailty and transience, these corrupted artifacts aim to recognize how feeble our memories could be in the digital milieu. Rak finally reproduces her decomposed images on big sized lambda prints, as a symbolic gesture to deliver their memory again to the realm of physicality.

http://www.athanor.world/5/rak_artifacts.html

Antoine Lefebvre Editions e Farah Khelil
ALL THE MEMORY IN THE WORLD,
TOUTE LA MÉMOIRE DU MONDE
2014—2016

A sense of awe is what the two artists should have felt while browsing shelves in the Avranches Library, which houses precious manuscripts from the Abbey of Mont Saint–Michel but also worn out books, devoured by book–eating insects. As a part of their ongoing project bookworms, the two artists, both book lovers, reflected on the importance of books as factor of knowledge transfer. Appropriating the title of a documentary movie by Alain ResnaisA — a display of the intricate mechanisms of cataloguing, storing, retrieving books in the Bibliotheque Nationale Française — ALL THE MEMORY IN THE WORLD sees the risks of physical damage to a book object as a metaphor for those ones, much more dangerous, which affect cultural transmission as a whole.

A Resnais, Alain (1956). Toute la Mémoire du Monde, 20’. https​:​//​www.​youtube.​com/​watch?​v=i0RVSZ​_yDjs

http://www.athanor.world/5/lefebvre-khelil_all-the-memory-in-the-world.html