Leporello N° 02
Micah Lexier
CONDITION & NOTES | |
New / Numbered edition of 250. |
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TYPE | PUBLICATION YEAR |
Leporello in box |
2021 |
EDITION | LANGUAGE |
First |
English |
PUBLISHER | DIMENSIONS |
LL'Editions | 19 x 15 x 2.5 cm |
New / Numbered edition of 250.
TYPE
Leporello in box
PUBLICATION YEAR
2021
EDITION
First
LANGUAGE
English
PUBLISHER
LL'Editions
DIMENSIONS
19 x 15 x 2.5 cm
ABOUT
A number of years ago Micah Lexier purchased a small paperback publication about the game of dominoes. The very end of the book consisted of a series of pages that reproduced a complete set of twenty-eight domino tiles. The images were printed on right-hand pages, four to a page, while the left-hand pages were blank. The idea was that you were supposed to cut these images out of the book and glue them to empty matchboxes to create your own do-it-yourself set. That sequence of pages, combined with the quality of their reproductions, was the inspiration for Lexier’s leporello. To that, he added two favourite print techniques – perforations and die-cut holes – to create a set of ten domino tiles. Lexier chose the denomination of each tile and its order in the leporello so that none of the thirty-four die-cut holes line up with each other, allowing each hole to be misread as a printed white domino dot.
For The Leporello Series, LL’Editions has invited a select group of international artists to contribute. Each artist is given carte blanche, restricted only by the accordion format and its ten panels (recto).
Inhabiting a space between book and paper sculpture, the Leporellos are printed on delicate Mohawk Superfine Eggshell paper. Each volume in the series is limited to 250 numbered copies and come in a bespoke rigid box, with the title hot foiled both on its front and on its spine, allowing it to sit comfortably in a bookshelf when not on display.