Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts

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Read, Peep, Reap

Item date(s): 2014

Eugene Hön

Pages: unpaged
Size: 85cm, see notes
Edition: Unique

Place publication: Johannesburg
Publisher: FADA, The University of Johannesburg
Exhibition 14; 17; 19

Additional notes:
The installation work consists of the following:

- A ballpoint-pen drawing of an Iris, which is framed with a venetian blind to protect the ink medium from sunlight.

- a book consisting of the visual label cut into strips, held together with two strings, with a brown spine with the title and author's name and "702.81HON" mimicking the Library of Congress call number. This is held upright between two perspex bookends.

- A digitally printed concertina fold booklet in archival inks in which the original Iris flower morphs into kaleidoscopic new patterns.

Exhibition notes:
First published by the artist and exhibited on the exhibition 'Book arts: artist's books'. Art on Paper, 44 Stanley, Johannesburg. 25 October – 15 November 2014

‘Booknesses: Contemporary South African Artist's Books’. FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg. Curated by David Paton and Eugene Hon. 24 March - 5 May 2017

Samplings: South African Artists' Books. Basement Gallery, WAM. 26 March to 6 July 2019

Gaia: Dialogue between the book arts, natural sciences & plant humanities. JBCBA, WAM. Curated by David Paton & Ciara Struwig. 16 September – 12 December 2025

Ref: GB/14565





From the Booknesses exhibition, FADA	From the Booknesses exhibition, FADA
From the Booknesses exhibition, FADA