{"title":"BLANK PUBLICATIONS","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"double-bind","title":"Double Bind","description":"","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54396849422675,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/DoubleBind_back.png?v=1784899570"},{"product_id":"evergreen-book-for-everybody-nobody-and-me","title":"Evergreen Book for everybody nobody and me","description":"","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54397007954259,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/evergreen.png?v=1784902437"},{"product_id":"ferme-comme-beaubourg-suivi-de-lerotisme-chez-mondrian","title":"Fermé comme Beaubourg suivi de l'Érotisme chez Mondrian","description":"","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54397099704659,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/Ferme.png?v=1784903952"},{"product_id":"flux-paper-events","title":"Flux Paper Events","description":"","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54397482008915,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/fluxpaper.png?v=1784905818"},{"product_id":"insait","title":"in'sait","description":"","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54402671477075,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/insait_96ca91dd-d804-4eeb-bb3b-bc9f5069851f.png?v=1789370110"},{"product_id":"untitled-5","title":"[Untitled, Jiří Valoch]","description":"","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54402812608851,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/jiri2.png?v=1784989176"},{"product_id":"untitled-6","title":"[Untitled, Jiří Valoch]","description":"","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54402818376019,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/Jiri1.png?v=1784989426"},{"product_id":"this-book-by-opal-l-nations","title":"This Book by Opal L. Nations","description":"","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54403093168467,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/Opal.png?v=1784990775"},{"product_id":"piero-manzoni-life-and-work","title":"Piero Manzoni: Life and Work","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1962, shortly before his sudden death at the age of 29, Piero Manzoni conceived two major publications. The first, “8 Tavole di accertamento” (8 Works of Verification), was published by Vanni Scheiwiller in Milan that same year; the second was a para-biography titled “Piero Manzoni. Life and Work”. Designed by the artist before his death in February 1963 as an all-blank book, the latter was published posthumously, with the name of its publisher, Jes Petersen, appearing prominently above the title on the cover. The Piero Manzoni Foundation sheds light on this ambiguity of authorship:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“An announcement published in that period declared that Jes Petersen was the author of the work ‘Piero Manzoni. The Life and the Works’, composed of ‘around 100 pages’, with a format of 17 x 12 centimetres, published in sixty copies: in reality it was only in 1963 that Petersen distributed ‘Piero Manzoni. Life and Works’, produced on sheets of translucent acetate and bound with a spine, in the same format and in an edition of sixty copies (a new edition was to be published in 1969).”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe account clarifies the deliberate confusion, orchestrated by Manzoni himself, between author and publisher, an ambiguity that forms an integral part of the work’s conceptual and bibliographic character.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54403147989331,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/PieroManzoniLifeandWork.png?v=1784994838"},{"product_id":"poeme-collectif","title":"Poème collectif","description":"","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54408297152851,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/poemecollectif.png?v=1785058906"},{"product_id":"point-blank","title":"Point Blank","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKendall Geers is an undoubtedly unique artist whose practice confronts not only the political injustices of his native South Africa but also the fractures and inconsistencies of the art system itself. In 1993, in a performance staged in conjunction with the Venice Biennale, Geers literally rewrote the story of his life: he abandoned his given names, Jacobus Hermanus Pieter, in favour of Kendall, and changed his date of birth to May 1968. In doing so, he severed his biographical connection to his origins, particularly to his father, whom he associated with colonialism, apartheid, and right-wing politics. Throughout his practice, life and work become intertwined in powerful acts of détournement, through which he explores violence, sex, fear, terror, and social and political anxiety across different media and forms.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor this visceral project, Geers subjected every copy of the edition to gunfire, firing six or seven rounds through each book at close range before its release. The resulting scorch marks and punctures make the title “Point Blank” literal: it refers both to the work’s subject matter and to the act performed upon its physical form. Devoid of text or imagery, the book bears traces of gunpowder, exposing the wounds and the residue of an act of violence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54408310063443,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/pointblank.png?v=1785059974"},{"product_id":"une-livre","title":"Une Livre","description":"","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54408589705555,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/UneLivre.png?v=1785066881"},{"product_id":"wit-weiss","title":"Wit Weiss","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne recurrent theme in the Metabooks collection is the blank publication, in which the absence of any printed content transforms the volume into a veritable \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etabula rasa\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Conceptual and slightly iconoclastic in nature, “Wit Weiss” concludes on a humorous note with an ironically worded disclaimer: “No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by print, photoprint, microfilm or any other means without written permission from the publisher.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe publication was exhibited in 2024 as part of the \"Text as Image\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexhibition at Studio 454 in Venice, alongside other rare examples of completely “white books”.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54408614052179,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/Wit_weiss.png?v=1785067804"},{"product_id":"wit-white","title":"Wit-White","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne recurrent theme in the Metabooks collection is the blank publication, in which the absence of any printed content transforms the volume into a veritable \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etabula rasa\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Conceptual and slightly iconoclastic in nature, the present publication is a French re-edition of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWit Weiss\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1967). Unlike the original, which concluded with a humorous and ironic reproduction disclaimer, this recent variation is accompanied by a belly band and a printed bookmark recounting the history of the book and its various editions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54408700789075,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/Wit-White.png?v=1785068827"},{"product_id":"untitled-8","title":"[Untitled, blank book]","description":"","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54570909925715,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/DSC4368.png?v=1786545668"}],"url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/collections\/blank-publications.oembed","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}