THE INK PAVILION
is a new work in progress started in Long Beach, California, in the Summer of 2006. It is composed, at the current stage, of architectural models, photographs, video and ink drawings. Info
Laurent Sauerwein makes artist's books which are sold here, as well as in several international galleries and bookstores. This web site presents the (in)complete catalog of the bookworks, with covers and short descriptions. Virtual versions of some books can be clicked through or viewed in streaming video. Here, you can also buy books you can touch, real books with pages you can actually turn!
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NEW BOOKS
IN IVRY

Sep.23 - Sep.24, 2006
Operation "Pleins Feux", presentation of THE INK PAVILION - architectural models, photographs, videos and ink drawings. 2-7 pm.

Sep.25 - Sep.26, 2004
Operation "Pleins Feux", presentation of new books, life-size photo cut-outs, pop-ups and other installations. 10 rue Louis Bertrand (Metro Pierre Curie), Ivry-sur-Seine. Next to Chinatown, in the 13th.

Sep.19 - Sep.21, 2003
I showed six new books and an installation in
Geneviève Breerette´s
loft, in Ivry-sur-Seine
France. This was the invitation.

OVER 70 BOOKS
Over 70 books by Laurent Sauerwein are currently available. Not all are listed in the catalog. Please ask!

Catalog

Special editions


The Ink Pavilion
Info


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PHOTO
CUT-OUTS

Life-size photo cut-outs. Things small children should not touch here.


GO TOUCH
The books are sold here online but also in brick and mortar, tangible galleries or bookstores.

Tangible
points of sale

SHOW IN SHANGHAI
JUNE 2005

Alliance Française
297 Wu Song Lu
Shanghai 200080 CHINA

Invitation

More info

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Alliance

SHOW IN CANTON
AUGUST 2005
Alliance Française
12, Bei Jiao Chang Heng Lu
Wuzi Dasha, 2/F
Guangzhou 510050
CHINA

Installation plan


"MONTAGNE" TOURS USA
My book on the Montagne Sainte-Victoire (Cézanne) has been touring the US and Canada in 2004 with Bookmobile-Mobilivre


READ
"How I came to make small books instead of bulky sculptures..."
All books 16 x 10 cm closed, 16 x 20 cm open. High-resolution inkjet prints glued and assembled by hand. Number of pages variable.


FLAT LOFT
Think thin, save space.
An installation of life-size photo cut-outs. A whole room: four walls and two dimensional furniture. Glimpse here.


DON'T TOUCH
Here you'll find web pieces, digital works for your eyes only.

NEW ANIMATION Merry-go-round

Prouvé + Mies

Other web works


REVIEWS
Nancy Princenthal's column in "Art on Paper".


WEBCAM
A glimpse of the studio, from time to time.
RECENT WORK
RUE MARCEL DUCHAMP
Paris 13

PASSY
The book
A book shown at A. Gaydon's

KID STUFF

The book

BLOCK ISLAND
East Coast, USA

YU GARDEN
SHANGHAI
Yu Garden


DUCHAMP
"Fountain" :
Readymade/Unmade


MALLARMÉ
"Un coup de dés", Stéphane Mallarmé's poem explored like a landscape.

Or drastically recomposed, drained of its modernist space, as in the streaming "Delta".

Illustrating "Lacan et la poésie", by Armelle Gaydon.


INTANGIBLE
FURNITURE


Animation
REAL BOOKS WITH PAGES YOU CAN ACTUALLY TURN !