Fifteen People Select their Favourite Book

These magazine pages are part of the Brooklyn Rail 'Critics Pages' series. Mine stem from a project I developed with the Mahler & LeWitt Studios in Spoleto, Italy on the subject of artists’ books. It began in September 2017 when I organised an event titled Fifteen People Present their Favourite Book, in part to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Lannis Gallery/ Museum of Normal Art’s seminal exhibition, Fifteen People Present their Favorite Book (1967). Since Sol LeWitt was one of the original participants, and its exhibition space was beneath his studio, it was natural to use his presence in Italy as a trigger for the exhibition’s re-staging.

I wrote the introduction: 'Fifteen people in Spoleto' The contributions listed below follow in sequence. Two Spoleto contributors decided not to participate in the magazine exhibition project.

Ian Davenport and Jo Melvin: On Sol LeWitt

Primo De Donno and Emanuele De Donno:
‘Transactions of e Second International Symposium of Molinology'and Paola Navone & Bruno Orlandoni ‘Architecttura Radicale’ Casabella

Sean Dower: 33 1/3 RPM - Perfromance for record turntable. loop effect [edal and vinyl records

Jeffrey Isaac: Chimeracarousel 2018

Jeff Gibbons: Badenheim 1939 and my painting

JocJonJosch: Existere

Guy Robertson: Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings Torre Bonomo Spoleto

Giovanni Rendini:Parrots Parrots Mattia Paje do you come here often?

David Tremlett: Drawing 4: Bruce Chatwin What am I doing Here, 2010

Franco Trioani: Sol LeWitt Extrordinary Traveller in Spoleto

Grace Weir: For every line a point not on it