Archive for Small Press & Communication

As most of the collected documents record activities neglected by the traditional artworld, the preserved works remain an important contribution to the knowledge of the contemporary art scene until the 1980s.

Paul de Vree wrote about it: “It is thanks to the ‘Small Press’ that not only the avant-garde but also the pluralism of ideas and action have found their way into the rigid world of conformism.”[4] The collection consists publications, ranging from the avantgarde of the 1920s.

Many of them are meanwhile recognized by a larger public such as Ben, Christian Boltanski, Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, James Lee Byars, John Cage, Ulises Carrión, Henri Chopin, Mirtha Dermisache, Hanne Darboven, Robert Filliou, Dan Graham, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Roman Opalka, Dieter Roth, Daniel Spoerri, Timm Ulrichs, Bernard Villers, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner.

and Guy Schraenen was encharged to build up a collection of artists' books in the Neues Museum Weserburg in Bremen (Germany).

This step was of great importance: "Never before artists' books were regarded as art works and presented equally alongside paintings, sculptures, graphics, environments and installations in a museum"[6] In 1999 the A.S.P.C.