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We are glad to invite you for a talk with Arnaud Desjardin. It will be exceptionally held IN THE KHiO LIBRARY.

A publisher, book dealer, artist and writer, Arnaud Desjardin runs The Everyday Press – an imprint for artist’s publications. Working in collaboration with other artists, curators and writers he facilitates the materialization and dissemination of books, pamphlets and other printed matter. He recently published a rambling reference book on books and reference material about artist’s books released since the early 1970s: The Book on Books on Artists Books.

That project also includes an ongoing series of exhibitions where the original source books are displayed and showed as an archive or collection.

Originally trained in sculpture at the Ecole des Beaux Art in Paris in the early 1990s, Arnaud Desjardin moved to London in 1995 where he has been based ever since.

Recent exhibition include: “The Book on Books on Artists Books” a Bloomberg Commission in the summer of 2011 and a solo Project at Focal Point Gallery in Southend, “Please Do Not place Drinks on Vitrines Or Books”.

For the London Open, The Everyday Press and the process of publishing books invades the space of the gallery to literally claim a readership amongst the visiting public and engage that same public with the idea of how books are made and disseminated. Printed in situ rather than on demand a specially designed artist’s publication will be available to the visitors: Business as Usual

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