Artelibro Art Book Festival is pleased to present the exhibition The Infinite Library, a project of Daniel Gustav Cramer (Germany) e Haris Epaminonda (Cyprus).

The seventh edition of Artelibro (Bologna, September 24th-26th, 2010) will be held in Palazzo Re Enzo with the International Antiquarian Book Fair. Main theme of this year will be The Ancient, rare and art book that will see antiquarian booksellers, publishers, printers, and the artists themselves as protagonists.

After the success of 2009 exhibition Mediated experience: Olafur Eliasson's books (which registered 5000 visitors in only two weeks) and the relative catalogue TYT [Take Your Time], Vol.2: Printed Matter (both edited by Luca Cerizza), and analogous initiatives such as Artist’s books by Sol Lewitt (2009) and BOOKS! From the Sixties to nowadays (2008), Artelibro 2010 will continue in the recognition of the relationship between publishing and contemporary artistic practices.
Bologna will offer visitors the best of its extraordinary books heritage in a special route through the city's Museums and Libraries, besides hosting the 39th World Congress of Antiquarian Booksellers from 20th to 23rd September 2010.

In the context of Bologna and Artelibro, The Infinite Library will be presented in two of the most suggestive historical places - Biblioteca Universitaria and Museo di Palazzo Poggi - resulting in a stimulating dialogue between cultural heritage and contemporary experimentation.

Conceived by Daniel Gustav Cramer and Haris Epaminonda (protagonist of a solo show at Tate Modern, this year) and started in 2007, The Infinite Library is an evolving project. As the artists say: “It is an extensive archive of books, each created by existing books, numbered as if they were new volumes. Each volume has its own structure that is recombined each time from the original material and the opportunities it offers. As the library expands with the addition of new books, each volume brings the chance to become the center of a spatial installation, an extension of the subject, the form, the content, the rhythm and the logic of the book”.

The project represents one of today's most interesting examples of dialogue between contemporary art and publishing, is intended both as the material of artistic research itself and as a framework for reflection on its nature, its history and its future. Drawn on “traditional” book forms and especially on its specific typology and chronology, this project will also examine the production, distribution and circulation of images nowadays.

The Infinite Library has been presented so far in different ways and by using different materials and technical supports (form videos to display windows, from collages to archives) in international galleries and institutions. The exhibition in Bologna will be the most complete project’s show up till now, presenting a collection of about 40 volumes.