The Adventure Begins
Artist: Laurent Kropf
Artists’ notepad, Softcover
42 pages, 20.4 × 28.9 cm
First Edition 2008
ISBN 978-2-940409-13-6
Reprint in the paperbacks series fink twice
The complete series of Boabooks artists' notepads
edition fink, Contemporary Art Publishers, Zurich
ISBN 978-3-03746-505-9
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(…) comes an extraordinary vision; journey to a world; to get; looking; can vanish in the blink of an eye; disappeared before your eyes; nothing can prepare you; this is the way the world ends; to where it began; you have nothing to worry about. In this book Laurent Kropf offers a freeze frame approach based on a collection of trailer archives. By setting apart this narrative clips, the artist composes a fragmented reading of an imaginary film. The typographic patterns are consistent with the images, as they reinforce our questioning when introduced to with this imaginary scenario.