{"title":"Linus Bill","description":"\u003cp\u003eLinus Bill (born 1982, Biel\/Bienne) is a Swiss artist working across painting, publication, and printed matter. Trained at the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL), Bill has developed a practice in which the printed page and the painted canvas exist in continuous dialogue — each informing, preceding, and surviving the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBill is best known for his long-running collaboration with Adrien Horni, through which the two artists developed the \u003cem\u003eGemälde\u003c\/em\u003e project: a process of drawing, cutting, scanning, and exchanging images that were first gathered into Xeroxed publications before being translated into large-scale acrylic and silkscreen paintings. The page was never merely preparatory — canvases from the sequence retain titles such as \u003cem\u003eGemälde, p. 53\u003c\/em\u003e, preserving the printed model from which they emerged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublications by Linus Bill occupy a precise position within his practice: they are not documentation of work made elsewhere, but objects in which the work first takes form. Catalogues, artist books, and exhibition publications produced in small editions record the image at the stage before enlargement, colour, and transfer to canvas — making the printed matter an early and irreducible part of the finished sequence.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"linus-bill-adrien-horni-gemalde-mj-2014","title":"LINUS BILL + ADRIEN HORNI — Gemälde. M J, Geneva, 2014","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeneva: M J, 2014. Exhibition catalogue published for \u003cem\u003eGemälde\u003c\/em\u003e, 23 May–14 June 2014, M J, Rue École de Médecine 6, Geneva. Softcover, saddle-stitched. Black-and-white Xerox. 36 pages. 14.5 × 21 cm. Edition of 200.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Very good. General toning to the thin paper wrappers, with light handling and minor edge wear. Contemporary handwritten stock and price notation to the upper corner of the rear wrapper. Interior clean and complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLINUS BILL and ADRIEN HORNI began working together through a process of drawing, cutting, pasting, scanning and exchanging images. Small compositions were gathered into publications before selected pages were translated into large paintings using acrylic and silkscreen. The page remained part of the finished work: canvases from the sequence retain titles such as \u003cem\u003eGemälde, p. 53\u003c\/em\u003e, identifying the printed model from which they emerged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced for their 2014 exhibition at M J in Geneva, this early \u003cem\u003eGemälde\u003c\/em\u003e catalogue contains 36 Xeroxed pages of layered photographs, digital marks, cartoon fragments and abstract forms. Its thin, slightly translucent stock allows images and typography to remain faintly visible through adjoining pages. The publication does not simply reproduce the paintings; it records the stage at which their images existed before enlargement, colour and transfer to canvas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe project expanded the following year into \u003cem\u003eGemälde 2013–2017\u003c\/em\u003e, a 367-page volume assembling more than 350 proposed paintings in advance of their production. This smaller M J publication sits near the beginning of that sequence, when the catalogue, working image and exhibition object had not yet separated into fixed roles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"M J, Geneva","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53986281881938,"sku":"BILL-MJ-CAT-2014","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Bill_Linus_and_Horni_Adrien._Gemalde_catalogue._2014.jpg?v=1783898809"},{"product_id":"linus-bill-adrien-horni-gemalde-nathalie-karg-gallery-2014","title":"LINUS BILL + ADRIEN HORNI — Gemälde. Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, 2014","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew York: Nathalie Karg Gallery, 2014. Exhibition invitation for \u003cem\u003eGemälde\u003c\/em\u003e, 11 December 2014–24 January 2015, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York. Colour offset print on card. 14.5 × 21 cm. Blank verso.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Very good. Light toning and minor handling consistent with age; clean verso.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe exhibition was LINUS BILL and ADRIEN HORNI’s first with Nathalie Karg Gallery. Their collaborative practice moved between drawing, collage, scanning, publication and painting, with images passing repeatedly from one format and scale into another. The works shown in New York were identified by page-based titles including \u003cem\u003eNY P.3 TL\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNY P.8 TR\u003c\/em\u003e, preserving their origin within a sequence of printed and assembled images.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarlier that December, Printed Matter presented the artists’ small collages and publication material alongside framed works connected to the Nathalie Karg exhibition. The associated New York publication was produced in a numbered edition of 200.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than reproducing one of the finished paintings, the invitation shows the yellow publication made for the project. The exhibition announcement therefore contains another printed object, which in turn contains an image intended to move onward into painting. Gallery, publication and artwork remain visible within the same small surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nathalie Karg Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53986310947154,"sku":"BILL-KARG-INV-2014","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Bill_LinusandHorni_Adrien.Gemaldecatalogue.2014invite.jpg?v=1783900005"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/linus-bill.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}