Michael Farion

Michael Farion is a Canadian designer commissioned to design a perspex bookcase for the Bibliomania exhibition (1998–1999). Though the bookcase was not fabricated due to budget constraints, his detailed architectural drawings — reproduced in the exhibition catalogue — extend the project into the design of how knowledge might be stored, displayed, and circulated.

Farion's design intention, as described in the catalogue, drew on the De Stijl and Bauhaus traditions, with influences including Carl Andre, Donald Judd, and Sol LeWitt. The bookcase was conceived to disappear within its environment — unobtrusive, structural, and subordinate to the books it would hold.

Publications gathered here document projects in which Farion's work appears. Original period items.

  • Stack of art theory books spine-out including Roland Barthes Camera Lucida, Mythologies, Image Music Text, Walter Benjamin Illuminations, Jean Baudrillard America, Douglas Crimp On the Museum's Ruins, and Mark Dion Natural History and Other Fictions. Second stack including Art After Modernism, Harrison & Wood Art in Theory 1900–1990, Lucy Lippard Six Years The Dematerialization of the Art Object, Beyond Recognition by Owens, and Modernism in Dispute.

    Simon Morris & Helen Sacoor — Bibliomania 1998–1999, 1999

    Simon Morris & Helen Sacoor — Bibliomania 1998–1999, 1999