• Linus Bill + Adrien Horni, Gemälde, M J, Geneva, 2014. Front cover: cream card with two black geometric shapes — a notched vertical rectangle upper left and a horizontal square lower right — title 'Gemälde' upper right, publisher mark 'M J' lower left. Saddle-stitched catalogue, edition of 200.
  • Linus Bill + Adrien Horni, Gemälde, M J, Geneva, 2014. Interior spread: left, grey ground with abstract collage of dark notched rectangle, black horizontal bar, white diagonal forms and pixelated fragments; right, white ground with collage of vertical grey bar, dark semicircle, circular disc, and black smudged form with grid texture upper right.
  • Linus Bill + Adrien Horni, Gemälde, M J, Geneva, 2014. Interior spread: left, white ground with collage of four black-and-white photographs — cylindrical tubes, grid structures, a lamp, and reflective glassware; right, grey ground with two organic outline drawings — a large biomorphic form upper centre and a bold circular scrawl lower right with gestural marks.
  • Linus Bill + Adrien Horni, Gemälde, M J, Geneva, 2014. Interior page: black-and-white photograph mounted on cream card showing illuminated display case with neon tube forms, cartoon fish graphic, and redacted text panel lower centre. Handwritten stock notation "99514 / 6–" upper left corner of mount.
  • Linus Bill + Adrien Horni, Gemälde, M J, Geneva, 2014. Opening spread: left, cream rear wrapper with two rectangular ghost forms visible through translucent stock; right, white title page — "Linus Bill + Adrien Horni / Gemälde (underlined) / 23 mai – 14 juin 2014 / M J / Rue École de Médecine 6 / Genève".
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LINUS BILL + ADRIEN HORNI — Gemälde. M J, Geneva, 2014

LINUS BILL + ADRIEN HORNI — Gemälde. M J, Geneva, 2014

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Geneva: M J, 2014. Exhibition catalogue published for Gemälde, 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.

Condition: 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.

LINUS 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 Gemälde, p. 53, identifying the printed model from which they emerged.

Produced for their 2014 exhibition at M J in Geneva, this early Gemälde 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.

The project expanded the following year into Gemälde 2013–2017, 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.

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