BUT THEN

11 11/16 x 8 1/4 inches (29.7 x 21 cm)
32 pages / Unpaginated / Staple bound / Softcover
37 plates (drawings, film stills, photographs, squares, Two Lines, words)
Offset (black-and-white)
Text: Denis Gielen (French)
Publisher: Musée des Arts Contemporains du Grand-Hornu, Hornu (Belgium), on the occasion of the exhibition Le Miroir et les Chemins. Peter Downsbrough—Philippe Durand—Jacqueline Mesmaeker, July 8–October 14, 2012 /curated by Denis Gielen
Printer: not mentioned (Impresor Ariane,
Brussels (Belgium))
Print run: not noted (500)
ISBN: 978-2-930368-53-5

CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ NUMBER: 95

On the occasion of this three-person exhibition, each artist was given the possibility to do a catalogue, but Peter Downsbrough chose to make another book. The three volumes, each with the same width, but with a slightly different height, are presented together in a sleeve. The catalogues by the two other artists and the sleeve were designed by a graphic designer. Next to the sparse page designs with the typical visual elements (drawings, film stills, photographs, squares, Two Lines, words), Downsbrough’s book contains, at the very end an illustrated list of the sixteen photographs included in the exhibition which were shot between 1979 and 2011 in places such as Antwerp, Barcelona, Boston, Brussels, Cork, Kent, Munich, Las Vegas, New York, or San Francisco. The epilogue by Denis Gielen, in French, on the back cover, is an elaboration of a text fragment previously published in UNTITLED 5.11, and says: “More than space, more than places (which are only parts of it) it is advisable to speak about territories in regard to Peter Downsbrough’s pieces; singularly complex and maximalist territories in the sense that they are offered as many parcours and readings as possible along words, axes and black areas by which they are signaled and organized.”