Daumenkino – The Flip Book Show

Wanted - Found - Excavated

We were tidying up our cellar and came across two boxes that we had packed away as a precaution 20 years ago and then forgotten about. The exhibition at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (7/5 - 21/8/2005) was a great success at the time, and the book quickly sold out. Here is the announcement text from our spring 2005 preview: "At the same time a book and a mini cinema in pocket format, a series of pictures and a narrative, the flip book is an object to be grasped primarily haptically. The flipbook is a book that for a short time mutates into a cinema, a series of pictures whose narrative unfolds as you look at it, an object that you have to touch in order for it to tell a story. The publication "Daumenkino" describes the historical processes and media of image generation and also closes the gap in academic research between early media of the moving image and contemporary art, focussing on the flip book as a little-noticed, yet generally known and omnipresent medium. In addition to diverse representations of historical apparatus, patents and historical books, the flip-books of contemporary artists in particular are documented and recorded, including those of: Pedro Almodovar, John Baldessari, Angela Bulloch, Tacita Dean, Gilbert & George, Jean-Luc Godard, Douglas Gordon, Keith Haring, William Kentridge, Jonathan Monk, Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Andy Warhol and many more.

Exhibition:
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 7/5 - 17/7/2005