Daumenkino – The Flip Book Show

Sought – Found – Unearthed – We have been putting our cellar in order, and in the process two boxes came to hand that we had prudently packed away 20 years ago and then forgotten. The exhibition 2005 at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf was a great success at the time, and the book quickly went out of print. Here is the announcement text from our spring 2005 preview: At once book and pocket-sized mini-cinema, series of images and narrative, the flip book is an object to be grasped primarily by touch. The flip book is a book that briefly mutates into a cinema, a series of images whose narrative unfolds as one looks at it, an object that has to be touched if it is to tell a story. The publication “Daumenkino – The Flip Book Show” describes the historical processes and media of image generation and also closes the gap in scholarly research between early media of the moving image and contemporary art, taking as its subject the flip book as a little-noticed yet universally familiar and ubiquitous medium. Alongside a wide range of depictions of historical apparatus, patents and historical books, it documents and records above all the flip books of contemporary artists, including those by: 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 others.

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