Robert Kusterle’s exhibition catalogue is actually a photographic folder published on the occasion of the Images on Paper / Cartacei, exhibition opening at the Gong Gallery in Nova Gorica. The conceptual design of the publication is a collaboration between the artist, Gong Gallery and Studio Faganel from Gorizia, where the catalogue was also designed. The photographic folder includes, in addition to the expert text, fourteen individual reproductions of photographs based on images of old papers from the Gorizia archive, with damaged and faded stamps layered on top of each other. The last layer is made up of human figures that merge and are immersed in the paper, so that the viewer can no longer distinguish between the surface of the body and the paper. In the context of the artist’s concept of photographs, the cover of the folder is partly made of pieces of old paper, while the title of the exhibition and the gallery’s logo are stamped onto it.
Author: Roberto Kusterle
Text: Nataša Kovšca
Publisher: Galerija Gong
Year: 2020
Photographic map: 14 prints
Print run: 100 copies
Language: slovene, italian
Dimensions: 27 x 21 cm
ISBN: 978-961-95131-0-1
