The Cosmos on a Sheet of Paper and in a Gallery Box

The symposium brings together several invited curators and experts from the fields of typography, design, visual poetry and artists' books.

Symposium programme

11.00 Introduction to the symposium, guided tour of the exhibitions Honza Zamojski, Middleman and Can it be tried somewhere?, conducted by Honza Zamojski and Lorenzo Gigotti (Nero Editions).

12.00–14.00

12.00–12.15 Opening address, Nevenka Šivavec, MGLC Director

12.15–12.45 Jarosław Lubiak, Have the egg and eat it, too: On Honza Zamojski’s infrapolitics of humour

12.45–13.15 Domen Fras, Microcosm of Slovenian Typography Practice

13.15–13.45 Marko Tadić, Artist’s books 2023

13.45–14.00 Questions and answers

15.00–17.00

15.00–15.30 Cesare Pietroiusti, A Certain Number of Things (introduction to the presentation: Lorenzo Gigotti)

15.30–16.00 Mag. Breda Škrjanec, Collection and classification of art publications, Presentation of the collection of art publications of the International Centre of Graphic Arts

16.00–16.15 Marian Misiak, Fonts are Culture

16.15–16.30 Honza Zamojski, Presentation of the artist's book Rise and Fall of the Middleman

16.30–17.00 Questions and answers, conclusion

Moderator: Pia Prezelj

Coordinator: Lili Šturm

The symposium is an accompanying event to the Honza Zamojski's exhibition at MGLC and his pop-up exhibition at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana. It is held in English.