Derek Sullivan

The Power Plant’s 2011 commission ‘Albatross Omnibus’ by Toronto-based artist Derek Sullivan involves new artist books, and a drawing and installation project. The commission’s core is a series of 52 limited edition books produced through print-on-demand technology. The exhibition extends into this catalogue that is comprised of two sections housed in a case; an accordion-fold book that documents the exhibition as well as the 52 book covers and a saddle stitched reader that features texts by Gregory Burke, AA Bronson and Kathleen Ritter.

A photographic survey of an unwitting knock-off of Simon Starling’s work, Flaga (1972-2000), 2002, discovered in the urban Toronto landscape.
A single image is examined in detail, with each page offering a different close-up of the encounter.

From a group of books published by Sullivan, for his White Column’s Bulletin Board project, using print on demand technology. The technology allows for the content of the titles to be under continual revision, creating an unlimited edition publication that is in perpetual development.

Unlimited varied edition.

Jeff Wall, Landscape Manual #1

Black and white images document a Toronto-area record store’s recreation of Jeff Wall’s ‘Destroyed Room’, as it appeared on a Sonic Youth album sleeve.

From a group of books published by Sullivan, for his White Column’s Bulletin Board project, using print on demand technology. The technology allows for the content of the titles to be under continual revision, creating an unlimited edition publication that is in perpetual development.

Unlimited varied edition.

Drive by snapshots investigate the rainbow-painted entrance to a Toronto-area tunnel immortalized in paintings by Peter Doig.

From a group of books published by Sullivan, for his White Column’s Bulletin Board project, using print on demand technology. The technology allows for the content of the titles to be under continual revision, creating an unlimited edition publication that is in perpetual development.

Unlimited varied edition.

A book left incomplete and open for continual revisions and additions. This incarnation finds it as a spare book in the initial stages with curious images of unlikely connections and coincidences between artist Robert Smithson and The Cure singer Robert Smith.

From a group of books published by Sullivan, for his White Column’s Bulletin Board project, using print on demand technology. The technology allows for the content of the titles to be under continual revision, creating an unlimited edition publication that is in perpetual development.

Unlimited varied edition.

Un jeu d'anagrammes à partir du titre du célèbre livre d'Ed Ruscha "Every building on the sunset strip".

Livre sans texte.