This book is supported by the CNAP (Centre National des Arts Plastiques) and the Jan Michalski Foundation
Introduction and comments by Bernard Marcelis
Two books (96 + 92 pages) in a slipcase
6,5 x 9 inches
16,2 x 22,9 cm
Translated from French by Lucas Faugère
Graphic design: Current Matters (Nicolas Leuba and Nicolas Bolay)
Publication date: November 2022
English edition
ISBN: 978-2-36568-058-5
📰 « Plus qu’un écrit d’artiste, c’est un manifeste d’histoire de l’art, une pierre majeure que livre André Cadere à la fin de sa vie et qui éclaire encore ce qu’est une pratique artistique au XXIè siècle. »
– JDD Magazine
We know of only three texts written by André Cadere, this is the only one that was not yet published. Between May and July 1978, in the weeks preceding his death, he wrote forty-three letters to his friend and gallery owner, Yvon Lambert. These letters – a moving testimony to his thinking, his practice and his work – are published here for the first time in their entirety, and constitute the artist’s third and last writing, after Presentation of a work. Use of a work (1974), and History of a work (1982). The edition is composed of a slipcase that gathers the book introduced by Bernard Marcelis – specialist of Cadere, author of his catalogue raisonné – followed by the 43 letters commented, annotated and illustrated.
