Art Metropole will be exhibiting at Miss Read: The Berlin Art Book Fair and Festival this year, taking place at silent green from Friday June 26 – Sunday June 28.
In conjunction with the fair, we are thrilled to be launching the reprint of the FETISH T-shirt, the perfect attire to wear to a dungeon or family outing. The FETISH T-shirt was editioned by John Jack Baylin and John Dowd for Art Metropole ca. 1975, and frequently featured in advertisements on the pages of early issues of FILE Megazine. Over the past five decades, other editions of this shirt were also created, reproduced, reinterpreted, and circulated by artists associated with Art Metropole, Image Bank, and Western Front. The design reached a moment of symbolic prominence during the seminal Hollywood Decca Dance (1974), held at the Elks Lodge in Los Angeles. We are thrilled to have the first artist’s multiple ever published by Art Metropole back in print once again, this time as an open fundraising edition.
The FETISH T-shirt will be available at Art Metropole’s table throughout the fair, alongside a selection of books and zines by artists, including titles from Art Metropole’s own publishing program. Featured artists include Nour Bishouty, Azadeh Elmizadeh, Jordan King, G.B. Jones, Joshua Schwebel, Darian Razdar, Alicia Nauta, Lan “Florence” Yee, ma ma, Minh Nguyen, A Maior, Yaniya Lee, and more!
Fair Hours:
Friday, June 26, 5–9pm
Saturday, June 27, 12–7pm,
Sunday, June 28, 12–7pm
Founded in 2009, Miss Read is dedicated to building a community and creating a public meeting place for discourse around artists’ books, conceptual publications and publishing as artistic and political practice. Miss Read: The Berlin Art Book Fair brings together a wide selection of the most interesting artists/authors, artist periodicals and art publishers and is accompanied by a series of lectures, discussions, book launches and workshops exploring the boundaries of contemporary publishing and the possibilities of the book. In conjunction with Miss Read, the annual Conceptual Poetics Day explores the imaginary border between visual art and literature.