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Artbooks Vuoti A Rendere International Edition (AVARIE), a Paris/Berlin based independent publisher

Artbooks Vuoti A Rendere International Edition is a Paris based independent publisher founded in 2012 specialising in art and photo books and exploring the relationship between texts and images. With thoughtful stylistic choices, accurate studies on contents and a particular attention to the quality of subjects and materials, Avarie's publications reflect a concept that sees the book as a

jamming incident in the system: a privileged moment of thought and a space of creation that results from a close collaboration with the artist and lies at the outskirts of commercial production. Vuoti A Rendere is an Italian expression to indicate containers, generally bottles, that need to be returned to the vendor according to a clause that not only asks for their return, but also requires a cash deposit from the buyer. Like the tramps who wander the streets of Berlin with no other belongings than those empty bottles they can return in exchange for a few coins for survival, Avarie takes an interest in the artistic process as a form of restitution and resistance by something that disappears or emerges and continues to emerge. The books that are created and proposed by Avarie are conceived like a last trace of an emptiness that continues revealing itself in the shape of a form.

from Avarie:
Position(s) - Antoine d'Agata
I do not want to disappear silently into the night - Katrien de Blauwer
From static oblivion - Ion Grigorescu
Hence / Here ... / Or / Option - Peter Downsbrough

22/05/2025

Two upcoming events celebrate our beloved artist Peter Downsbrough (1940, New Jersey – 2024, Brussels), starting tonight 🖤

📍If you're in Milan, don’t miss the opening of his solo show at gallery at 7 PM. Curated by , the exhibition is designed to occupy the entire space with wall works, sound, and video pieces. Downsbrough’s minimalist approach explores the relationship between language and space, revealing intersections between construction and perception.

📍From May 29 to July 7, BOOOOOKS in Antwerp () will present a comprehensive overview of Peter Downsbrough’s impressive body of self-published and freely-editioned works. Downsbrough belonged to that first generation of artists—including colleagues such as Robert Barry, Sol LeWitt, and Lawrence Weiner in New York; and John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, and Allan Ruppersberg in California—who embraced the book as a medium for presenting their work.

📚 Book lovers and friends in Barcelona this weekend are warmly invited to visit Art Photo Bcn | Photobook Market taking place on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th, 2025, at Disseny Hub
At the and .publishing table, you’ll also find the remaining copies of Kamera Cahier N°9, dedicated to Peter Downsbrough and accompanying his exhibition as part of our last year edition of KAMERA SERIES | experimental films and printed matter. Still available — the nearly sold-out HENCE | HERE ... | OR on AVARIE’s website [all links in bio]

📷 Peter Downsbrough, Untitled. Barcelona, 2009. B/W photograph, gelatin silver print on fiber based paper, 30 x 40 cm

29/04/2025

A copy of the critical essay 'Devenir minéral' – written and curated by Giuliana Prucca, founder and artistic director of Avarie, designed by Vito Raimondi, and published by L'éditeur du dimanche Frederique Destribats – has been spotted at Le Monte-en-l'air bookstore in Ménilmontant, Paris 🖤

I've truly learned from Antonin Artaud to look sideways and obliquely, understanding that significant things are always written in the margins. It's a pleasure to see our 'mineral' surrounded by such intriguing titles, meaningful books, and remarkable authors. Coincidences do not exist.

Special thanks to Aurélie Garreau for her attentive listening and thoughtful selection.

A copy of 'SNATURAMENTI | a workbook by Flatform on displacement' — curated once again by Giuliana Prucca, designed by Vito Raimondi, and published by AVARIE and LIGHT CONE éditions — is also available in the bookstore

25/04/2025

22/04/2025

OP – Back from Brussels, reflecting on the events of the past week.
Heartfelt thanks to CLA | Collection de Livres d'Artiste, hosted at Espace Delvaux, Bibliothèque de Watermael for inviting me to engage with passionate book lovers and offer insight into independent publishing as a curatorial and artistic practice — and to all those who attended and contributed to the exchange.

All AVARIE's books – including 'Kamera cahiers', co-edited with , and Giuliana Prucca's essay 'Devenir minéral', published by L'éditeur du dimanche – are now available for loan at CLA. The library’s holdings feature over 2,500 artists' books, and this initiative underscores a strong commitment to making contemporary art publishing — and this rich artistic resource — easily accessible to all.

AND – Thanks to ERG école de recherche graphique and Denis Deprez for the rich and nourishing session with the students of the Narration department. It was a pleasure to discover such inspiring and creative research projects. Bravo!

Special thanks to Bettina and Michel — you know why 🖤

📷 Peter Downsbrough, AND / OP, steel installation, boulevard Émile Jacqmain / Place de Brouckère, Brussels, 2003

14/04/2025

Dear friends and book lovers,

If you're in Brussels, you're warmly invited to join Giuliana Prucca – writer, curator, and founder of AVARIE .publishing – at the CLA | Collection de Livres d'Artiste, hosted at Espace Delvaux, Bibliothèque de Watermael

📚 She will present a lecture–performance on independent publishing as an artistic practice. The event will feature a series of audio-visual documents – including photographs, paintings, literary texts, film excerpts, and sound recordings – showcasing both her publications and the sources that inspired them.

📍 cla | collection de livres d’artiste
espace paul delvaux | bibliothèque de watermael
3 rue gratès
1170 watermael-boitsfort
brussels | belgium

📆 wednesday, 16 april, 2025 | 4:30 – 6 pm

free admission – limited spots – please register here > https://biblioludowb.be/mer-16-avr-rencontre-avec-giuliana-prucca-les-pieds-dans-le-cla/

📷 De aspectibus, copy of the treatise Kitab al-Manazir by Ibn al-Haytham, known as Alhazen | England, last quarter of the 13th century | Manuscript on parchment.

This manuscript contains a translation of the treatise on optics written by the Arab scientist Alhazen. Its translation and distribution in the West in the 13th century revolutionised scientific knowledge: until then it was thought that light rays were emitted by the eye rather than received by it. The author explored the perception of light and colours, as well as optical illusions. His reflection may well have had an impact on late 13th-century painting.

[ picture taken from 'Revoir Cimabue – Aux origines de la peinture italienne' – beautiful exhibition at ]

08/04/2025

📍Today marks the opening of Ion Grigorescu's exhibition 'L’Homme – Centre de l’Univers' at the gallery in Vienna, showcasing a dialogue between the artist's early pieces and new works. The exhibition runs until May 31, 2025.

With a selection of photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures and paintings, the exhibition highlights the artist’s longstanding interest in depicting the body, everyday life, and individual’s intimate endeavours as a foundation of his varied practice. Thereby pointing to the remarkable continuity of Grigorescu’s artistic preoccupations and his longstanding ethical engagement. His film 'L'Homme - Centre de l’Univers' is also being shown, which gives the exhibition its title. It goes beyond traditional storytelling and serves as an investigative tool that explores his bodily movements and reflects the artist's holistic understanding of the world.

Gregor Podnar Vienna hosts a public conference program to celebrate the 80th birthday of Romanian artist Ion Grigorescu. The program features lectures, discussions, film projects, and seminars with Romanian and international authors, academics, curators, artists – Ciprian Mureşan (Artist),
Cosmin Costinaş (Senior Curator Exhibition Practices Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin ), Georg Schöllhammer (Curator and Editor-in-Chief of ).

In collaboration with the Romanian Cultural Institute Vienna

📷 Ion Grigorescu, Trăisteni (The Pole), 1976, produced in 2012
Courtesy the Artist and Gregor Podnar Vienna

📚 Ion Grigorescu, From static oblivion, Paris, AVARIE 2016 (special online price > link in bio)

14/03/2025

As spring returns (maybe), Avarie and celebrate the season with our first participation in the taking place on March 15–16, 2025, at HALLE 14 - Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst in Leipzig’s Baumwollspinnerei 🖤

The fourth edition of the Leipzig Photobook Festival is dedicated to the theme of "Intimate Frameworks". In addition to the book market, where national and international publishers, artists, and photographers will present their works, the Leipzig Photobook Festival will be organizing panel discussions, presentations, photobook and photo exhibitions, film screenings, a stage program, portfolio reviews, and projections.

Looking forward to meeting you there!

📍halle 14 | zentrum für zeitgenössische kunst
leipziger baumwollspinnerei
spinnereistr. 7
04179 leipzig | deutschland

📆 saturday, 15 march, 2025, 10 am – 6 pm
sunday, 16 march, 2025, 10 am – 6 pm

free admission

The Festival is organized by .verein in cooperation with

📷 © Flatform | Eleven trails, 2018, 16:9, 13'40'', sound 5:1, colour, 4k [image reproduced in Snaturamenti | a workbook by Flatform on displacement, curated by Giuliana Prucca and co-published by AVARIE | LIGHT CONE éditions, Paris, 2022]

17/02/2025

METHOD
A residency of 147 days.
23 September 2024 - 17 February 2025.

Last chance to experience 'Method' by at . Today marks the final hours to immerse yourself in his experimental residency and the artist's creative process. At the invitation of the museum, Antoine d'Agata has transformed Room 21bis 4th floor into a studio for 147 days. He has been working on his vast photographic archives, collections of objects, books, and films—reflecting on his trajectory and attempting to draw some sort of conclusion through a monumental installation, L’Atelier-monde [The World-Studio], and his 256 notebooks. This 'Method' project represents a radical shift in his practice, blending art with life in what he calls “work-praxis,” an ongoing, evolving creation.

Remembering the end of this unconventional exhibition is, in fact, a tribute to beginnings, to collaborations, to communities, and to the encounters that set new starts. AVARIE began with, and thanks to, Antoine d'Agata's Position(s), and a book is an infinite ending 🖤

17/01/2025

david lynch, 46-25 🖤
mulholland drive, 2001

it's not about watching, but about stepping inside. spaces of the in-between, at the threshold of endings and beginnings, of closings and openings. it's about dreaming.

27/11/2024

AVARIE is thrilled to make its debut at the third edition of 28 November, an Independent Book Fair hosted by the Bulevard Art and Media Institute in Tirana, Albania, from Thursday, November 28, to Sunday, December 1, 2024.
The event is part of the Tirana Art Weekend, organized by AVAN Albanian Visual Arts Network

We warmly invite you to join us. We will be showcasing a selection of AVARIE's past and recent books, along with our collection of kamera cahiers, co-curated and co-edited with Labor Neunzehn in Berlin for Kamera series | experimental films and printed matter.

purveys texts (new, used, bootlegged) that relate to independence, anarchy, spaces of exception, desire, withdrawal, noncompliance, self-management, forms of identification, love.

An Independent Book Fair is a program of bulevard's Lule Shqiponja, with very special publishers from Albania, Kosovo, and beyond.

opened in Tirana in 2021. It is located in the basement of Destil Creative Hub, in the former headquarters of Gazeta Bashkimi, a leading newspaper during the socialist regime.
Conceived as an open editorial process, Bulevard’s program has a focus on archival narratives. It centers education, social justice, intergenerational feminist and q***r practices, and the continuous search for spaces in which communities can meet and express themselves freely.

📍bulevard art and media institute
bulevardi zogu I,
godina 24-2, destil
1016 tirana | albania

📆 thursday, 28 november, 2024, 5 – 8 pm
friday, 29 – saturday, 30 november, 2024, 12 noon – 8 pm
sunday, 1 december, 2024, 11 am – 4 pm

On Friday, November 29, at 6 pm, Giuliana Prucca will present Snaturamenti | a workbook by Flatform on displacement, which she curated and published in collaboration with LIGHT CONE éditions, accompanied by a screening of a short film by the collective artist.

All and anyone is welcome 🖤

25/11/2024

Giuliana Prucca from Avarie is thrilled to be in Rome today to present ‘Devenir minéral’, her critical essay, published by Frederique Destribats | L’éditeur du dimanche, Paris, and ‘Snaturamenti | a workbook by Flatform on displacement’, a project she curated and co-published with LIGHT CONE éditions. Special thanks to Leporello and for this kind invitation 🖤

If you’re in Rome, please join us at 7 pm to discuss themes of stones, dust, and landscapes in writing, contemporary art, and moving images, as well as the role of publishing as an artistic practice. The event will also feature a screening of Flatform’s short film A Place to Come (2011).

Looking very much forward to meeting you!

Leporello – photobooks et al.
via del pigneto, 162/e
00176 rome | italy

free admission

📷 Claudio Parmiggiani, Senza titolo, 1985, burnt book, black pigment, soot

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