ARTFORUMx exhibition by Michael Maranda/Parasitic Ventures Press

ARTFORUMx delineates the history of Artforum magazine in visual form, revealing the number and size of advertisements that have appeared within its pages from June 1962 to the Summer 2010 edition. Each issue has been catalogued and reproduced in a uniquely distilled form. Red rectangles represent magazine content and black areas stand in for advertisements. The books in this expansive set display visual echos of constructivist graphic experiments and minimalist visual art, while diagramming the base level of the economics of publishing, the ebb and flow of the market—art or otherwise—over the last 48 years.

Art Metropole Toronto

January 13 to February 10, 2012
Opening: Friday, January 13, 6–9pm

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