{"product_id":"rare-i-am-here-to-build-jurusolom-artist-book","title":"RARE I Am Here To Build Jurusolom artist book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 255);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eL-13 Rejects and Rarities Dept\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA handmade book made for the exhibition \u003cem\u003esex crimes of the futcher\u003c\/em\u003e at Simon Finch Art in 2004.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSimon Finch, a prestigious rare book dealer opened a short lived art gallery on Portobello Road in 2004 and Billy was invited to be one of the first artists to be exhibited. We also used the occasion to launch the publication of his third novel of the same title and The Buff Medways (Billy's band at the time) played a gig at the private view.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt this time Billy had been revisiting a series of self-portraits he had made 22 years earlier and the new self-portraits featured heavily in the exhibition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his introduction to this book he says:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"i painted these self portrates directly after a series of 50 or so i banged together over the summer of 1982\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ewhere as the 1980s paintings show a hard and shell-like youth these paintings - made 22 years on - show a much more mortal human being\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003elife is about letting go and getting ready to die\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ethat sounds like a big deal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ebut theres a lot of fun and humour to be had if you dont over identify with your achivments or build a fortress of credentials\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ejust touch it and let it go\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book's plates start with a self-portrait drawing from 1982 then has reproductions of 5 contemporary paintings pigment printed on Hahnemuhle paper, and ends with a photographic self-portrait of the artst as a young man. The title is taken from the title of a poem, also printed in the book.\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e100 copies were made bound in the Belgian lined Billy uses for his canvases. Each one has the artist's hand or foot printed on the front cover in acrylic paint. They were all supposed to be hands but Billy got bored halfway through and swapped to a footprint. He then drew 100 self portraits in pencil on the front endpaper, which in itself is a remarkable feat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe have here for sale number 53\/100 with the footprint on the front and an Artist Proof copy with the handprint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth in excellent condition with a touch of tanning to the back of the foot copy. We used lining wallpaper for the endpapers \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eand title\/text pages as we wanted something raw and low grade, but this has tanned with age around the edges, also staining the edges of the first self-portrait. All copies we've seen are like this.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003emade by \u003cem\u003ethe aquarium\u003c\/em\u003e, 2004\u003cbr\u003e37 x 22 cm\u003cbr\u003e20 pages\u003cbr\u003eEdition of 100 copies painted, drawn, signed and numbered by the artist\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Billy Childish","offers":[{"title":"Handprint AP","offer_id":58596504240459,"sku":"IAHTBJ-HP","price":1950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Footprint 53\/100","offer_id":58596504273227,"sku":"IAHTBJ-FP","price":1950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1021\/9185\/7995\/files\/Billy_Childish_I_Am_Here_to_Build_Jurrusolom_2_a5bc6aea-9758-4543-8b0c-7aa300e78f1d.jpg?v=1790347377","url":"https:\/\/l-13.org\/products\/rare-i-am-here-to-build-jurusolom-artist-book","provider":"L-13","version":"1.0","type":"link"}