My newest publication with Conveyor Editions, designed by Christina Labey, is being released in time for the NYABF and Arbor Day. A Tree Grows in Queens reflects on the many ways in which trees manifest into other things - myths, memes, monuments and more. Telling the stories of ten trees found in NYC (from the Harlem Wishing Tree to a Tulip tree considered the city’s oldest) the book explores topics from climate catastrophe and zombie capitalism to the radical power of touch and the place of memory making. Book available through Conveyor Editions here.
I Looked & Looked Hardcover edition launch at Printed Matter 9/28
On Thursday, September 28th, a hardcover edition of I Looked & Looked will launch at Printed Matter to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the lunar-themed love letters that inspired the project.
SF Art Book Fair 7/15-7/17
It seems surreal to say but The Moon & Stars Can e Yours will have it’s official debut this weekend at the San Francisco Art Book Fair! It is taking place from Friday the 15th to Sunday the 17th at Minnesota Street Project with a preview on Thursday night! Moon & Stars will be available at the Conveyor Editions table and as always is available for purchase through their site.
Pink Dogwood
The first chapter, Pink Dogwood, of my forthcoming publication A Tree Grows in Queens, is now available for pre-order from Conveyor Editions via this link: https://www.conveyor.studio/shop/p/ce-21
PM Art Book Fair Studio Visit
Conveyor Editions. Studio Visit: Magali Duzant.
Join us for a preview of Magali's new zine, A Tree Grows in Queens, and learn about her process of working with image, text, and archives in the book format. Link coming soon via the Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair. February 27, 2021, 2pm EST. Zoom link : https://zoom.us/j/98165630053
Imprimé | Intimé | Collection at Galerie UQO
The Moon and Stars Can Be Yours is on view in the exhibition, Imprimé / Intimé / Collection curated by Collectif Blanc at Galerie UQO in Canada.
The Exhibition Imprimé / Intimé / Collection organized by Collectif Blanc presents itself as an immersive library where mini-collections of publications and objects are displayed, courtesy of around fifty publishers, designers, authors and artists. The device is augmented by the works of four visual artists who approach, in turn, the personal and encyclopedic archive (Celia Perrin Sidarous), the assembly of the book and the collection (Derek Sullivan), as well as the material qualities and of the print (Marie-Michelle Deschamps and Bryan-K. Lamonde).
The Moon and Stars Can Be Yours : Notes On Subway Psychics Book Launch // Printed Matter 10.24.19
October 24th , 6-8 pm Printed Matter will host the official launch for The Moon & Stars Can be Yours.
Book available for purchase here.
Launch link : https://www.printedmatter.org/programs/events/982
The Moon and Stars Can Be Yours is a freewheeling, far-roaming investigation into the contemporary world of spiritualism that began with Duzant’s obsessive collection of psychic fliers on the New York City subway system combined with ephemera from the NYPL Pictures Collection. In an age of increasing uncertainty, the wave of modern mysticism is always present, eagerly waiting to fill the void created by our digital lives. Duzant weaves together research-based writing with anecdotal stories, inviting the reader along for her ritualistic search for meaning, following the path of the Spiritualist and New Age movements.
The Moon and Stars Can Be Yours is playfully designed, the holographic foil and neon paper stocks are inspired by the fliers found on the subway. In the back of each book, a scratch off fortune card awaits the reader. The Moon and Stars Can Be Yours is the third book by Magali Duzant published by Conveyor Editions. Her previous books Light Blue Desire and I Looked & Looked, will also be available at the launch.
Offprint London
AIPAD / Book Signing April 7th
Once In A Blue Moon Book Launch is an Artnet Editors' Pick!
Editors' Pick for this week, see here
Thursday, February 1
8. “Once in a Blue Moon” at Printed Matter, Inc.
A book launch and reading celebrating the release of Magali Duzant’s Light Blue Desire: A Manual to the Color Blue, aptly taking place on the evening of the astronomical phenomenon of a blue moon. The book is an investigation into the connection between language and form, specifically the color blue and how it functions as a metaphor and an idiom in the broad cultural landscape.
Location: Printed Matter, Inc., 231 11th Avenue
Price: Free
Time: Book launch & reading: 6 p.m.–8 p.m.
—Caroline Goldstein
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/editors-picks-january-29-1201628
Once In A Blue Moon / Book Launch for Light Blue Desire at Printed Matter Feb 1
Feb 1, 2018 6 - 8 PM Printed Matter 231 11th Ave New York, NY 10001
Join us for the launch of Light Blue Desire: A Manual to the Color Blue by Magali Duzant published by Conveyor Editions. The evening—which fittingly coincides with a very rare blue moon*—will include a two-channel video of the moon filmed during this rare astronomical event. In addition, Duzant will give a reading from her recent publications Light Blue Desireand I Looked & Looked, which both explore our relationship to language, color, and the night sky.
Light Blue Desire (2018) investigates the power, failure, and fluidity of language. The project, in its current incarnation as an artist book, lyrically maps the amorphous definition and meaning of the word blue across languages. The collection of idioms reveals a compendium of contradictions; concepts around a color that is both high and low, peaceful and pornographic, melancholic and manipulative, and consistently voted the world’s favorite color. How and why does blue seep into our speech, color our thoughts, lap into our languages?
Artists for Puerto Rico
A box set of I Looked & Looked ( books and 2 metallic shimmer prints ) is available with all proceeds going directly to relief efforts in Puerto Rico. Here
