The _onestar stop_ by Hans Schabus at the Centre Culturel Français de Turin, Italy

To complement this original design, the “onestar stop” is presented alongside specially commissioned 4 x 3 meters LARGE IMAGES by Pierre Bismuth, Christophe Boutin, Diego Perrone, Jennifer Allora, Guillermo Calzadilla and Abraham Cruzvillegas

During the opening reception, the LARGE IMAGES will be pasted and hung on the interior walls of the French Cultural Center by a professional poster hanger. This performance will be brief and will not be repeated.

At he occasion of the “onestar stop” show at the Centre Culturel Français de Turin a new issue of Afterart News is published featuring articles on onestar press’s new productions; John Tremblay, Chloe Piene, Mark Dion and Bob Braine, Elvire Bonduelle and more.

opening reception : Monday June 5th 2006 from 7:00 pm At 5:30 pm - Talk on artist’s book with Christophe Boutin (artist), Philippe Buschinger (artist), Cornelia Lauf (art historian), Beatrice Merz, President of the Fondazione Merz

Exhibition from June 5th to October 6th 2006.

Monday - Friday 10:00 am - 08:00 pm Saturday 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Centre Culturel Français de Turin via Pomba, 23 - T. + (39) 011 515 75 11 www.france-torino.it

1* x 5 Since it’s founding 5 years ago, onestar press has proven itself to be attracted by hybrid styles, borderline activities, crossover artists, networks, the constantly mutating potential of the internet and the frontier of public and private spheres. The press’s grassroots foundations and expanding digital networks embody an internet paradox a kind of daisy-chain complicity across borders. onestar press is a bricks & clicks collective that gives artists and their publics actual alternatives for expression and distribution, the kind of exposure that counts highly in our age of hype and art fair bloat. onestar publishes work across the spectrum, not only by superstars but by “struggling” artists as well. The press’s storied tagline - strictly un-edited by the publisher - perfectly embodies it’s principles: it’s the artist’s work that counts, not the publisher’s politics, or even his bottom line. That’s a part of the reason that onestar press’s success is so richly deserved: 125 artists published, almost as many multiples and videos, installations created in major museums and gallery spaces with architects and curators, travelling shows, international conferences, university workshops, a newspaper (Afterart News) and, far from the maddening crowd, many of the best art parties anyone has ever attended. 5 years, onestar! And here’s to many more years of creative energy, eye-popping art and the great international underground you’ve become! Richard Dailey, 2006

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La galerie erna hécey est heureuse de présenter la collection complète des livres d’artistes édités par onestar press dans un mobilier conçu par Hans Schabus et le nouveau poster de John Armleder.

Et les multiples de John Armleder, Pierre Bismuth, Kendell Geers, Beat Streuli.

galerie erna hécey rue des fabriques 1c fabrieksstraat bruxelles 1000 t. +32.2 502 00 24 www.ernahecey.com

For onestar stop, Austrian artist Hans Schabus has designed something like a bus or a train stop, made out of cheap plywood, easy to assemble and disassemble, 3 meters long, in five sections (each section holds the books from one of onestar press’s years in existence). The books are shelved behind the seats, and a “stop sign” with one red star rises from the top. The module can be extended for future onestar press publications. To complement this original design, the onestar stop is presented alongside a specially commissioned 4 x 3 metre poster by Christophe Boutin, with a text by Jan Avgikos, the American based art critic. The Installation is a stunning way to present the onestar press’ “encyclopedic” production of books by artists. The readers / viewers can enjoy the books while waiting for the mythical onestar bus to take them to their point of destination.

Hans Schabus’ onestar stop is limited to an edition of 8, plus 2 artists’ proofs. This installation of onestar stop at Art Metropole was built and constructed in Toronto by Canadian artist Melanie Zanker of Mazzie Design and Associates (http://www.mazzie.ca). The onestar stop is available for purchase through Art Metropole. onestar books on display in the onestar stop will be also available individually by special order through Art Metropole.

Tune In. Turn On… To onestar press Plenty of people feel that the art world has become a veritable machine driven by the interests of big money, shallow collectors, unscrupulous dealers, and assorted power mongers who evince little regard for anything less than flavor-of-the-month “trophy art.” The young artist, whose career arcs in a year or two, is beset with pressure to succeed immediately or not at all. Paradoxically, as artists mature beyond their 20s and 30s and get much better at what they do, their chances of success diminish exponentially. The best antidote to tough times is brewed from entrepreneurial spirit and collaborative energy, compounded by inventive means of distribution. This palliative aids in the creation of dynamic formations with new centers of gravity that tease out lethargy and renew our determination not only to make the world our own, but to have a good time doing it, too. onestar press keeps coming on strong. Find the future here. Jan Avgikos, 2006

New onestar press Publication Coinciding with the exhibition, and in collaboration with Art Metropole, onestar press is publishing a new artists’ book, Smurfistan, by Canadian artist Jamelie Hassan. The bookwork presents fragments from her recent Smurfistan installations of the spatial realm of the room of a young child. The smurfs, created by Peyo, were very popular among children in the 1980’s. In this calamity of children’s toys - Smurfs preside and soldiers, cowboys, dragons, dinosaurs dispute with each other. Hassan focuses on the world of a child, learning situations and the rupture of socio-cultural norms. The bookwork also contains a companion text, “Children & Social Spaces : Why Did Derrida Say No” by Ottawa-based fiction writer Marwan Hassan.

Jamelie Hassan was born in London, Ontario and continues to make this her home. Her works are part of numerous collections, such as the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. In 2001 she received the Governor General’s Award in recognition of 30 years of contribution to visual arts in Canada.