Isidoro Valcárcel Medina. ilimit

Madrid (Spain), 2012.

Edition of nine volumes plus two artist’s proofs plus an H.C.

CASE
Height: 21.5 cm | Width: 65 cm | Depth: 46 cm

BOOK
Height: 9.7 cm | Width: 51.3 cm | Depth: 33.2 cm

Each volume is unique and has been signed and numbered by the artist. In ilimit, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, one of the foremost representatives of Spanish conceptual art and the 2007 winner of Spain’s National Award for the Visual Arts, explores the comparison between the limited and the unlimited while proposing a reflection on seriality and exclusivity, two recurring concepts in the art world. Each volume is distinct and consists of 500 pages. The content of these pages is solely their numbering, correlative in volume after volume, from page 1 up to page 6,000. This page numbering is written using ordinal numbers in different languages, chosen randomly from a total selection of 58 languages. The books have been sewn and bound by hand in a neutral grey Saxon cloth on a 10 mm board, which protects the inside of each volume. The paper used for printing the book is Gmund 2/200 Creative System, No. 780, colour 45, of 200 g/m2, produced by Büttenpapierfabrik Gmund. Cromotex was responsible for the typesetting. The books were printed and bound by Testimonio.

Exhibitions
ilimit, Ivorypress, Madrid, 14/02/2012 – 25/02/2012
’Books beyond Artists: Words and Images‘, Ivorypress, Madrid, 24/02/2015 – 9/05/2015
ilimit, Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid, 08/02/2022 – 10/06/2022
Highlights from the Ivorypress Collection, Ivorypress, Madrid, 22/02/2022 – 17/12/2022

Provenance
Ivorypress and the artist

Collections
Private collections