in between

The publisher: “Michael Laube transgresses the boundaries of traditional painting in his own unique way, opening them up to different dimensions of space and time. Although the color in his acrylic glass objects and installations remains captured in the surface, it still seems dematerialized, disembodied, and never concretely localized. It becomes part of the surrounding space, woven into a dynamic, variable system of forces that is formed from light.

The refractions, reflections, and highlights of the painted acrylic glass sheets, which are often arranged in layers, transform space into a multidimensional event that can be described anew again and again as one walks past it, thereby ruling out any absolute perception of Laube’s works. They challenge the viewer to change perspective and do not conform to the definition of pure objectuality. This is the first comprehensive publication to present the Berlin-based artist’s oeuvre.”

For this beautiful artbook I once again used Memphis. But this time I did the typesetting using the weights Black and Medium, that both appear totally different to Light (used for John Heartfield).

Silver endpapers!

The layout and its typography reflect the shapes and composition of the very cheerful and colourful artpieces.

I guess it became a quite extravagant and luxurious book, which was great fun designing it.

For the two languages (German/English) I chose two different colours: Black and beige.

The layout very much plays with the idea of a 3D space and it works best by flipping through the pages, enjoying the rooms and the space of the art installations.

Thanks a lot to Michael Laube and all the Belgian wafers, he brought along. And of course the great team of the Hatje Cantz Berlin office, Frauke Hahn for her fantastic job of image editing and to my intern Hannes Aechter.

Michael Laube
In Between

180 pp., 169 color ills., 1 foldout, 24,80 x 32,60 cm

September 2009