The 2017 SF Art Book Fair is an annual multi-day festival of artists’ publications. This event is free and open to the public and will feature artists’ books, art catalogs, monographs, periodicals, zines, printed ephemera, and multiples. These works will be presented by over 100 independent publishers, antiquarian dealers, artists, collectors, and enthusiasts. Over the course of the weekend, the fair will be complemented by a diverse range of talks, discussions, book launches, on and off-site special projects, exhibitions and signings.
The mission of the fair is to foster the unique art publishing community of the Bay Area while providing a platform for national and international publishers to exhibit their work to a new audience.
The SF Art Book Fair will be held at Minnesota Street Project. The project’s landmark location, 1275 Minnesota Street, houses 10 galleries, a not-for-profit, temporary exhibitions spaces, media room, and a recently opened restaurant.
Preview: Friday, July 21st: 6pm – 10pm
Saturday, July 22nd: 11am – 6pm
Sunday, July 23rd: 11am – 5pm
Location: 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco CA 94107
Free and Open to the Public
For more information, visit http://www.sfartbookfair.com
Featured Italian Artist
blisterZine is a self-publishing and publishing project (since 2009) by NASTYNASTY©, with the purpose to promote the artist’s book as an art object, using the space of a book in an open and intimate way at the same time.
Emiliano Biondelli and Valentina Venturi make up NASTYNASTY©, a group of artists founded in 2008. The group strives to investigate the impact of photography on our culture and the power it has to condition our perception of the world and our criteria of authenticity through various media.
Booksigning of the book Anatomy of the E-commerce, at SFABF on July 23 at 3pm
blisterZine books have been exhibited at the Artists Space (NY), Cleveland Art Museum, Miami Public Library, Corvi e Mora Gallery (London), Museo Marino Marini (Florence) and Museo Camera (Turin). blisterZine books have also been purchased by Moma Library and Brooklyn Museum Library among others.