Luanne Martineau

Freakout, 2007
64 pages 100% rag paper, archival ink. 48 colour plates
Edition of 50, made-to-order.
ISBN 0-9736853-3-6,
Published by FLASK, Victoria B.C.
Martineau has produced a rich hybrid of material, form and meaning that is neither catalogue or sculpture. The artist re-works each cover of this bookwork, grafting polymorphous forms with grey and coloured fleece onto the existing industrial grey felt surface. Inside, the texts are transplants from a range of history: German surrealist Hannah Hoch, Oscar Wilde, the British novelist Angela Carter, Woody Allen, Louis Bourgeois and philosopher/theorist Georges Bataille are intertwined with documentary photographs from the Department of Architecture archives at the University of British Columbia and images of the artist’s recent work.