Böcker av Timo Vaittinen

A collection of 168 collages made with Xerox machines and publications in Helsinki University Library, Brooklyn Central Public Library, The Stockholm Public Library and Bibliotheek Sint-Gillis in Brussels between 2013 and 2016. Author: Timo VaittinenDesigner: Timo Vaittinen

The artist's book consists of risograph printed images of 21 sculptures created for Animal Housing Fair, an art festival in Loviisa, Finland. Organic materials were gathered on site, rearranged in the studio, and returned to the original location. Foreword by ant researcher Heikki Helantera, professorof evolutionary biology, University of Oulu, Finland. Author: Timo VaittinenDesigner: Timo Vaittinen

A comic album once discarded from a public library and later found on the street by the artist on his way to his studio is transformed in to a series of abstract collages. Using simple cut and paste tactics a collection of science fiction narratives is reorganised in to images drifting away from definition to be reproduced as risograph prints on the pages of Flashback Gordon.