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Merlin Carpenter
The Opening
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Sternberg Press
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2011
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Art direction, custom typography
and design for London-based artist
Merlin Carpenter’s paperback book
documenting his series of exhibitions
entitled The Opening
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Carpenter produced all of the paintings
for The Opening during the opening
events staged at galleries in New York,
Los Angeles, Berlin, Zurich, London
and Brussels between 2007 and 2009
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The front section of the book combines
essays by Caroline Busta with a
showcase of each event using grids of
reportage photography presented as
though cropped from a larger document.
The back section catalogues each of
the resulting paintings alongside an
email exchange between George Baker,
Merlin Carpenter and his publisher
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