Ludion recently published the book Variations, which offers a complete overview of Pieter Vermeersch’s career. A limited edition has now been produced as an extra-large book (33 x 23.6 cm instead of 27.5 x 20.3 cm) with a gloss laminated cover. The latter’s blue gradient has been printed mechanically, but the color and proportions were determined by the artist. Pieter Vermeersch has manipulated the cover by adding fingerprints in oil paint – an intervention that pulls the abstract image back into the reality of the moment. This special edition refers directly to Vermeersch’s 2012 work on photography, in which he placed fingerprints in oil paint on C-Prints.

 

Each copy is signed and numbered by the artist, while the colours of the fingerprints on the cover are different for each book.