Part one
Robin Waart / Robin R. Waart
ISBN 978-90-902617-6-8
Book design by Jonas Wandeler (Atlas Studio, Zurich)
16 x 24 x 2.3 cm / 6.3 x 9.5 x 0.9 in
216 pages (101 Part one pages)
Japanese bound with torn pages
Risoprint (interior), screen printed cover
First edition (2010): 101 copies (not for sale), as part of an installation
Second edition (2011): 202 and 22 slipcased copies with an original Part one page
Third edition (2023): 303 copies with inverted black dust jacket
Part one is literally about beginning. The book binds together a collection of 101 found ‘Part one’ pages, reproducing the original page sizes, fonts and typographic placing. Printed in 2010 for an installation of 101 copies that were intended to stay together, followed by a market edition of 202 the next year and reissued in 303 copies with inverted white-on-black dust jackets in 2023, quoting Albert Camus about Sisyphus – an ongoing rehearsal, asking what it means to keep (or not give up) beginning.
Selected as one of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books/Schönste Schweizer Bücher of 2010 & one of the Best Verzorgde Boeken/Best Dutch Book Designs of 2011
Moritz Küng, ‘Telkens opnieuw beginnen’ Tubelight #109, April 2019, pp. 8-11
Lise Lotte ten Voorde, ‘Altijd tekortschieten. Part one’, Tubelight, 28 April 2011
For all 101 Part one pages see Part one. For images of the first edition and the installation see It's hard to stop beginning and Graduation show.
For the installation/wall piece with 101 other Part ones see Part one and It's hard to stop beginning.