Anouk Kruithof’s massive wall of colored books echoes two leitmotivs in book art — the installation and the presumed disappearance of the book in the onslaught of digital media. Reminiscent of pixels on the computer screen, the work is entitled Enclosed Content Chatting Away In The Colour Invisibility and consists of over 3,500 books rescued from the recycling dump and whose arrangement varies with each installation. Kruithof has stated that she seeks to “invent new things out of fragments of the past.’
2005, site specific installation, Casa de America, Madrid
Alicia Martín’s installation, called Biografias, has appeared in Madrid, The Hague, Cordoba, Linz and Valencia. The torrent of defenestrated books is made of over 5,000 titles fixed to a wire frame.
Matej Kren is another book installation artist, whose thoughtful, towering installations have been featured in Prague and numerous other cities in this hemisphere.
Although Brian Goggin does not use actual books as his material, his works in bronze, polycarbonate, steel and LED prompt reflections on books, language, the transmission of ideas, permanence and impermanence.
Bronze, site-specific installation
Lafayette Library, Lafayette, California
Looking back to the late 19th century, you will find that Myanmar can lay claim to the world’s largest book.
Photographs by Anandajoti Bhikkhu
Photographs by Anandajoti Bhikkhu
For other large-scale book art installations and why they might be enjoyable, take a look here.
Books On Books 
should look at artist William Cordova’s two column book sculpture, Untitled (George Jackson / Miguel Hernandez) at Sikkma Jenkins in Jan 2020
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Thanks. I’ve written to Sikkema Jenkins for more information about the piece. The only photo I can find is too small to detect the compositional details. Cordova seems not to have a website, so if you know of a link to more details, do share it? Cheers, BobB
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