Artist's book
The Green Book
Adel Abdessemed
2002
publisher·sLa Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes
co-publisher(s)Centre national d’art et du paysage de Vassivière
Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims
Frac Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-les-Rouen
technical characteristics52,1 x 25,5 cm
104 pages
french
color, black & white
price26,30 €
“The Green Book contains my collection of national anthems. Each anthem has been hand-written by a different person from his/her native tongue. It’s a very familiar book, a kind of manifest… Of course, the fact that the French anthem has been hissed in the French Stadium stands has relaunched the project. Like this incident, the book expresses a malaise, a social urgency”
Adel Abdessemed, extract of the interview with Guy Tortosa in Le Journal des Arts, n°63, 24 January 2004.