Toit du Monde

Edition
English, Spanish, German
2002
ISBN: 978-3-03778-000-8
Hardcover, 21,3 cm x 27,7 cm
367 pages
210 color, 72 b/w

Published by Lars Müller Publisher
Autor: Françoise Ninghetto, Christian Caujolle, Conny Voester, Gunter Müller, Agustin Pérez Rubio, Michel Masserey, Janka Vunkmir, Ruxandra Balaci, Patrick Bühler, Sigismond de Vajay
Edited by Sigismond de Vajay

Toit du Monde is “the roof of the world,” it is Tibet, it is “a spirit, a sensation, a process, a building, a color pallet, a mixing table, a space for live experimentation,” and it is, most importantly in the context of this book, an independent center for multidisciplinary contemporary arts that was located in Vevey, Switzerland for ten years. Though the building that housed the alternative art center was destroyed in February 2002, the center itself has left important traces of its existence throughout the 367 pages of this book. A sample of the Underground at the core of art making.

Thirty-three international artists are represented in this publication, including Dolorès Marat, Spencer Tunick, Renate Buser, Sofa Surfers, Antoine d’Agata, Michael Ackerman, Kreidler, Oval, Terre Thaemlitz, and Luigi Archetti, among other. The volume also includes “The Potential Museum Project,” with contributions by Tobias Stengel, John Peter Nilsson, Le Corbusier, and Sigismond de Vajay, and “Trajectories,” a dynamic overview of the center’s archives, featuring projects made between 1994 and 2001.

Essays by Françoise Ninghetto, Agustin Rubio Pérez, Christian Caujolle, Conny Voester, Gunter Müller, Michel Masserey, Ruxandra Balaci, Janka Vunkmir, Patrick Bühler and Sigismond de Vajay. The elegant design and visual concept is the work of André Baldinger, a Paris based graphic designer and type font creator working at http://www.baldingervuhuu.com, also responsible for our “Of Bridges & Borders” publications.