In November 2005, El Semanario de lo insólito, the Mexican version of The Weekly World News, published a feature on Ilán Lieberman, the amazing Human Photocopier: he turns any scrap of paper into a work of art! and can copy anything by hand, just like a photocopying machine!
This article coincided with Lieberman's exhibition Desperdicio (Waste) at Celda Contemporánea in Mexico City.
Here are the works exhibited in Waste and featured in El Semanario de lo insólito. These are photographs, not of the objects themselves but of the handmade copies--imitations, facsimiles, reproductions, replicas, forgeries, counterfeits, fakes, knockoffs--of those objects. Click on any image to enlarge it, and you may be able to see traces of the artist's hand.
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Boarding Pass (Self Portrait)
graphite and pencil on paper
8.1 X 5.5 cm.
2005
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Phone Call
colored pencil on paper
4.2 X 5 cm.
2005 |
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Card
colored pencil on paper
8.8 X 6.3 cm.
2005 |
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Win4
graphite and colored pencil on paper
11.3 X 8 cm.
2005 |
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Lunch
colored pencil on paper
2.5 x 2.5 cm.
2005 |
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Teleph. Acc. Code
colored pencil on paper
3.8 x 5.1 cm.
2005 |
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Apply Now
colored pencil on paper
6.3 x 8.3 cm.
2005 |
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Guest Check
graphite and colored pencil on paper
15.7 x 8.8 cm.
2005
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Coping Stones
colored pencil on paper
5.4 x 6.3 cm.
2005 |
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Terminal Issued
colored pencil on paper
6.7 x 3.9 cm.
2005 |
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Document to Show
colored pencil on paper
7.1 x 5.2 cm.
2005 |
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Learn Chinese
colored pencil on paper
1.6 x 5.6 cm.
2005
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Envelope
graphite and colored pencil on paper
8.2 x 1.8 cm.
2005 |
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Straw
colored pencil on paper
5.8 x 2.1 cm.
2005 |
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Blue Strip
graphite and colored pencil on paper
23.2 x 2.8 cm.
2005 |
Ilán Lieberman lives and works in Mexico City.
He has had one man shows at Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City; Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles; the Gallery of the Prince Claus Foundation, Amsterdam; El Paso Musuem of Art, El Paso; the Mexico City Museum, and elsewhere. He has participated in group shows at the Museum of Modern Art, Paris; the Nordic Watercolor Museum, Sweden; the Art Gallery of the San Francisco State University; the Art Gallery of the University of California San Diego; the Centre for Fine Arts BOZAR, Brussels; Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Gran Canaria, Spain; International Center of Photography, New York; MUAC, Mexico City; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; La Colección Jumex, Mexico, and elsewhere.
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