In the bookshop of the 53rd Venice Biennale I happened across Peep·Hole Sheet, a new quarterly publication that has released their premier issue at this year’s Biennale. Peep·Hole is a curatorial space based in Milan and their publication has premiered with stories by Liam Gillick, whose work currently resided in the German pavilion.

The goal of Peep·Hole is “to weed out useless superstructures replacing them with a leaner relationship between artwork and viewer.” Every issue contains work by a single artist, who is selected and then has complete freedom of subject and format, so long as the writing is previously unpublished. The writing is published in the artist’s original language as well as translations in English and Italian so it is an excellent publication for students who are interested in getting a glimpse of international work. But beware this is no picture book; images and pictures are deliberately avoided. The makers of this publication are running a strictly text based operation stating that “Peep·Hole Sheet is meant for those who believe artists are catalysts for ideas all around us, and who want to read their words without any filter.”

The first issue is excellent and further investigation gives the impression that is project holds a lot of promise, artists involved with the publication include:

Mario Airò
Francesco Arena
Stefano Arienti
Simone Berti
Rossana Buremi
Gianni Caravaggio
Valerio Carrubba
Lara Favaretto
Luca Francesconi
Christian Frosi
Anna Galtarossa
Francesco Gennari
Liliana Moro
Adrian Paci
Luigi Presicce
Moira Ricci
Pietro Roccasalva
Matteo Rubbi
Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio
Ian Tweedy
Vedovamazzei
Luca Vitone

For more information check out their website.