‘Variable Pieces’ is a collection of letter press prints from 2011-2023 made by the artist. It is the first book to document such works from the conceptual and language-based artist and runs in a limited edition of 500.

Printed in black on letterpress in an edition of twenty-six, with additional unique red, green and blue versions, this alphabet-oriented series was produced using the seminal painter, typographer, and concrete poet Edward Wright’s original wood type blocks and proofing press.

“In 1988, a small proofing press with a bed measuring 15 × 25 inches that had belonged to my friend, the painter, typographer and graphic artist, Edward Wright came into my hands.

Twenty-three years on, in 2011, the newspaper designer Edwin Taylor offered me several more-or-less complete sets of wood type, alongside a number of other loose samples that had also belonged to Edward.

Some time later, another friend, the artist J. H. Kocman, gave me an assortment of modern plastic letters from the Czech font Pražské Kamenné (Prague Stone Gothic) that had been discarded as surplus from an art school in Brno.

The imperfections, limitations, and obsolete honesty of this equipment, with which I make most of my prints, make the works what they are.”–Pavel Büchler

Pavel Büchler
‘Variable Pieces’, 2023
English
Edited by Pavel Büchler, Andrew Hunt
Published by Slimvolume, London
Printed by Page Bros
Designed by Pavel Büchler
Publication photographed by Nick Ash
Softcover
21x21 cm
8¼x8¼ in
108 pp.
ISBN 978-1-910516-26-3