Based on Life and Works by Italian conceptual artist Piero Manzoni published by Jens Petersen, AA Bronson: Life and Works consists of 88 blank pages of reflective semi-transparent sheets of plastic, bound by a plastic clip and printed only with the book’s title, publisher, and the place and date of publication.
“The ‘remake’, conceived by AA Bronson, performs a discrete yet profound metamorphosis on Jes Petersen’s version of Manzoni’s Life and Works. With the Life and Works of the Italian artist, a certain doubt was permitted: did he want to eliminate the materiality of the book object and materialise the emptiness or the effacing itself? Besides the promising title, Life and Works - chosen by Manzoni shortly before his death - is all the more troubling, knowing that both the content and the text are absent. But the position of this book, announcing itself as blank, evanescent, untouched, and empty is contradicted - in reality - by the hyper-materiality of the block of transparent, plastic pages, which are colored gold throughout, and present some reflective properties; without the transparency being a mirror, or the emptiness a reflection.”
–from the publisher.