Multinational Enterprises

I am an artist, self-publisher and artists’ book collector. In 2012 I established Multinational Enterprises as a platform for my publications—exploring different themes within the book format—following and extending the tradition and roots of the artists’ books that emerged in the early 1960s. My goal is to be an active part of the publishing community and to present my artists’ books to an international audience of art book lovers.

Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson, Commercial Sample, Multinational Enterprises, 2024 © Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson

250 × 353 × 8 mm

22 loose leaves

Spine bar bound

Rubber stamped recto/verso and perforated throughout

Shipped in brown kraft paper circulation bag

Each unique, signed and dated

Edition of 50

Commercial Sample is a project conforming to the international customs regulations stating that a book can only be sent as a gift from a private individual to another private individual: A donation or a gift from an artist, a small press or a self-publisher—to a library, a gallery or a private individual—can or will be subject to import duties and taxes and are often returned to the sender after circulating within the grey zones of the postal system.

This publication is created as a commercial sample in the spirit of the Mail art tradition, exploiting the vocabulary of the customs system in order to be subject to duty relief and VAT exemption. For the purpose of qualifying to be identified as a sample, it has been altered to be made unsuitable for resale by means of perforation and rubber stamping. This publication may never be sold commercially and is to be imported solely with the intention of obtaining future orders for the type of goods it represents.

Shipped in brown kraft paper circulation bag with punched holes.

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Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson, Commercial Sample, Multinational Enterprises, 2024 © Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson

Spread from Commercial Sample

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No Known Last Address—Artists’ Postcard Edition II

Second of 12 editions—each with works by 12 artists—to be released annually over a period of 12 years

Works by Andrea Bakketun, Bobrikova & de Carmen, Heman Chong & Renée Staal, Marius Engh, Jesper Fabricius, Fiona Banner aka The Vanity press, Ane Mette Hol, Dominique Hurth, Imi Maufe, Sigurður Atli Sigurðsson, Robel Temesgen, Ivana Vollaro

Edited by Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson
Oslo, Norway: 2024
112 × 164 × 7 mm
12 loose cards
Wrapped in dust-jacket [326 × 148 mm]
Sealed in a glassine paper mailer
Digital print
Edition of 120

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