‘Pavel Büchler: 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.

‘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.’

P.B.