Jaan Toomik – My End Is My Beginning. And My Beginning Is My End

Exhibition catalogue for the extensive solo project of an Estonian artist at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

Jaan Toomik is a world-famous video artist, painter and film director, often described as Estonia’s most brilliant figure on the world art scene. Toomik’s personal as well as group exhibitions took place on such institutionally important venues as Georges Pompidou National Centre (Paris, 2012), mumok (Vienna, 2009), National Gallery of Jeu de Paume (Paris, 2000), Hamburger Bahnhof Museum (Berlin, 1999 — 2000), 22nd International Biennial in San-Paolo (1994), Manifesta 1 (1995), 47th and 50th Venice Biennial (1997, 2003), 4th Berlin Bienniale for Contemporary Art (2006) et al. Since 2000 Jaan Toomik teaches at the Estonian Academy of Fine Arts, the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts, and is chair for the Department of Painting.

The typography of the catalogue is divided into separate bilingual sections, marked by using a different typeface from the Contrast Foundry catalogue; either set entirely using a single wight of CoFo Sans, or using a single weight of CoFo Robert for body copy, captions, notes and page numbers.