(video)	Raymundo Colares Gibi 1972 Unique artist's book 11 1/4 x 8 5/8 in. (28.5 x 22 cm) Francisco Terranova, Rio de Janeiro In Portuguese, Gibi means comic book, an odd name for these formally rigorous and elegant books that are without recognizable imagery or text. Like many artists of his generation, Colares mixed concrete art and other geometric traditions with popular culture to imbue his work with a dynamic sense of immediate, everyday experience. At the same time as they pay tribute to an orderly art, his Gibis embrace arbitrariness and flux. These books—made of cut papers of different sizes, shapes, and colors—offer a wealth of options on any given two-page spread. Move one of perhaps six available elements, and a dramatically new composition appears that is complete in itself but also a fragment of the whole book. To a great extent, the reading experience depends on viewers, who move through the books at their own pace, forward or backward, creating new configurations when and if they choose.