L'esprit d'escalier
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Stairs, ladders and lifts are the motifs of Thomas Demand's latest monograph, L'Esprit d'Escalier, which is published on the occasion of his show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. The title actually refers to so-called "staircase wit," that concise French expression for the chagrin of missed retorts--those hapless comebacks one only ever thinks up belatedly(...)
L'esprit d'escalier
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Stairs, ladders and lifts are the motifs of Thomas Demand's latest monograph, L'Esprit d'Escalier, which is published on the occasion of his show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. The title actually refers to so-called "staircase wit," that concise French expression for the chagrin of missed retorts--those hapless comebacks one only ever thinks up belatedly (i.e. when already descending the stairs): "I should've said (fill in blank)!" etc. One of Demand's ironic allusions to his title is a new work titled "Landing," which shows the shards of broken Qing vases on a staircase--a mishap caused by a visitor to The Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge in January 2006, who stumbled on his shoelaces and crashed into the three eighteenth-century vases, smashing them to pieces. As ever, Demand combines conceptual rigor and exacting craft in his painstakingly re-created sets, with their eerie edge of artifice. L'Esprit d'Escalier presents an overview of his current work in 23 large photographs, plus a film project and an architectural installation specially prepared for his Irish Museum exhibition. Alongside an excerpt from David Foster Wallace's Girl with Curious Hair, it also includes commissioned writings by Dave Eggers, Paul Oliver, Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith, Rachael Thomas and Enrique Juncosa.
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Thomas Struth
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Thomas Struth's most recent project, "Making Time," was exhibited at the Prado, Madrid, in the winter and spring of 2007, and is now compiled in this handsome catalogue from Turner. Making Time continues Struth's established work on the subject of public art venues, and consists of photographs depicting the Prado's famous collection and its visitors, photographs that were(...)
Thomas Struth
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Thomas Struth's most recent project, "Making Time," was exhibited at the Prado, Madrid, in the winter and spring of 2007, and is now compiled in this handsome catalogue from Turner. Making Time continues Struth's established work on the subject of public art venues, and consists of photographs depicting the Prado's famous collection and its visitors, photographs that were displayed throughout the Prado during his exhibit, as part of the museum's current ambition to open up fresh perspectives on its holdings. Over the course of two years, Struth made more than 400 images in and around the Prado, showing an "inhabited" public space, and highlighting the interactions between the exhibited paintings and their viewers. This volume also marks the first presentation of Struth's earlier work, from the spring of 2005, on Velazquez's great "Las Meninas" (1656), itself a classic study of spectatorship. The result is a multilayered dialogue between Struth, the Prado, its collection and its visitors.
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House hunting
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The first monograph on the work of Todd Hido, "House hunting", was named as Best First Monograph by Photo-Eye. It is classic Hido; large color photographs of suburban homes at night, radiating contrasts of warmth and cold, loneliness and comfort, dark and light.
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January 2007, Portland (OR)
House hunting
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The first monograph on the work of Todd Hido, "House hunting", was named as Best First Monograph by Photo-Eye. It is classic Hido; large color photographs of suburban homes at night, radiating contrasts of warmth and cold, loneliness and comfort, dark and light.
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A significant part of the work of artistic researcher Martin Tscholl (DE) involves walking through meadows, forests, and mountains. Here, he encounters a web of interconnections that extends far beyond the realm of humans. This web is inhabited by a wide variety of organisms, materials, and processes that are mutually dependent and in permanent change. By actively looking(...)
Martin Tscholl: Imaginary ecologies
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A significant part of the work of artistic researcher Martin Tscholl (DE) involves walking through meadows, forests, and mountains. Here, he encounters a web of interconnections that extends far beyond the realm of humans. This web is inhabited by a wide variety of organisms, materials, and processes that are mutually dependent and in permanent change. By actively looking out for these other beings located in the margins of our phenomenal perception, a correspondence between the human and the non-human spheres starts to unfold. In this process, positions emerge in which the apparent opposites of the rational and irrational, life and non-life, art and nature, converge. Tscholl’s photography allows us to recognise the silent fragments of nature as being different from us, but also as originating from the same ontological ground. The many mystical objects in this book seem like they could come to life at any moment, giving us a warm sense of connection.
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Michael Yuan: The bridge
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"At last the mighty task is done; Resplendent in the western sun" These are the first lines of a poem by Joseph B. Strauss, Chief Engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge. Acknowledged as one of the most phenomenal architectural and natural monuments in the world, the iconic orange bridge spans the one-mile-wide strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. From(...)
Michael Yuan: The bridge
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"At last the mighty task is done; Resplendent in the western sun" These are the first lines of a poem by Joseph B. Strauss, Chief Engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge. Acknowledged as one of the most phenomenal architectural and natural monuments in the world, the iconic orange bridge spans the one-mile-wide strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. From the opening in 1937 until this day forward, the overpass has been photographed and illustrated immeasurable times, mystifying an achievement no one ever considered possible. Every year forty million vehicles travel between the orange cables, welcoming visitors from around the world. With "The bridge" Michael Yuan (CA) paints an intimate portrait of the Golden Gate Bridge, a challenge towards the well-known perspectives of the monument, often observed in its mind-blowing entirety and completeness. The bridge in all its characteristic faces that have never been presented before. A study of its form, lines, shapes and distinctive colour: the imposing towers, stylised street lamps, gigantic cables, bolts, plates – each with their own distinctive geometry and shape, colour, sound and light.
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Published on the occasion of the Tokyo Art Book Fair 2023, which included a section dedicated to publishers and artists from Nordic countries, Takashi Homma presents his new photobook "Islands, islets, and their mushrooms" in collaboration with Tove Jansson translator Keiko Morishita. Homma’s photographs capture the beauty of the islands and the sea between them, but(...)
Takashi Homma: Islands, islets, and their mushrooms
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Published on the occasion of the Tokyo Art Book Fair 2023, which included a section dedicated to publishers and artists from Nordic countries, Takashi Homma presents his new photobook "Islands, islets, and their mushrooms" in collaboration with Tove Jansson translator Keiko Morishita. Homma’s photographs capture the beauty of the islands and the sea between them, but also offer a brief photographic account of the various mushrooms that grow in the region. The photographs are interspersed with personal essays written by Keiko Morishita (who served as Homma’s coordinator) about his own experiences on the islands and the lives of the people who live there.
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Standing on the property line between two apartment buildings with adjacent driveways, American photographer Thomas Locke Hobbs was reminded of a Renaissance painting, ''The Ideal City of Urbino'', where the illusion of space is achieved when receding lines that establish spatial relationships converge at a central vanishing point. It inspired his book ‘L.A. Vedute’, a(...)
Thomas Locke Hobbs: L.A Vedute
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Standing on the property line between two apartment buildings with adjacent driveways, American photographer Thomas Locke Hobbs was reminded of a Renaissance painting, ''The Ideal City of Urbino'', where the illusion of space is achieved when receding lines that establish spatial relationships converge at a central vanishing point. It inspired his book ‘L.A. Vedute’, a documentary study of domestic architecture in Los Angeles. The work presents the way shared spaces recede to a common vanishing point, largely unpopulated and deserted, akin to movie sets where the actors have disappeared. Through metaphors of alienation, Hobbs exposes a city in conflict and coexistence.
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"Work in progress" is a dramatic presentation of Peter Essick's four-year project oflow-level aerial photographs of construction sites in the Atlanta Metro area.Essick said about his work, "It wasn't until I started flying a drone that I realizedconstruction sites offered so many different visual perspectives. The textures andcolors of human-altered landscapes are(...)
Peter Essick: Work in progress
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"Work in progress" is a dramatic presentation of Peter Essick's four-year project oflow-level aerial photographs of construction sites in the Atlanta Metro area.Essick said about his work, "It wasn't until I started flying a drone that I realizedconstruction sites offered so many different visual perspectives. The textures andcolors of human-altered landscapes are endlessly fascinating. Seeing andphotographing this landscape from the air has opened up for me new ways ofcreative expression. Construction sites change by the day, and the light andexposure are never the same. Wood, steel, and concrete relate to each other ininfinite varieties of order and disorder." "Work in progress" is a unique vision of a human-altered landscape.
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Thomas Locke Hobbs: Rampitas
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Motorcycles are the mode of choice to get around in Medellín, Colombia. In the working-class districts that climb the steep slopes of the Valle de Aburrá, residents have self-built elaborate neighborhoods outside of formal urban planning. While humans can walk up steps, wheeled vehicles require ramps. From the basic need to wheel your bike inside at night, a vast(...)
Thomas Locke Hobbs: Rampitas
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Motorcycles are the mode of choice to get around in Medellín, Colombia. In the working-class districts that climb the steep slopes of the Valle de Aburrá, residents have self-built elaborate neighborhoods outside of formal urban planning. While humans can walk up steps, wheeled vehicles require ramps. From the basic need to wheel your bike inside at night, a vast assortment of small ramps has emerged. These ramps possess a sculptural and expressive quality, and constitute a kind of folk brutalism. ''Rampitas'' is a small study of and appreciation for these forms that tell so much about the conditions – social, economic, and topographical – that defined the struggles and lives of the people who built them.
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« Kiss landing » est un ouvrage qui rassemble des photographies réalisées sur une période de 10 ans à Montréal et à Casablanca, deux villes entre lesquelles Fatine-Violette Sabiri fait l’aller-retour depuis son enfance. Le titre du livre, « Kiss landing », est un terme d’aviation qui désigne un type d’atterrissage où l’avion se pose délicatement sur le sol. S’il(...)
Fatine-Violette Sabiri : Kiss landing
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« Kiss landing » est un ouvrage qui rassemble des photographies réalisées sur une période de 10 ans à Montréal et à Casablanca, deux villes entre lesquelles Fatine-Violette Sabiri fait l’aller-retour depuis son enfance. Le titre du livre, « Kiss landing », est un terme d’aviation qui désigne un type d’atterrissage où l’avion se pose délicatement sur le sol. S’il bouscule moins les passagers, cet atterrissage tend en revanche à endommager les roues de l’appareil puisqu’il en brûle le caoutchouc. La métaphore, ici, exprime avec justesse le sentiment de se trouver entre les deux villes dont la photographe est originaire : si la venue dans un pays est une promesse de retrouvailles, elle entraîne nécessairement une rupture avec le lieu que l’on quitte. Les portraits, paysages et natures mortes se trouvant dans « Kiss landing » s’intéressent aux notions d’amitié, d’hospitalité et d’intimité, tout en cherchant constamment à analyser la signification d’un « chez-soi ».
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