1 volume (unpaged) illustrations (some color), portraits 22 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Artists' books (books).)
Artists' books (books)
Artists' books
Date:
2008
Notes:
Back matter includes list of "Works in order of appearance"
The exhibition "Measuring the Universe" was held at the Pinakothek der Moderne in 2007, and other venues
Summary:
From JRP/Ringier website: "Artist's book. In this volume the Slovak artist Roman Ondák (*1966) has brought together some of his works that deal with time, measurement, boundaries, and experience. Alongside a complete documentation of the exhibition "Measuring the Universe," where the museum attendants checked the body size of the visitors throughout its duration, one also finds "Failed Fall" (2008), a greenhouse floor filled with dried autumn leaves, "Across that Place" (2008), the story of the no longer existing Canal Zone by the Panama Canal, and "Concealed Episode" (2007), which recounts the fictional escape to Miami South Beach of a parachutist from Cuba. Whether working with installation, photography, drawing, or performance, Ondák underpins his work with processes, embedding them into the course of an action. The action extends over time, transcribes a scenario rather than explaining it, and can be attached to radically minimalist objects, or - as in this case - to extremely narrative books. Anything that plays a role in his work has its place in this book : the displacement of people and places, presence and absence, the economy of time"
