Your House (Signed)
- SIGNED
- New York: Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art, 2006
New York: Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art, 2006. A fine copy in blue cloth boards with blind-stamped titles to front panel; housed in original drop-leaf cardboard box, with matching titles to lid. Accompanied by original string-bound prospectus (in original plain envelope), featuring two die-cut examples, an excerpt from Edwin A. Abbott's Flatland (1884), and an involved artist's statement from Eliasson, articulating an architectural metaphor of reading.. Limited Edition. Oblong folio. Number 93 of 255 copies, SIGNED by Eliasson to colophon. A quite-literal work of paper architecture, commissioned by MoMA's Library Council, in which experiential artist Olafur Eliasson produced a laser-cut negative impression of his Copenhagen home; printed at a scale of 85:1 in 454 vertical slices (for 908 pages). "As readers leaf through the pages, they have the illusion of slowly making their way through the rooms of the house from front to back, thus constructing a mental and physical narrative. The result is an intensified sense of space, dimensions, materiality, and time.
Details
Title
Your House (Signed)
Author
ELIASSON, Olafur
Condition
Fine
Publisher
New York: Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art
Date
2006