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Rashid Johnson

Rashid Johnson

A Minimalist Sculpture Becomes a Greenhouse The High Line is a 1.45-mile stretch of disused elevate freight tracks on Manhattan’s West Side that was… Mehr

Autor: Johnson, Rashid

Verlag: DISTANZ Verlag

Zustand: NEU (Preisbindung aufgehoben)

19,90 €

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Beschreibung

A Minimalist Sculpture Becomes a Greenhouse The High Line is a 1.45-mile stretch of disused elevate freight tracks on Manhattan’s West Side that was converted into a park between 2006 and 2014. In 2015, the American artist Rashid Johnson (b. Chicago, Ill., 1977; lives and works in New York, N.Y.) installed a publicly accessible sculpture on the tracks. Commissioned by the High Line Art program, it consisted of a shelf-like black metal construction that housed a number of bright yellow busts. Blocks presents comprehensive photographic documentation of the eponymous work’s evolving interaction with the lush vegetation into which it intervened. Over the course of the full year for which the sculpture stood on the site, plants of different species grew through its grid structure, lending it a forever changing aspect as the seasons passed. The pictures illustrate the poetic quality of the time-limited relationship between a man-made construction and nature, touching on themes such as optimism, failure, regeneration, and desolation. A conversation between Cecilia Alemani, chief curator of High Line Art, and Rashid Johnson sheds light on the genesis of Blocks and the artist’s approach to making work for public settings.
Produktnummer 97839547616851
EAN 9783954761685
Verlag DISTANZ Verlag
Autor Johnson, Rashid
Produktform Softcover
Sprachen Englisch
Erscheinungsdatum 08.2016
Seiten 72
Maße Breite 190 mm x Höhe 8 mm
Gewicht 0.38 kg