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An original and entertaining catalogue for a travelling exhibition
that has already been much talked about. The expressive power of
glass emerges from the pages of the Glasstrees catalogue, which
travelled from the Venice Biennale to the Museum of Art and Design
of New York in February 2012. The excellent colour photographs
illustrate the glass sculptures and installations by
internationally-acclaimed artists and designers, some of the most
important on the international scene, who for the occasion tackled
one of the arts to have made Venice famous throughout the world.
This catalogue will become a "must" for collectors, designers,
students and connoisseurs.
Walead Beshty (born 1976) has long used photography as a tool to
explore social conditions. In 2001, the artist began documenting
the abandoned embassy of the defunct Iraqi Diplomatic Mission in
the former East Berlin. This publication focuses on three related
bodies of work that continue Beshty's engagement with the invisible
territories of globalization.
Mountains have been a central defining theme in Switzerland, as
they have elsewhere in the world. This has fascinated artists and,
since the earliest invention of the medium, photographers. Today
mountain chains are seen differently than they once were,
recognized as having an unsettling fragility in the face of their
occupation by humans. What remains of the myths linked to
mountains? Are mountains still a source of inspiration for today's
artists? How do perceptions of them shift as their populations
disappear, and cultural references are increasingly centred on an
urban existence? High Altitude provides some of the answers to
these questions. This book is a companion to the Swiss photography
festival, Alt. +1000, held in Rossiniere in the foothills of the
Alps. "High Altitude" features works by contemporary photographers
who record mountains in their various and multiple states:
spectacular, sublime, domesticated, constructed (even artificial!)
and frightening. Artists from around the world, many of whom live
far from a mountainous environment, celebrate and challenge deeply
rooted myths, and individually interpret this elusive landscape. In
addition, well-known photographer Olaf Otto Becker, renowned for
his views of Greenland, created a portrait of a natural park close
to Rossiniere. Becker's work is breathtakingly beautiful, but its
beauty nonetheless reminds us that nature is being radically
modified by climate change.
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