CIRCONDI

jeudi 3 mai 2012

Ken Leslie ... l'éventail panoramique

Il appelle cela des Artics Paintings.
basé sur des photographies, et redessiné dessu.
c'est intéressant, pas il manque le centre...

Oeuvre de Ken Leslie

à lire sur : http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/arcadia/arc72.htm
One photo per week for a full year, from a single location, the text of the book directly describes the concept--a 360º panorama of
the landscape at home, shot 1 photo per week throughout the year and carefully measured to close the cycle at the completion of
the year. The circular accordion structure is ideal for this circular landscape, moving simultaneously through Space and Time.

Johanna Drucker, author of "The Century of Artist's Books" commented:

"The world exists to be put into a book--" is an oft-cited quote from Stéphane Mallarmé. But what world? And what book?
The freshness of Ken Leslie's vision sweeps his world into view and shapes its presentation into a book that is formally
sophisticated yet guilelessly self-evident. Leslie shows us his domestic domain in Vermont, photographed from a standing
point that pivots through the 360 degrees of the year to make a panorama that collapses home and day, point of view and
full horizon. At once a bounded universe of personal position and infinite horizon of cycles and change, this book's
reflexivestructure folds that universe back on itself, using its circular form as an instrument for visual comparison.
A finely manifest, deceptively simple, skillfully designed work, quite replete and complete, this is an exemplary
engagement of an artist with innovation in a book structure."

Edition of 2000, Nexus Press, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 2002
20 x 18 x 3 cms. Offset printed both sides full color on a single sheet.
Cut, scored and folded into slipcase. Original made from a collage of photographs, sewn to paper, with handwritten text.