Cathédrales
Cathédrales is an artist’s book based on a spread of the cathedral in Bourges from a book published in the 1950s by the ministry of tourism to promote spiritual architecture in France. Aëgerter photographed this image over 100 times to capture the shadow of the window in her studio as it gradually c...
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RVB Books
2014
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Cathédrales is an artist’s book based on a spread of the cathedral in Bourges from a book published in the 1950s by the ministry of tourism to promote spiritual architecture in France. Aëgerter photographed this image over 100 times to capture the shadow of the window in her studio as it gradually covered the reproduction until the cathedral vanished into darkness. The meditative process and the slow passing of time is incorporated in physicality of the work; the size of the publication determines the pace to turn the pages, requiring a degree of concentration that confronts the reader with their own understanding of time. Through her interaction with existing material such as encyclopedias, documentary photographs and art reproductions, Aëgerter intervenes in the perception of her subjects and challenges traditional structures of knowledge. (Homepage der Künstlerin, Stand: 14.04.2020)) "The starting point of Laurence Aëgerter's facsimile Cathédrales, is the 1949 catalogue Cathédrales et églises de France, published by the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Tourism. The artist placed the book by the window in her studio and allowed the incidence of natural light to impact a reproduction of the façade of the Saint-Étienne cathedral in Bourges. She photographed the book every minute during two hours, obtaining 120 photographs of light variations upon this unique image. The play of shadow and light of the Gothic architecture in the original photograph, is superimposed by a new shadow that slowly glides on the cathedral and, imperceptibly but irreparably, swallows it up. Aëgerter's photographs contain thus three stratified layers of times: the 12th century, 1949, and 2012. Cathédrales presents a photographic sequence and as we turn the pages, we are aware of the temporal dimension of this visual exploration, a metaphor of transience."--RVB Books website, viewed June 4, 2015 |
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| Beschreibung: | Edition: 500 books, special edition with numbered and signed photograph: 50 books |
| Beschreibung: | circa 260 Seiten 27 cm |
| ISBN: | 9791090306165 979-10-90306-16-5 |