Alpha
  • artists' book
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • die-cut
  • color
  • 28.5 x 17.5 cm
  • [120] pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 3905701111

Alpha

Doug Aitken

Alpha

description

An elaborate artists' book die-cut into the profile of a face produced in conjunction with an exhibition held at ARC / Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, November 10 - December 31, 2005. "I became restless with the flat surface of the screen so the work gradually evolved into the rest of the space," says Doug Aitken of his multichannel film work. Lately he has been projecting from multiple points onto a single structure. And he has turned from wide-open and lonely landscapes (Electric Earth, Diamond Sea) to wide-open and lonely people (new skin). The protagonist of the surreal Alpha, played by cult actor Udo Kier is both: as he travels, he dematerializes and becomes the space that he inhabits. Luckily for readers, Aitken is as bored with the square shape of the conventional book as he is with the conventional screen: this collection of Alpha images, accompanied by text from the artist, is bound in the shape of a head in profile. Texts by Laurence Bossé, Anne Dressen, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Angeline Scherf printed on loose sheet within book's shrink-wrap.

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