The Empty Club
  • artists' book
  • pictorial boards
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 27.3 x 16.5 cm.
  • 112 pp.
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 1902201027

The Empty Club

Gabriel Orozco

The Empty Club

description

An artists' book / exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with a 1996 site-specific exhibition in London.

"The grand Georgian building at 50 St James's stands in the centre of London and at the heart of the British Establishment. For almost 150 years, it was the home of The Devonshire Club, a domain for English gentlemen. Refurbished for a new life as a corporate HQ, 50 St James's lay vacant through the summer of 1996, suspended between an empty past and an unknown future. Gabriel Orozco animated this sleeping building with a sequence of sculptural transformations. An exquisite 'Oval Billard Table' was installed, the red ball hovering above the green baize. Elsewhere visitors encountered 'The Atomist,' an extended series of sporting prints; a dreamscape model of Lord's cricket ground and an avenue of 'moon trees.'" - from books' back cover.

Texts by James Lingwood, Jean Fischer, Mark Haworth-Booth and Guy Brett. Designed by Luc Derycke. Includes bibliography and check-list for exhibition

London, United Kingdom: Artangel Afterlives,
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