Posts Tagged ‘installation’
Exhibition Staged City
My work One Swimming Pool will be on view in Staged City at Arti & Amicitiae in Amsterdam. The show is curated by Laura van Rijs and Petra Noordkamp and includes work by Jan Adriaans, Maria Barnas, Robbie Cornelissen, Pawel Jaszczuk, Lucas Lenglet, Petra Noordkamp, Paulien Oltheten, Pablo Pijnappel, Diana Scherer, Arjan van Helmond, Sarah van Sonsbeeck, Batia Suter, Rogier Taminiau and Elisabeth Tonnard.
The exhibition runs from May 24 till June 22. Opening night: May 23, 8PM – 10PM.
Two Minute Exhibition video
On April 12 I had a two minute exhibition at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY, timed during VSW’s Annual Auction. David Mount made a wonderful documentation of the show. Watch it here.
Two minute show
Upcoming: on April 12 I’ll have a two minute exhibition at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY, timed during VSW’s Annual Auction. Click on the image to read the proclamation.
One Swimming Pool
This book is a portable swimming pool that can be put on a bookshelf. It is based on Ed Ruscha’s book Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass from which one swimming pool was photographed. If the sheets are carefully removed from the book and laid down next to each other, this swimming pool can be installed at the size of a small swimming pool. The book was bound using an adhesive that allows the sheets to be taken out. Doing so will of course destroy the book in its bound form.
Published in an edition of nine copies and an artist proof by Elisabeth Tonnard in Leerdam, The Netherlands, 2013. Installation size ± 648 x 648 cm. Book size 14.8 x 18.8 x 19 cm. Full color digital print, 3164 pages, plus inserted sheet with overview and instructions for installation. See more images.
On view at the Gagosian Gallery, Ed Ruscha Books & Co, 980 Madison Avenue, New York City, March 5 – April 27 2013. The work can also be purchased there.
Thanks to current and past members of ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative and to David Mount and Johan Velter for corresponding with me about this project. Special thanks to Chris Burnett, Michael Maranda and Wim Kamsteeg for helping me overcome the technical difficulties.
If ever there was a book to dive into, this would be it. Mishka Henner
Click on any image below to see the image gallery showing production shots of a smaller black and white maquette.
One Swimming Pool
I’m working on an Ed Ruscha inspired book installation that will be shown at the upcoming show ‘Ed Ruscha Books & Co’ at the Gagosian gallery in NYC (Madison Ave branch; documentation and artist proof portfolio will be shown).
The pictures below are production shots of a smaller B&W maquette. The final size will be 6.3 x 6.3 meters.
The project is based on Ruscha’s book Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass from 1968. One of the pictures from that book was photographed and subsequently enlarged to the size of a small swimming pool. The pool consists of 1575 sheets, or 3150 pages. The size of these sheets is based on the size of Ruscha’s book. A small edition is planned of a set of twelve books containing all sheets in full-colour: One Swimming Pool in Twelve Volumes. The idea is to have a swimming pool that can be kept in a bookcase; also sheets can be taken out and used to recreate the installation.
De zee is groen
In the project ‘Uitgeschreven ruimte’ commissioned by BKKC in Tilburg, The Netherlands, artist Geert-Jan van Oostende and I realized an 11 meters long work on cloth. The project was an experiment in having poets and artists work together on creating a new work for the public space. It was funded by the Mondrian Fund and the Dutch foundation for literature. There is an exhibition of all the works created until January 27, and this specific work will remain on view permanently. Here is a view of sketch design and final work in situ. We were asked to make a work for the windows at the BKKC building and decided to stress a sense of surface without depth in both text and image. The text is my poem ‘De zee is groen’ composed around visual information from a Suske en Wiske comic book, the image is a shape created from the surface of Van Oostende’s working table.
Elisabeth Tonnard 