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The lower Manhattan sign project : June 27, 1992-June 30, 1993
Title Description - "In 1992, four organizations-the Bronx Council on the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Snug Harbor Cultural Center, and Socrates Sculpture Park-all dedicated to bringing new art to the broadest possible audiences,…
Standard : específico = spécifique = specific
Title Description - Muntadas writes, "Cities are defined by their architecture, urbanism, monuments, activites, signs- all references to identity and characteristic historical landmarks. Yet, in a way, signs become increasingly generalized and…
Rourouni
Title Description - In these square black and white photographs of the Svit plant in Zlín, Veronika Zapletalová shows the formalist architecture of the industrial building under attack by its own ventilation system. The pipes and ducts…
Random walk
Title Description - Over a period of twenty-eight minutes and thirty-eight seconds, the artists photographed pedestrians with a camera "adapted so that it had an open slot of one millimetre as its aperture. Behind this the film is run in a single…
Platzwechsel
Title Description - In 1992, Zurich's Platspitz park--once a 19th century source of inspiration for nature lovers including James Joyce--made international headlines as the open-air home to some 3,000 illegal drug users and dealers. It was…
Muntadas : trabajos recientes
Title Description - Recent Works the exhibition catalog for Muntadas' multimedia installation, Stadium VIII, at the Ivam Centre del Carme in Valencia. It presents essays by Carmen Alborch, Margaret Morse, and Eugeni Bonet and documentation of The…
Muntadas : on translation
Title Description - Muntadas: On Translation presents a series of twenty-eight projects that engage the concepts of translation and interpretation in a way that addresses cultural, linguistic, political and economic issues. The large volume of…
Media stadium
Title Description - Sport, spectacle, and strength converge in Muntadas' colorful book of photographs taken from news and media sources. Media Stadium considers the correlation between the desire for entertainment and the potential for media…
Infinite reconstruction : HM Welch : the handmade bricks of Adam Welch
Title Description - 670 color images document the making, firing and installation of handmade fire brick in this artist's book from Adam Welch. Through the fabrication and subsequent sculptural installation of the bricks, Welch tries to balance…
Hors de contenance : New York City, June 1996 : Marseille, janvier 2002
Title Description - Each page of this beautifully designed and produced book moves the reader slowly and mysteriously through an image of an empty hanging dress into a similarly ghostly building and then out through the back of the dress. The text,…