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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Editor | Rolf Sachsse |
Publisher | Wasmuth |
Year | 2019 |
Cover | Halfcloth |
Language | English, German |
ISBN | 978-3-8030-3405-2 |
Pages | 116 |
Weight | 1462 g |
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Contributors | Wolfgang Filser, Rolf Sachsse |
Article ID | art-61794 |
Over a period of three years the Swiss photo artist Amin El Dib photostated plaster casts of antique sculptures in the Basel Skulpturhalle where they were collected for study purposes.
As a photographer he was more interested in the spatial situation of a collection, especially at the moment of transition out of storage to exhibition, than he was in the exact reproduction of beautiful gures. The pictures he produces are often provoked by the details of older and more recent damage suffered by the otherwise perfect sculptures. Since the casts are not painted, their white to yellow color range is contrasted with the red walls, white ceilings and color scheme of the lamps. What El Dib has captured here is the history of a collection of plaster casts of antique sculptures as that of a medium whose dynamic is repeated in a similar way in the medium of his photography.