Printed
Matter, Inc.
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Chrysanne
Stathacos
Invisible Colors
Reception, June 4, 2002, 5 to 7 PM
Printed Matter, Inc.
535 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
212 925 0325 tel
212 925 0464 fax
http://www.printedmatter.org
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Invisible Colors by Chrysanne Stathacos at Printed Matter, Inc.
Reception, June 4, 2002, 5 to 7 PM
Printed Matter, Inc. is pleased to host a reception in honor of
Chrysanne
Stathacos' new book Invisible Colors. The reception will take
place on
Tuesday, June 4th, from 5 to 7 PM at Printed Matter, Inc., located at
535
West 22nd Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues.
Invisible Colors is the first book published by Nature Morte
Books, the
publishing venture of Nature Morte New Delhi, India, and the brainchild
of
artist gallerist Peter Nagy.
The book presents 40 full-page color photographic portraits by Chrysanne
Stathacos of Sadhus by the Ganges, Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala,
Krishna
devotees from Vrindavan, Shinto dancers from Japan, Sikhs from Long
Island, and so on. All of the photographs are taken with an "aura
camera," a biofeedback invention used at psychic fairs to record the
aura
of the sitter. The book is a result of three years of travel,
photographing in bead stalls in Rishikesh, temples in Kyoto, and
wherever
else the artist was able to set up the awkward apparatus, she traveled
with to make these unique portraits. The photographs are organized by
the
color of the sitter's aura, moving through the rainbow from the front of
the book to the back.
A short essay by Peter Nagy introduces the book. Each copy comes with a
bookmark designed by the artist. The book, which was printed in India,
retails for $10.
Chrysanne Stathacos is a New York artist. Her garden installation
"Refuge:
a Wish Garden," commissioned for the exhibition "Landesgartenschau," is
currently on view in Grossenhain, Germany, as part of a massive garden
exhibition curated by Heike Strelow. Her previous book, 1000+
Wishes from
The Wish Machine project, wishmachine@aol.com, will be also available at
the launch.
An interactive re-mix for web of Invisible Colors, by Takuji of
KOGO*Candy
Factory, Tokyo, Japan can be found at
http://www.trans.artnet.or.jp/~transart/chrysanne/index.html
[Click on a
face and it changes!]
For additional information about the event, sales, or Invisible
Colors
please contact David Platzker, Director, Printed Matter at (212)
925-0325.
David Platzker
Director
http://www.printedmatter.org
Printed Matter, Inc.
535 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
212 925 0325 tel
212 925 0464 fax
dplatzker@printedmatter.org
Printed Matter, Inc. is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
founded in 1976 by artists and art workers with the mission to foster
the
appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of artists' books and
other
artists' publications.
Printed Matter has received support, in part, through grants from the
National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts,
the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York Arts Recovery
Fund, Art for Art¹s Sake, The New York Community Trust, Elizabeth
Firestone Graham Foundation, The Roy and Niuta Titus Foundation, Heyday
Foundation, The Kettering Family Foundation, CHS Foundation, Charles
Stewart Mott Foundation, The Cowles Charitable Trust, Philip Morris
Companies Inc., Women¹s Studio Workshop, Milton & Sally Avery Arts
Foundation, and private foundations and individuals worldwide.
Printed Matter, Inc. is not affiliated with, nor a division of, any
other
non-profit origination.
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