tema celeste
editions
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TEMA
CELESTE EDITIONS DEBUTS
WITH BOOK AND LIMITED EDITION WORK
BY
ANDREA
ZITTEL
November 9th from 5 to 7 p.m. at Red Dot,
140 West 22nd Street, New York, NY
The artist will be present for the book signing
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Andrea Zittels book and limited-edition work mark the debut of
tema
celeste editions: an innovative series of monographs, simply titled
diary,
in which contemporary artists use the model of a personal diary to
interweave tales and conversation about their artistic practice. The
reader is allowed to voyage through the thoughts and sensibilities of
each
artist, experiencing an original way of looking at their work. To
celebrate the publication of each diary, the artist also creates a
special
limited edition work.
In diary #01 Zittel, who was born and raised in Southern
California,
recounts her journey, both actual and intellectual, through the desert
of
her native region in search of experimental habitable systems. The tale
unfolds with photographs shot by the artist at the most fascinating and
expressive sites in the California desert, alternating with spreads of
Zittels work, from the creation of a cement island in the
Scandinavian
sea, over two years in the making, to her experiments with food and the
places and ways in which might be prepared. In the volumes final
section,
a conversation between Zittel and her friend and fellow artist Allan
McCollum draws out the fundamental themes of her career.
To celebrate the publication of diary #01, Andrea Zittel has created a
limited edition work titled A-Z 2002 Homestead Unit, a scale
model of one
of her life-size habitations. The original pioneering spirit
considered
autonomy and self-sufficiency as prerequisites of personal freedom. At
A-Z
West, we are investigating how such perceptions of freedom have been
re-adapted for contemporary living, says the artist.
tema celeste editions is an initiative of Gabrius
(http://www.gabrius.com), the art
multimedia group specializing in
providing products and services to the world of art and finance, which
issues the contemporary art magazine tema celeste.
The diary series is conceived and edited by tema celeste s
editor-in-chief, Simona Vendrame, while the limited edition works are
conceived and produced by Michael Steinberg.
Gabrius
400 Madison Avenue, Suite 7D, New York, NY 10017 USA Tel. +1 212
813.3311
Piazza Borromeo 10, 20123 Milano, Italy Tel. +39 02 80651742
info@temacelesteditions.com
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