Ici. / Là-bas.

Ici. / Là-bas.
Author: Saâdane Afif
Publisher: Spector Books
Language: English
Pages: 376
Size: 13 x 18 cm
Weight: 600 g
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 9783959050692
Availability: In stock
Price: €27.71
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When Saâdane Afif was awarded the prestigious Günther-Peill Prize three years ago, he ended up in Düren, a small provincial town in North Rhine-Westphalia. He used this location as an opportunity to reflect on the idea of “Here / Ici” and “There / Là-bas”. Afif transported Düren’s station lights together with the loudspeakers and platform announcements into the museum setting. He invited friends to write songs on the themes of “Here” and “There” and designed two posters for Ici. and Là-bas. – the titles of the two-part multimedia installation. Ici. was shown in the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum & Papiermuseum Düren and Là-bas. at the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art and in the Kunsthaus Glarus in Switzerland. The two-part artist book includes views of the installation, the fifteen lyrics by different poets, and essays by Diedrich Diedrichsen, Juan A. Gaitán, and Rein Wolfs on the French conceptual artist’s way of working.

META DATA
120 pp.
20 colour images
two saddle-stiched brochures enveloped in one dust jacket
Leipzig 2016

DESIGNER
Pascal Storz, Fabian Bremer
EPILOGUE
Sabine Rusterholz Petko, Renate Goldmann
AUTHOR
Saâdane Afif
EDITOR
Günther-Peill-Stiftung am Leopold-Hoesch-Museum & Papiermuseum Düren
TEXT
Diedrich Diederichsen, Juan A. Gaitán, Rein Wolfs