Fabrice Samyn
I Am?
Published on 22. June 2021
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-300-25046-6 (ISBN)
Description
The first major monograph on the work of contemporary Belgian artist Fabrice Samyn
Contemporary Belgian artist Fabrice Samyn (b. 1981) works in a wide variety of media, including painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and recently choreography. His art engages with history and the passage of time, raising important questions about representation, idolatry, iconoclasm, and ecology in our contemporary world. In the artist's own words, "My work attempts to reveal time, or rather natural phenomena of time (erosion for example) as creative." One of his best-known series, "Sinai" (2010), features photographic images of the necks of Greek sculptures, cropped and lit in such a way that they become abstract landscapes. This book is the first to offer an in-depth exploration of the full scope of Samyn's oeuvre. Copiously illustrated, the book also includes penetrating essays by prominent European philosophers and art historians.
Distributed for Mercatorfonds
Exhibition Schedule:
Gallerie Sies + Hoek, Duesseldorf
(2020)
Contemporary Belgian artist Fabrice Samyn (b. 1981) works in a wide variety of media, including painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and recently choreography. His art engages with history and the passage of time, raising important questions about representation, idolatry, iconoclasm, and ecology in our contemporary world. In the artist's own words, "My work attempts to reveal time, or rather natural phenomena of time (erosion for example) as creative." One of his best-known series, "Sinai" (2010), features photographic images of the necks of Greek sculptures, cropped and lit in such a way that they become abstract landscapes. This book is the first to offer an in-depth exploration of the full scope of Samyn's oeuvre. Copiously illustrated, the book also includes penetrating essays by prominent European philosophers and art historians.
Distributed for Mercatorfonds
Exhibition Schedule:
Gallerie Sies + Hoek, Duesseldorf
(2020)
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
200 color + b-w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 295 mm
Width: 241 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-300-25046-6 (9780300250466)
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Persons
Vinciane Despret is a philosopher of science and associate professor at the University of Liege. Pascal Rousseau is professor of contemporary art history at the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne. Wivine de Traux is an art historian and art critic based in Brussels.