
Nathan Coley
Hatje Cantz Verlag
1st Edition
Published on 19. March 2014
Book
Hardback
144 pages
978-3-7757-3675-6 (ISBN)
Description
Nathan Coley (*1967 in Glasgow) is interested in the idea of "public" space, and his practice explores the ways in which architecture becomes invested-and reinvested-with meaning. Across a range of media Coley investigates what the built environment reveals about the people it surrounds and how the social and individual response to it is in turn culturally conditioned. Using the readymade as a means to take from and re-place in the world, Coley addresses the ritual forms we use to articulate our beliefs-from hand-held placards and erected signs to religious sanctuaries. Whether highlighting in illuminated letters the testimony of a New Yorker recalling the World Trade Center attacks or erasing the names of the dead from their gravestones, his work frequently turns the specific into the general, thereby testing its function as a form of social representation; simply, does this aphorism, this gravestone, this building, speak on my behalf?
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Ostfildern
Germany
Product notice
Trade binding
Illustrations
89
0 Abbildungen, 89 Fotos bzw. Rasterbilder
ca. 80 Abb.
Dimensions
Height: 28.5 cm
Width: 22.3 cm
Thickness: 1.8 cm
Weight
956 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7757-3675-6 (9783775736756)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Lisa Le Feuvre is a writer and curator of contemporary art at the National Maritime Museum, London.