OLAFUR ELIASSON: CONTACT IS CONTENT

Berlin, Germany: Distanz Verlag Berlin, 2014. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. Berlin, Germany: Distanz Verlag Berlin, 2014. Hardcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 416 pages. Collection of photographically-sourced images, presented as a massive Artist Book. One of the most beautiful creations by Olafur Eliasson. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. An Import title, none of the copies was sold commercially in the United States. The First Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Olafur Eliasson: Massive oversize-volume format. Pale-gray and white linen cloth boards with white titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographically-sourced art by Olafur Eliasson. Aside from the Credit and Captions appended at the end, there is no text. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Berlin, Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is outstanding in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Olafur Eliasson's "Contact Is Content". Being the bleak and often violent Icelandic landscape photographs that the artist takes, gathers, and re-presents as a sequence of overwhelming and often indelible images. He also shows some of his original objects and installations, all inspired by Nature. The photographs are taken in a Minimalist style that straddles documentary and "art effect", and are rigorously beautiful, unlike any other landscape photography anyone is likely to see. "His work does not immediately lend itself to being understood on the basis of one single perspective but takes its mark in certain universal processes common to all Mankind. Olafur Eliasson's installations of light, air, ice, and water, reflections and vegetation, his photographs of the Icelandic landscape, and his scientific investigations confront our own gaze and existence in the world" (Publisher's blurb) . Eliasson uses art to make us aware, as if for the very first time - which all great art must do - of the most basic elements of earthly life. We complacently take them for granted and lump them together under the rubric of "Nature", when the latter is necessarily an external environment as well as an experienced reality, that is to say, "Culture", and of course, Art. If the late great Christian Boltanski uses art to evoke History and Memory, Eliasson uses it to re-think our otherwise distancing habits about and response to Nature as the very basis of the aesthetic experience. An absolute "must-have" title for Olafur Eliasson collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in purple pen-marker on the title page by Olafur Eliasson. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great Artist Book. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: This is an Import title. None of the copies was sold commercially in the United States. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of full-page, "bleed" color plates. One of the greatest artists of our time. A fine collectible copy. . ISBN 3954760843.