SPBH Book Club Vol VI
by GIBSON, Melinda (UK, 1985)
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Ottimo (Fine)
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ROMA, Roma, Italy
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About This Item
London: SPBH Editions, , 2014. Rilegato mezza tela (half-cloth binding). Ottimo (Fine). 140 colour plates / 140 tavole. 8vo (cm 20x15). pp. 144. Ottimo (Fine). Edizione originale di 300 esemplari numerati e firmati (300 numbered and signed copies). SPBH Book Club VI è un'esplorazione 'forense' sul tema della perdita e del rinnovamento dell'artista Melinda Gibson. Durante un incendio nel suo studio nel sud di Londra, Gibson ha visto il fumo e l'acqua riversarsi nello spazio. La sua risposta all'epoca fu istintiva e viscerale: fissò negativi di grande formato alle pareti, esponendoli a questi elementi e osservandoli mentre mutavano verso l'astrazione, ognuno diventando una traccia di ciò che era accaduto lì. In seguito, ha setacciato ciò che rimaneva, analizzando e fotografando il materiale e componendolo in un libro. La realizzazione del libro stesso è diventato un processo catartico di comprensione e sopravvivenza.
In un rituale atto di sfida, ogni libro è stato "affumicato" da Gibson in un affumicatoio costruito a mano e sigillato in plastica per contenere il profumo - ogni libro diventa un oggetto sensoriale unico che offre un'esperienza che trascende le pagine del volume. SPBH Book Club VI is a forensic exploration of loss and renewal by artist Melinda Gibson. During a fire at her South London studio, Gibson watched as smoke and water poured into the space. Her response at the time was instinctive and visceral, taping large format negatives to the walls, exposing them to these elements and watching as they abstracted, each one becoming an alluring record of what happened there. In the aftermath, she combed through what remained, analyzing and photographing material and drawing it together in the form of a book. The making of the book itself became a cathartic process of understanding and survival.
In a ritualistic act of defiance, each book is ‘smoked' by Gibson in hand built smokehouse and sealed in plastic to contain the scent – each one becoming a unique, sensorial object offering an experience that transcends the pages of the book.
Through investigating the event and restaging it in small performative acts of satiation, this book is a way of containing the experience and making it hers.
In un rituale atto di sfida, ogni libro è stato "affumicato" da Gibson in un affumicatoio costruito a mano e sigillato in plastica per contenere il profumo - ogni libro diventa un oggetto sensoriale unico che offre un'esperienza che trascende le pagine del volume. SPBH Book Club VI is a forensic exploration of loss and renewal by artist Melinda Gibson. During a fire at her South London studio, Gibson watched as smoke and water poured into the space. Her response at the time was instinctive and visceral, taping large format negatives to the walls, exposing them to these elements and watching as they abstracted, each one becoming an alluring record of what happened there. In the aftermath, she combed through what remained, analyzing and photographing material and drawing it together in the form of a book. The making of the book itself became a cathartic process of understanding and survival.
In a ritualistic act of defiance, each book is ‘smoked' by Gibson in hand built smokehouse and sealed in plastic to contain the scent – each one becoming a unique, sensorial object offering an experience that transcends the pages of the book.
Through investigating the event and restaging it in small performative acts of satiation, this book is a way of containing the experience and making it hers.
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- Seller
- Studio Bibliografico Marini (IT)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 225418
- Title
- SPBH Book Club Vol VI
- Author
- GIBSON, Melinda (UK, 1985)
- Format/Binding
- Rilegato mezza tela (half-cloth binding)
- Book Condition
- Used - Ottimo (Fine)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- SPBH Editions,
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2014
- Keywords
- photography,photography: photobooks,
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Studio Bibliografico Marini
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ROMA, Roma
About Studio Bibliografico Marini
The Studio Bibliografico Marini began his business in 1993. The firm focuses on literature and art of the twentieth century, with particular reference to the original editions, art books, illustrated books, art catalogs, photography and original graphic art. In its website provides a powerful search engine that, thanks to a careful and detailed cataloging of the editorial material, makes it possible to find rare documents of many Italian and foreign artists and writers, very well known or almost unknown, in books, catalogs and historical records of the literary and art magazines of the last century. Are also published periodic catalogs dedicated to the most current known contemporary art, poetry and fiction of the twentieth century.
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- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.