John Divola / SCAPES

To abstract, to transcend, to invalidate, to make the borders obsolete, what will be born there? Searching for boundaries by Diborah.
 
A collection of works by American visual artist John Divola.
Divora describes himself as "making photographic works, exploring the landscape, exploring the boundaries between the abstract and the figurative".
 
In this collection of works, three representative works produced by the author in the 1990s are recorded. Composed of twenty 18x18 inch black and white photographs, Four Landscapes explores the psychological positioning of nature from a cultural perspective. In "As Far As I Could Get", the artist puts the camera on a tripod with a 10-second self-timer set, and when he presses the shutter button, he runs into the distance at full speed. And finally, "Dogs Chaising My Car in The Desert" is a series of photographs of dogs running after Dibora in a car, as the title suggests.
All photographs are very grainy, and the artist abstracts the boundary between humans and nature, and between subject and background. This book is a book that summarizes these representative series, which were originally published as individual works, from a new perspective.
"When I look at Divola's photographs, I feel universal because I feel all the particularities. Yes, white men, middle-class Southern California, post-conceptual artists, this kind of photography. But no one takes pictures like Divola, he is unique, there is universality and particularity.”_David Company
Publisher: Skinnerboox
Publication year: 2022
Number of pages pages: 96
Size size: 240x200mm
Format format: Hardcover
language language：English
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State condition: New
First edition of 750 copies