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Cover from Your House, Cover from Your House, edited by Olafur Eliasson, New York 2006
Cover from Your House, Cover from Your House, edited by Olafur Eliasson, New York 2006
Spread from Your House, Spread from Your House, edited by Olafur Eliasson, New York 2006
Spread from Your House, Spread from Your House, edited by Olafur Eliasson, New York 2006
Spread from Your House, Spread from Your House, edited by Olafur Eliasson, New York 2006
Spread from Your House, Spread from Your House, edited by Olafur Eliasson, New York 2006
Your House, 2006 - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York 2006
Your House, 2006
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York 2006
Your House, 2006 - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York 2006
Your House, 2006
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York 2006
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A commission by the Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Your House consists of a laser-cut negative impression of Eliasson’s house in Copenhagen on a scale of 85:1. Designed and realised by Michael Heimann and Claudia Baulesch, the book is based on a computer-generated model of the house, sliced vertically into 454 even parts. Each of the corresponding 454 hand-bound leaves (or 908 pages) is individually cut and corresponds to 2.2 cm of the actual house. As readers leaf through the pages, they have the illusion of slowly making their way through the rooms of the house from front to back, thus constructing a mental and physical narrative. The result is an intensified sense of space, dimensions, materiality, and time.

Publication details

Type

Artist's book

Designer

Claudia Baulesch Heimann und Schwantes

Text author

Olafur Eliasson

Publisher

Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Language

English

Dimensions

43 x 27.4 x 10.5 cm, 908 pages