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Cover from Never Tired of Looking at Each Other – Only the Mountain and I, edited by Anna Engberg-Pedersen / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Hu Fang, Huang Shan, and Lu Jiu, Beijing / London 2012
Cover from Never Tired of Looking at Each Other – Only the Mountain and I, edited by Anna Engberg-Pedersen / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Hu Fang, Huang Shan, and Lu Jiu, Beijing / London 2012
Olafur Eliasson, email correspondence with Hu Fang, 19 February 2013
Olafur Eliasson, email correspondence with Hu Fang, 19 February 2013
An intimate view into a book published in 2012 by the Pavilion in Beijing and Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin. The book presents material collected on a journey from 21 to 24 February 2011, when Eliasson and a group of collaborators – writer Hu Fang, gallerist Zhang Wei, choreographer and dancer Steen Koerner, organisers Lu Jia and Anna Engberg-Pedersen, graphic designers Huang Shan and Huang He, artists Julian Charriere and Thilo Frank, film documentarist Tomas Gislason, and landscape architect Günter Vogt – explored the Master of Nets Garden and the Lingering Garden, two scholar’s gardens in Suzhou, China, just outside of Shanghai, as models for physical movement, duration, rhythm, and sequencing. One product of the journey was this book, edited by Anna Engberg-Pedersen / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Hu Fang, Huang Shan, and Lu Jiu, Beijing / London.
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An intimate view into a book published in 2012 by the Pavilion in Beijing and Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin. The book presents material collected on a journey from 21 to 24 February 2011, when Eliasson and a group of collaborators – writer Hu Fang, gallerist Zhang Wei, choreographer and dancer Steen Koerner, organisers Lu Jia and Anna Engberg-Pedersen, graphic designers Huang Shan and Huang He, artists Julian Charriere and Thilo Frank, film documentarist Tomas Gislason, and landscape architect Günter Vogt – explored the Master of Nets Garden and the Lingering Garden, two scholar’s gardens in Suzhou, China, just outside of Shanghai, as models for physical movement, duration, rhythm, and sequencing. One product of the journey was this book, edited by Anna Engberg-Pedersen / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Hu Fang, Huang Shan, and Lu Jiu, Beijing / London.
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An intimate view into a book published in 2012 by the Pavilion in Beijing and Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin. The book presents material collected on a journey from 21 to 24 February 2011, when Eliasson and a group of collaborators – writer Hu Fang, gallerist Zhang Wei, choreographer and dancer Steen Koerner, organisers Lu Jia and Anna Engberg-Pedersen, graphic designers Huang Shan and Huang He, artists Julian Charriere and Thilo Frank, film documentarist Tomas Gislason, and landscape architect Günter Vogt – explored the Master of Nets Garden and the Lingering Garden, two scholar’s gardens in Suzhou, China, just outside of Shanghai, as models for physical movement, duration, rhythm, and sequencing. One product of the journey was this book, edited by Anna Engberg-Pedersen / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Hu Fang, Huang Shan, and Lu Jiu, Beijing / London.
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An intimate view into a book published in 2012 by the Pavilion in Beijing and Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin. The book presents material collected on a journey from 21 to 24 February 2011, when Eliasson and a group of collaborators – writer Hu Fang, gallerist Zhang Wei, choreographer and dancer Steen Koerner, organisers Lu Jia and Anna Engberg-Pedersen, graphic designers Huang Shan and Huang He, artists Julian Charriere and Thilo Frank, film documentarist Tomas Gislason, and landscape architect Günter Vogt – explored the Master of Nets Garden and the Lingering Garden, two scholar’s gardens in Suzhou, China, just outside of Shanghai, as models for physical movement, duration, rhythm, and sequencing. One product of the journey was this book, edited by Anna Engberg-Pedersen / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Hu Fang, Huang Shan, and Lu Jiu, Beijing / London.
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From 21 to 24 February 2011, a heterogeneous group of people explored together the Master of Nets Garden and the Lingering Garden, two scholar's gardens in Suzhou, China, just outside of Shanghai.

Along with the initiators of the journey – artist Olafur Eliasson, writer Hu Fang, and gallerist Zhang Wei – the group included choreographer and dancer Steen Koerner, organisers Lu Jia and Anna Engberg-Pedersen, graphic designers Huang Shan and Huang He, and the artists Julian Charriere and Thilo Frank, who were filming with Eliasson. Film documentarist Tomas Gislason, with his own camera in hand, and Günter Vogt, a landscape architect, joined as travel companions and garden interlocutors. The aim of the journey was to explore the traditional Chinese scholar's garden as a model for physical movement, for duration, rhythm, and sequencing, and also as inspiration for a future book – this one. The encounter with the gardens was mediated by the lenses of the film cameras and by Steen Koerner's body as he moved in slow motion through the cultivated landscape.

Publication details

Type

 Artist's book

Title

 Never Tired of Looking at Each Other – Only the Mountain and I

Concept

 Olafur Eliasson

Editor

 Anna Engberg-Pedersen Hu Fang Lu Jia Huang Shan

Image editor

 Biljana Joksimović-Große

Publisher

 The Pavilion, Beijing

Language

 English / Chinese

Dimensions

 17.5 x 28.3 cm, 278 pages

ISBN-13

 9783863352264
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