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Your House

Item date(s): 2006

Olafur Eliasson  - (concept)


Pages: unpaged (908pp)
Size: 274mm, oblong
Technique: Computer-aided laser die-cuts
Inscription: Signed by the artist.
Edition: #136/225

Theme(s): Architecture

Place publication: New York
Publisher: The Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art
Cat. 177-C6-4/5
Exhibition 2017

Additional notes:
Houses in cardboard box with title on lid and flip down side.

Realization / Design by groenlandberlin, Michael Heimann, Claudia Baulesch. Computer-aided modeling by Georg Saguma. Produced by Kremo, Mosbach, and Markus Rottmann, Heiner Hauck Portfolios, Berlin. Organized by Caroline Eggel at Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin, with May Castleberry, Editor, Contemporary Editions, at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

All sales benefit the Library and Museum Archives of The Museum of Modern Art.

Comprising 454 leaves, 452 of which are laser-cut. The computer-aided laser-cut leaves form a sculpture in negative space of the artist's own house in Copenhagen. Each leaf corresponds to 2.2 centimeters of the actual house.

Illustrated on page 154 of Artists' Books by Suzanne Swarts; Caldic Collection, 2007.

Ursus catalogue 278, Number 33. POR,

Illustrated in Bonhams auction catalogue 15/12/2009, Lot 5045.

Illustrated in Slash: Paper Under the Knife, Museum of Arts and Design, 2009 at p100.

Illustrated in "Fully Booked", Cover Art and Design for Books, 2009 at pp129-131 where it is described as follows: Olafur Eliasson's Your House is an over-sized, sculptural volume that evokes a tour through a turn-of-the-century European house in the Nordic Romantic style - the artist's own home in Copenhagen, Denmark, to be exact. The book's 454 hand-bound leaves digitally reproduce a series of vertical cross-sections of the house. In addition, each leaf is individually laser-cut to create negative spaces in the paper. Featuring a system of cut-outs and images, the book uses a variety of documentary, optical, exploratory and presentational techniques. Some passages recall historical prints and books, while others are reminiscent of paper theatres from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Illustrated as item 13 in Modern & Contemporary Illustrated & Photography Books. Ursus Books. 2011.

Illustrated as item 4 in Modern & Contemporary Illustrated & Photography Books. Ursus Books, 2012.

See also: Binding Architecture: Drawing in the Book. AB/3835.

Illustrated in Artists and their books, Books and their artists, p82: AB/3201

Reference note:
Eliasson summarizes the experience of viewing this book, 'Reading a book is both a physical and mental activity. It is like walking through a house, following the layout of the rooms with your body and mind: the movement from one room to another, or from one part of the book to another constitutes an experiential narrative that is physical and conscious at the same time'.

Exhibition notes:
Item 0177 - C6-4/5/6 on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.

UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg

25 March to 5 May 2017



Ref: GB/11487













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