Gary Cohen, Déchiré

Déchiré

Gary Cohen

Publisher
Mörel Books
Year
2019
ISBN
978-1-907071-73-7
Specifications
Loose pages screen printed on blue back coloured paper
24.7 x 36.9 cm
32 pages
Packaged in tearable envelope
Creative direction: Sarah Boris
Poem by Adelaide Pralon

These images document creativity beyond functionality, transforming what lurks beneath the multiple surfaces initial intentions into new aesthetic works of art. The images bring to mind the works of New Realists Jacques Villeglé and Mimmo Rotella yet in this case flattening the images into a single surface reducing the duality of the posters — that of their consumerist purpose and the new echos of anti capitalism in the torn posters.

Under the creative direction of artist and designer, Sarah Boris, the pages are screen printed onto blue back coloured paper, in the same way as the images captured. They are packaged into an envelope that must be torn in order to free the book. The book includes a poem written by Parisian based poet, play writer and translator, Adelaide Pralon. Each page of the book is loose and can be disseminated, reassembled or even displayed as individual artworks. All this gives a performative aspect to the book where the boundaries between editor, viewer, curator are all entwined to become one.

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