JOHN GERRARD: ANIMATED SCENE [2009] - SIGNED

Schlebrugge.Editor [Vienna, 2009]. Softcover, 64pp. 29.5 x 19 cm.

First edition signed and inscribed by John Gerrard.

John Gerrard’s desolate landscape scenes have redefined contemporary digital practices over the last decade. Born in Ireland and based in Vienna and Dublin, Gerrard relies not on his homeland for subject matter, but on the oil rigs, open fields and rural vistas of middle-America, resulting in imagery that is not patriotic, but instead overtly realistic and at times tragic.

Animated Scene was a collateral project at the 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. It was inaugurated on June 4, 2009, and remained open to the public from June 7 - September 30, 2009. It consisted of three works in form of large-scale projections. Each work introduced a virtual scene - astonishingly real, but entirely and meticulously fabricated by the artist and his studio between 2007-9 - based on documentation of the agri-industrial landscapes of the American Great Plains, scattered with grain silos, pig production units and small towns. A fourth work from the same series was shown concurrently at the Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, as part of Infinitum, the final part of a trilogy of exhibitions mounted by Axel Vervoordt which began in 2007 with Artempo: When Time Becomes Art. The project was curated by Jasper Sharp and Patrick T. Murphy.

Excellent condition: Minimal surface and edge wear to the covers from storage, internally clean, bright and tightly bound.