Research Catalog

Title

Rashid Johnson : blocks.

Author

Johnson, Rashid, 1977-

Publication

• Berlin : Hauser & Wirth, in collaboration with Distanz, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Alemani, Cecilia
• Galerie Hauser & Wirth, publisher.
• Friends of the High Line, hosting institution.

Description

68 pages : color illustrations; 28 cm

Summary

The High Line is a 1.45-mile stretch of disused elevated freight tracks on Manhattan's West Side that was converted into a park between 2006 and 2014. In 2015, the American artist Rashid Johnson (b. Chicago, Ill., 1977; lives and works in New York, N.Y.) installed a publicly accessible sculpture on the tracks. Commissioned by the High Line Art program, it consisted of a shelf-like black metal construction that housed a number of bright yellow busts. Blocks presents comprehensive photographic documentation of the eponymous work's evolving interaction with the lush vegetation into which it intervened. Over the course of the full year for which the sculpture stood on the site, plants of different species grew through its grid structure, lending it a forever changing aspect as the seasons passed. The pictures illustrate the poetic quality of the time-limited relationship between a man-made construction and nature, touching on themes such as optimism, failure, regeneration, and desolation. A conversation between Cecilia Alemani, chief curator of High Line Art, and Rashid Johnson sheds light on the genesis of Blocks and the artist's approach to making work for public settings.

Alternative Title

Blocks

Subject

• Johnson, Rashid, 1977- > Exhibitions
• Johnson, Rashid, 1977- > Interviews
• Johnson, Rashid, 1977-
• Outdoor art > New York (State) > New York > Exhibitions
• African American art > New York (State) > New York > Exhibitions
• African American artists > New York (State) > New York > Exhibitions
• Installations (Art)
• Outdoor art
• High Line (New York, N.Y. : Park) > Exhibitions
• New York (State) > New York
• New York (State) > New York > High Line (Park)

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• Interviews.

Note

• "High Line Art, presented by Friends of the High Line"--Colophon.

Binding (note)

• Book has special paperback binding with only one side fixed to the book (spine not attached).

Exhibitions (note)

• Published on the occasion of an exhibition held on the High Line at Little West 12th Street, New York City, May 2015-March 2016.

Contents

Rashid Johnson and Cecilia Alemani in conversation.

Call Number

ReCAP 18-7999

ISBN

• 9783954761685
• 3954761688

OCLC

957138779

Author

Johnson, Rashid, 1977- artist.

Title

Rashid Johnson : blocks.

Publisher

Berlin : Hauser & Wirth, in collaboration with Distanz, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Binding

Book has special paperback binding with only one side fixed to the book (spine not attached).

Exhibitions

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held on the High Line at Little West 12th Street, New York City, May 2015-March 2016.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Alemani, Cecilia, interviewer.

Galerie Hauser & Wirth, publisher.

Friends of the High Line, hosting institution.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 18-7999

JQF 17-16