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Rashid Johnson : blocks.

Title
Rashid Johnson : blocks.
Author
Johnson, Rashid, 1977-
Publication
Berlin : Hauser & Wirth, in collabotation with Distanz, c2016.

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Additional Authors
  • Alemani, Cecilia
  • Galerie Hauser & Wirth publisher.
  • Friends of the High Line
Description
68 p. : col. ill.; 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-
  • Installations (Art) > New York (State) > New York > Exhibitions
  • Installations (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
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Interviews
Note
  • "High Line Art."
  • Book has special paperback binding with only one side fixed to the book (spine not attached).
  • On the occasion of an exhibition held on the High Line at Little West Street 12 Street, New York City, May 2015-March 2016.
Contents
Rashid Johnson and Cecilia Alemani in conversation.
ISBN
  • 9783954761685
  • 3954761688
OCLC
  • 957138779
  • SCSB-10242785
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library