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Olaf Nicolai, Heidi Specker : le pigment de la lumière

Title
Olaf Nicolai, Heidi Specker : le pigment de la lumière / herausgegeben von der Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau.
Publication
  • Leipzig, Germany : Spector Books, [2015]
  • ©2015

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Book/TextUse in library N6888.N527 A4 2015Off-site

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Additional Authors
  • Nicolai, Olaf, 1962-
  • Specker, Heidi
  • Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau.
Description
48 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 27 cm
Summary
Olaf Nicolai developed the work Le pigment de la lumière for the reconstructed Master's Houses in Dessau. It involved coating the walls with marble dust with varying degrees of granulation to create a geometrical pattern, thus producing a subtle relief that responds to the changing light conditions. In this work, Nicolai continues to pursue his artistic interest in grappling with the formal concept of camouflage, since, to begin with, the wall surfaces are almost invisible to the viewer. Heidi Specker gives Le pigment de la lumière a heightened sense of presence in her photography. Her pictures direct the gaze of the viewer to the contouring and the interplay of surface and space -- a reflective phenomenon that is a calculated part of Nicolai's wall surfaces. In Nicolai and Specker's joint publication, an aesthetic intervention in the reconstructed space is further extrapolated using the medium of photography presented in book form.
Alternative Title
Pigment de la lumière
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • catalogs (documents)
  • Catalogs
  • Catalogs.
  • Catalogues.
Note
  • All illustrated.
  • Contains no title page, title from cover.
Language (note)
  • Text in German, English, and French.
ISBN
  • 9783944669588
  • 3944669584
LCCN
9783944669588
OCLC
  • ocn918792786
  • 918792786
  • SCSB-1828305
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library