Jason Rhoades: Perfect World - Softcover

Rhoades, Jason; Meyer-Hermann, Eva

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3896110845 ISBN 13: 9783896110848

Publisher: Oktagon, 2001

Synopsis

"All good thoughts and all good works of art run on their own as a perpetual motion machine, mentally and sometimes physically; they are very alive," says Jason Rhoades. Bearing witness to the animating possibilities of art, Jason Rhoades' recent installation, "Perfect World", is a monumental piece of work in all senses of the term. Here five miles of new aluminum bars have been transformed into a shiny, cathedral-like jungle. The installation's upper level features a hodgepodge of monster puppets and various bric-a-brac, along with a reproduction of the Garden of Eden--a photographic collage of the vegetable garden kept by Rhoades' father. This lavishly illustrated book is a playfully beautiful document of the installation, featuring an aluminum-coated dust jacket and a fold-out photograph of Rhoades' "garden."

About this title

About the Author

Jason Rhoades was born in Newcastle, California, in 1965, and studied at the San Francisco Institute of the Arts and the University of California at Los Angeles, where he received his MFA. Since the early 1990s his work has been exhibited at the 1995 and 1997 Whitney Biennials, the 1997 and 1999 Venice Biennials, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, the Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany, and the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, among many other international galleries and museums.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oktagon
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3896110845
• ISBN 13: 9783896110848
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 92
• Editor: Felix Zdenek