Vrai Ou Faux - Hardcover

Veronique Bourgoin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3902675764 ISBN 13: 9783902675767

Publisher: Ram Publications, 2014

Synopsis

Between 2010 and 2013, artist and photographer Véronique Bourgoin staged a series of sensory disorienting, Surrealist-influenced installations at the Netherlands Fotomuseum that went on to travel to Hamburg, Vienna, Arles and Istanbul. The museum walls were covered with floor-to-ceiling, black and white trompe l oeil blow-ups of 19th-century interiors Art Nouveau lounges and Rococo dressing rooms with brocade wallpaper and heavy drapery. Over this impressive display, Bourgoin installed, salon-style, reproductions of artworks and photographs selected from each participating museum s collection. Like the shock experienced when photography was invented, viewers experience anew the tension between being there and not being there. The entire event is brilliantly documented with two publications; a formal Victorian-styled family album and an oversized unbound newspaper. Included is an essay by Ursula Panhans-Bu hler and an interview with the artist by Bernard Marcadé.

Published by Fotohof Editions, Austria; and Royal Book Lodge, France

Edition details

• Publisher: Ram Publications
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 3902675764
• ISBN 13: 9783902675767
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160