Prospero's Library [Exhibition Catalog]

Utopian Heights Studio, [Published date: 2016]. Softcover, 72 pp; 28cm); Full color reproductions of the installation pieces. In good+ condition with a crease length-wise on the rear cover near the spine and light bumping and creasing to edges and corners of covers. Light overall scuffing to edges as well with a bit of the color scuffed off along edges. Binding tight. "Geographic Acupuncture" written in ink on top corner of title page. Otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. Catalog published in connection with the exhibition entitled "Prospero's Library", a collaborative installation by artists Nancy Mee and Dennis Evans. The exhibition was held at Woodside/Braseth Gallery, Seattle, Washington, from August 31 - October 8, 2016. [From Artists' statement} This exhibition is based on an idea found in "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare and secondarily the film by Peter Greenaway Prospero's Books. Magician Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, and his daughter, Miranda, have been stranded for twelve years on an island after Prospero's jealous brother Antonio (aided by Alonso, the King of Naples) deposed him and set him adrift with the then-3-year-old Miranda. Gonzalo, the King's counselor, had secretly supplied their boat with plenty of food, water, clothes and the most-prized books from Prospero's library. These books enabled Prospero to find his way across oceans, to combat malignant spirits, to colonize an island, to educate and entertain Miranda and to summon Tempests. "Knowing I loved my Books, he furnished me From mine own Library with volumes that I prized above my Dukedom." The artists, husband and wife Dennis Evans and Nancy Mee, have collaborated on this exhibition, and for the first time have actually collaborated on individual pieces. They have created in their own styles and personal vernacular, speculations of what "Prospero's Library" might have looked like. And so in Prospero's/Shakespeare's voice, "Now I want Spirits to enforce, and Art to enchant . . . ".