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This publication provides a comprehensive document of Josiah McElheny's site-specific Bloomberg Commission exhibiting at the Whitechapel Gallery. Reflection, light and transparency are defining themes of Modernism and provide a leitmotif for the American sculptor Josiah McElheny's 2011 Bloomberg Commission, The Past Was A Mirage I'd Left Far Behind. Seven mirrored, sculptural screens double, triple and refract the projections of reconfigured abstract films, proposing a new history of abstraction as a fragmented, sensory experience. New York-based artist Josiah McElheny is a sculptor, performance artist, writer and filmmaker, best known for his use of glass with other materials. For his Bloom...
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Since he came to prominence more than 10 years ago, Josiah McElheny's remarkable work has been thrilling critics, intellectuals, & collectors. This book considers his entire body of work with contributions by some of the most important writers & thinkers today.
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This installation consists of five sculptural elements and is a fusion of design, science and the history of art.
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A master of the art of glassblowing and a practitioner of the complexities of conceptual art, Josiah McElheny stretches and twists the fragile borders between appearance and reality, truth and imagination, tradition and modernity, text and object. From original documents such as the archeological remains of a child's grave, the fashion designs of Venini, and 16th-century frescos, McElheny creates a physical world of glass.
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