Matts Leiderstam: Seen Through the Grid
€48
Keyword: research project, artist book, the grid, history of painting, queer viewing, Swedish artist
Size: 230 x 290 mm Pages: 80 Format: booklets and a poster in a die cut folder Language: English, Swedish Illustration: in colour Editor: Johanna Widlund Crisman Text: Matts Leiderstam, Maria Lind Photography: Svante Larsson Book design: Patrick Lacey/ÅBÄKE Printing: die Keure Publisher: Art & Theory Pub Year: 2023 Weight: 440 gr ISBN: 9789198672169Description
Article no.: 9789198672169
Research project on painting, the grid and its relation to the gaze, resulting in a smashing artist book!
From the publisher:
Matts Leiderstam’s art and researched-based work is closely related to the history of painting. He is systematically looking for alternative, queer, narratives relating to viewing a painting. Leiderstam explores the grid as a tool for the composition of images, which was developed during the Italian Renaissance. The grid has been central to image-making ever since, including for photography, and not least for computer-generated images in a contemporary context where we are continuously connected to a global data network via our screens.
Leiderstam’s ideas/reflections and examination of the grid and its relation to the gaze is also a research project. The new book, Seen Through the Grid, marks the end of the project and includes a foreword and a text by Matts Leiderstam, a text by curator, writer and director of Konstmuseet i Norr/Norrbotten County Art Museum Maria Lind as well as a conversation between Matts Leiderstam and Maria Lind. The book's layout and design result from a close collaboration between graphic designer Patrick Lacey, photographer Svante Larsson and Matts Leiderstam.
From the publisher:
Matts Leiderstam’s art and researched-based work is closely related to the history of painting. He is systematically looking for alternative, queer, narratives relating to viewing a painting. Leiderstam explores the grid as a tool for the composition of images, which was developed during the Italian Renaissance. The grid has been central to image-making ever since, including for photography, and not least for computer-generated images in a contemporary context where we are continuously connected to a global data network via our screens.
Leiderstam’s ideas/reflections and examination of the grid and its relation to the gaze is also a research project. The new book, Seen Through the Grid, marks the end of the project and includes a foreword and a text by Matts Leiderstam, a text by curator, writer and director of Konstmuseet i Norr/Norrbotten County Art Museum Maria Lind as well as a conversation between Matts Leiderstam and Maria Lind. The book's layout and design result from a close collaboration between graphic designer Patrick Lacey, photographer Svante Larsson and Matts Leiderstam.