Elements
By: edited by Jessica Gysel, Christoph Miler, Isabel Seiffert
Publisher: Jan van Eyck Academie
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Maastricht]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9789083015941
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Four elements (Philosophy) in art
Other titles: Seeing, feeling, imagining through the four classical elements
Description: Based on a collaboration between art and cultural institutions in Dutch Limburg, Belgian Limburg and Liège, 'Elements' is a publication?catalogue that gathers a series of art and design exhibitions and programmes that have taken place in 2021. 00The publication sheds light on such classical elements as water, earth, fire, air which were proposed by ancient cultures to explain the nature and complexity of all matter in terms of simpler substances. The work explores how zinc, plastic, skin or electricity are part of a bigger story in which earth, fire, air and water are mined, polluted, intoxicated, genetically manipulated, technologically enhanced.00Contributing artists and writers: Persis Bekkering, Frederik Willem Daem, David Habets, Christoph Miler, Viktor Hachmang, Anna Haifisch, Fabio Barille, Guillaume Simoneau, Marvin Leuvrey, Elena Aya Bundurakis, Grace Ndiritu.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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