Title: Canon
Description: Canon, a photographic documentation of historical and contemporary coffee-table books about the African continent, creates the frame for Wohnseifer's most recent artist book. Using the principles of object photography, the book-covers and pages work as a kind of contextual parenthesis for a sculpture series. Composed of seven shelf-like objects, each 'shelf' is in turn made out of nine elements which correspond in form, colour and material exactly to those used by Gerrit Rietveld for his 'Berliner Stuhl'.
Subjects: Africans, Pictorial works, Artists' books
Places: Germany
People: Johannes Wohnseifer (1967-)