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Richard Wilson by Michael Archer undifferentiated, Simon Morrissey, Harry Stocks, Richard Wilson is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Richard Wilson about?

Richard Wilson is one of the foremost exponents of installation art working in the world today. His seminal work 20:50, a sea of reflective sump oil permanently installed in the Saatchi Collection, London, has been described as "one of the masterpieces of the twentieth century", and has come to stand as the defining example of installation. Recent pieces have continued to generate critical acclaim, including Slice of Reality, a 20-metre-high vertical cross-section of a 600-ton dredger located in the Thames at Greenwich, London, and Set North for Japan (74[degree] 33' 2"), a full-scale steel-framework replica of the artist's own house, displaced and inverted in the Japanese countryside. This, the first monograph on the artist, examines the full spectrum of Wilson's work, moving from models, drawings and his many gallery-based projects to collaborations with architects and engineers to realize such major architectural interventions as Over Easy, an 8-metre, imperceptibly rotating, disc-shaped section of a building's facade that challenges our collective expectation and experience of how space and materials should behave. Richard Wilson has always been fascinated by displacements of t

Author

Michael Archer undifferentiated, Simon Morrissey, Harry Stocks, Richard Wilson

Publisher

Merrell : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Rizzoli International

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781858941554

Subjects

Art, History, Arts