Description

A collaboration between sculptor Olaf Nicolai and photographer Heidi Specker,<br>this artist book poetically captures Nicolai s intervention during the reconstruction<br>of the Bauhaus Masters Houses once home to Moholy-Nagy, Kandinsky and Klee,<br>among others in Dessau. Coating the walls with marble dust with varying<br>degrees of granulation to create geometrical patterns, Nicolai produced a subtle<br>relief that responds to the homes changing light conditions. Specker in turn<br>gives the camouflaged surfaces a heightened sense of presence through her<br>photographic renderings that direct the viewer s gaze to the interplay of contour,<br>surface, space and light. In Nicolai and Specker s joint publication, an aesthetic<br>intervention in a reconstructed space finds another iteration through the medium<br>of photography in book form. The soft cover and Chinese fold give this elegant<br>artist book and abstract journey through an iconic space a supple, organic feel. — F.to: 20,5x27; pagg. 48; 35 COL; rileg. brossura. Editore: Spector Books, Leipzig, 2015.