michalis pichler (allemagne) new york garbage flag profile

MICHALIS PICHLER (ALLEMAGNE) NEW YORK GARBAGE FLAG PROFILE — 2005
MICHALIS PICHLER (ALLEMAGNE) NEW YORK GARBAGE FLAG
PROFILE — 2005 ( REVOLVER BOOKS, FRANCFORT, ALLEMAGNE)
Livre
21 x 15 cm — non paginé - 212 pages — dos carré cousu collé ; couv. plastifiée jaune
souple ; ill. couleur
collection cneai= CN_PICHM009
Collection et documentation archivistique de produits jetés et trouvés dans l'espace public de
New York City, ayant porté des descriptions du drapeau américain. La documentation
photographique est accompagnée des transcriptions de chaque texte. Un morceau plein de
photographie conceptuelle et de poésie concrète. Texte en anglais.
New York Garbage Flag Profile presents Berlin-based artist Michalis Pichler's six month long
project in which he collected and documented discarded paper cups, plastic bags, pizza boxes,
newspapers and other mass-produced materials emblazoned with the American Flag.
Photographed in the public waste baskets, gutters and snow drifts of New York where he found
them, the individual items are catalogued on a facing page with uniformly formatted
information about their location, the date of their collection, number of flags depicted, number
of stars, number of stripes, etc. Each record also includes a full transcription of the text found on
the item. The nearly three hundred color photographs in the book are organized into forensic
pairs showing the collection site before and after the artist's intervention. This clinical
presentation however belies the artist's gentle, almost reverent approach to his material
-garbage, after all.
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