Fabrice Samyn
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Vinciane Despret, Pascal Rousseau, and Wivine de Traux
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The first major monograph on the work of contemporary Belgian artist Fabrice Samyn
Contemporary Belgian artist Fabrice Samyn (b. 1981) works in a wide variety of media, including painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and recently choreography. His art engages with history and the passage of time, raising important questions about representation, idolatry, iconoclasm, and ecology in our contemporary world. In the artist’s own words, “My work attempts to reveal time, or rather natural phenomena of time (erosion for example) as creative.” One of his best-known series, “Sinai” (2010), features photographic images of the necks of Greek sculptures, cropped and lit in such a way that they become abstract landscapes. This book is the first to offer an in-depth exploration of the full scope of Samyn’s oeuvre. Copiously illustrated, the book also includes penetrating essays by prominent European philosophers and art historians.
Contemporary Belgian artist Fabrice Samyn (b. 1981) works in a wide variety of media, including painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and recently choreography. His art engages with history and the passage of time, raising important questions about representation, idolatry, iconoclasm, and ecology in our contemporary world. In the artist’s own words, “My work attempts to reveal time, or rather natural phenomena of time (erosion for example) as creative.” One of his best-known series, “Sinai” (2010), features photographic images of the necks of Greek sculptures, cropped and lit in such a way that they become abstract landscapes. This book is the first to offer an in-depth exploration of the full scope of Samyn’s oeuvre. Copiously illustrated, the book also includes penetrating essays by prominent European philosophers and art historians.
Distributed for Mercatorfonds
Exhibition Schedule:
Gallerie Sies + Hoek, Düsseldorf
(2020)
(2020)
Vinciane Despret is a philosopher of science and associate professor at the University of Liege. Pascal Rousseau is professor of contemporary art history at the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne. Wivine de Traux is an art historian and art critic based in Brussels.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Gallerie Sies + Hoek, Düsseldorf
(2020)
(2020)
ISBN: 9780300250466
Publication Date: August 24, 2021
Publishing Partner: Distributed for Mercatorfonds
Publication Date: August 24, 2021
Publishing Partner: Distributed for Mercatorfonds
224 pages, 9 1/2 x 11 5/8
200 color + b/w illus.
200 color + b/w illus.
Sales Restrictions: World excluding Benelux
