Wolf laurent b 1944 (1 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fine. - Quarto [11 inches high by 8-5/8 inches wide], softcover bound in printed tan wrappers. The binding is very slightly soiled. 31 pages plus colophon. Illustrated with 11 color plates. Near fine. Limited edition of 700 copies. Laid in are a price-list for the exhibited paintings and a card advertising another of the center's exhibitions.The one-page introduction by Paul Nizon is printed in the original German with a French translation.The work of Laurent Wolf, an artist and sociologist, is centered on the use and creation of space in society in general, and in art in particular. Nizon writes that the subject of the paintings in this exhibition [works which he relates to constructivism and cubism] is the 'favelas' or slums of Rio which climb up the hillside like a "fortress" built of cubes piled on top of one another--"la question de urbanisation en son essence".Rare.…