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Ellen Kooi above Rotterdam : One Glass Tower by Wiel Arets and Nine Situations by Katrien Van Den Brande / edited by John Bezold.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architectural photography.
- Architecture--Netherlands--Rotterdam--Pictorial works.
- Architecture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (184 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Actar, [2016]
- Summary:
- High above the streets of Rotterdam, on cold winter nights, during early spring evenings, and dusky autumn days; five situations were staged and captured by artist Ellen Kooi, inside the B' Tower in Rotterdam, by architect Wiel Arets. Nearly each apartment is identical, which lends a receded repetition to the 'stage sets' Kooi created, in the tradition of her renowned landscape photography. In Kooi's 'sets', a sleeping young girl cuddles with whimsical Weimaraners; a lonely business man digitally pines for his distant love; a young couple saunters and seduces one another, inside and out; an informal dinner gathering morphs into an impromptu musical; a mother creates a dream world for her and her children, high above Rotterdam's streets. Interspersed throughout Kooi's sets of imagery are separately created scenes of poetry and prose, by artist Katrien Van den Brande, which alternate with Kooi's narratives-all graphically woven together by a design from Mainstudio. This publication is a two-dimensional immersion into a parallel urban reality, that's at once fantasy and fiction-yet remarkably familiar.
- Contents:
- Intro
- From Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Rotterdam Central Station
- Apartment 254
- Level 2, Parking Garage, 4th Floor
- Allegory of Hearing
- Elevator
- Initiations in a Piston
- Apartment 234
- 16th Floor, Apartment 230
- The Sightline of the Destroyed City
- Apartment 206
- Basement
- Basement Graffiti
- 16th Floor, Apartment 236
- Night of Table and Bath
- Apartment 230
- 13th Floor, Apartment 246
- Ennio's Video Call
- 13th Floor, Apartment 201
- Notes: Times, Sightlines, and Atmospheres
- Apartment 242
- Studio 210, 13th Floor
- Time
- Biographies.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Bezold, John Ellen Kooi Above Rotterdam
- ISBN:
- 9781638408550
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