ONORATO / Nico Krebs~Taiyo – The Great Unreal*

€75,00

Publisher: Edition Patrick Frey, Zürich
Year: 2009
Artist: ONORATO / Nico Krebs~Taiyo
ISBN: 978-3-905509-83-0

Hardcover, 152 pages, 40 b/w images 65 color images, 22.5 x 33.3 cm
Condition: mint
First Edition

Most beautiful Swiss books, 2009
Design: Megi Zumstein / Claudio Barandun

During a space of three years, Taiyo Onorato and Nico
Krebs traveled several months through the United States, working "on the road'
on the photo series The Great Unreal. The photographic work
deals with reality and the fabrication of reality. The geography of America
serves as both setting and fertile ground for the examination. Mysticism and
demystification are important aspects in this process, as is working with a rich
inventory of visual icons that can be continually deconstructed and
manipulated. The working method of both photographers is based on interventions
prescribed mostly by happenstance and change. Through repetition and
associative placement, the sometimes crude, sometimes subtle interventions
begin to link to one another, establishing an exciting transformation of
reality that only hesitatingly reveals itself to the viewer.

Together with book designers Megi Zumstein and Claudio
Barandun, what emerged is an unmitigated picture book that makes a visual
journey possible without any instructions. It comprises narrative image
sequences that approximate the curiosity and restlessness of being on the move
and, at the same time, depict associative connections with the American
landscape.

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