Main entry:

Ólafur Elíasson, 1967- artist.

Title & Author:

Your house.

Publication:

New York : Library Council of the Museum of Modern Art, [2006]
©2006

Description:

1 volume (454 unnumbered leaves) ; 28 x 44 x 11 cm

Notes:
Cover title.
"YOUR HOUSE by Olafur Eliasson PUBLISHED by the Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York CONCEPT by Olafur Eliasson REALIZATION/DESIGN by groenlandberlin, Michael Heimann, Claudia Baulesch COMPUTER-AIDED MODELING by Georg Sagurna PRODUCED by Kremo, Mosbach, and Markus Rottmann, Heiner Hauck Portfolios, Berlin ORGANIZED by Caroline Eggel at Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin, with May Castleberry, Editor, Contemporary Editions, at The Museum of Modern Art, New York ..."--Colophon.
Limited edition of 225 copies of which 140 are reserved for members of the Library Council of the Museum of Modern Art.
Each leaf is laser cut to represent a vertical cross-section of artist Olafur Eliasson's house in Hellerup, Denmark. The effect of the succession of bound leaves is to create a 3-dimensional view of the interior of the house.
Architect of the house: Andreas Clemmensen.

Summary:

Olafur Eliasson's Your House is an oversize, sculptural volume evoking a passage through a turn-of-the-twentieth-century European house in the Nordic Romantic style--the artist's own house in Copenhagen, Denmark. The book's 454 handbound leaves (or 908 pages) digitally reproduce a series of vertical cross-sections of the house on a scale of 85:1 (so that each leaf corresponds to 2.2 centimeters of the actual house). In addition, each leaf is individually laser-cut to create negative spaces in the paper, and these apertures, opening on the shifting forms of cut pages to come, cumulatively produce the sensorial illusion of being inside the house--Publisher's website.

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic Denmark Hellerup.
Artists' books Specimens.
Denmark Hellerup

Form/genre:

laser-cut paper.
artists' books (books)
book objects.
Artists' books
Book objects.
Livres d'artistes.
Livres-sculptures.

Added entries:

Heimann, Michael, designer.
Baulesch, Claudia, designer.
Sagurna, Georg, computer modeler.
Clemmensen, Andreas, 1852-1928, architect.
Groenlandberlin (Firm), designer.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Library Council, publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library cage m 249380
Call No.: N44.O42.A785 2006
Status: Available

Location: Library cage m 250272
Call No.: N44.O42.A785 2006
Copy: pamphlet
Status: Available