Elmgreen & Dragset
“Elmgreen & Dragset” by Martin Herbert is a comprehensive presentation of the artistic duo’s work, published by Phaidon Press on May 22, 2019. This 160-page book explores their constructed environments, celebrated for their mischievous and cerebral nature. It covers a range of their projects from the late 1990s to recent public installations, showcasing how they draw from diverse disciplines such as institutional critique, social politics, performance, design, and architecture.
Readers will find detailed discussions of significant works, including the transformation of New York’s Bohen Foundation into a subway station and the installation of a statue on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth. The book also highlights their iconic sculpture “Van Gogh’s Ear,” located at Rockefeller Center. Through their characteristic wit, Elmgreen & Dragset challenge conventional experiences of art, making this edition a notable addition to the Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series.
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Elmgreen & Dragset’s constructed environments have been celebrated all over the world for their mischievous, cerebral, and accessible nature. This is the first comprehensive presentation of the duo’s work, from their early performative pieces in the late 1990s to their most recent public projects
Drawing from disciplines as divergent as institutional critique, social politics, performance, design, and architecture, Elmgreen & Dragset’s work reconfigure the familiar with characteristic and subversive wit. Their sculptures and installations, also known as ‘Powerless Structures’, have redefined what it means to experience art – the cover features their work Van Gogh’s Ear, a sculpture in the form of a swimming pool, which is located on Fifth Avenue in New York at the entrance to the Rockefeller Center.
This book includes all of their most significant projects, from the transformation of New York’s Bohen Foundation into a subway station in 2004, to the siting of a fake Prada boutique in the Texan desert in 2005, and the installation of the statue of a child on a rocking horse on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2012.
Elmgreen & Dragset is the latest addition to the acclaimed Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series.
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