Earth Extremes: Nine Projects Made of Space and Time - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3858813052 ISBN 13: 9783858813053

Publisher: Scheidegger and Spiess, 2010

Synopsis

“When producing works of art, the artist judges a piece’s themes from a point of view that is characteristic of his beliefs and to the perspective that he takes on things. In many cases, this point of view is set outside the system the piece is about”

            
So writes artist Christian Waldgovel in Earth Extremes, a collection of nine of his projects from the past six years. For the pieces in Earth Extremes, Waldgovel situates his point of view in space, using photography and digital imagery to examine our world within the solar system. In Top of the World, for example, Waldvogel imagines approaching the Earth from another galaxy, as though he was an alien traveling from another planet. In another, Waldgovel imagines Galileo’s fate had he the opportunity to observe the Earth from the Moon. Combining science with art and imagination, Earth Extremes offers readers a glimpse of what it’s like to travel through the final frontier.

About this title

About the Author:

Christian Waldvogel is an architect, artist, and musician living in Switzerland. Jacqueline Burckhardt is art historian and contributor to various books and art journals. She is coeditor of Parkett art magazine in Zürich.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scheidegger and Spiess
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 3858813052
• ISBN 13: 9783858813053
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 495
• Editor: Burckhardt Jacqueline, Voegeli Jonas
• Illustrator: Waldvogel Christian