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Author: BORKA, MAX
Title: Open-end : Marti Guixe / preface Franc¸oise Foulton ; essay by Max Borka
Description: Oostkamp : Stichting Kunstboek 2008. First Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective wrapping.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 151 pages; Physical description. : 151 p. : chiefly col. Ill. ; 26 cm. Summary: The work of self-delcared ex-designer Marti Guixe (b.1964) can aptly be described as 'beyond design'. Instead of creating new objects. which he finds rather 'superfluous' and 'boring' Guixe prefers to concentrate on ideas. systems and living matter like food and human behaviour. As a 'global designer'. constantly travelling between Berlin and his city of birth Barcelona. Guixe analyses situations. rituals and gestures and proposes radical solutions with minimal ergonomics - simple. immaterial. humorous and often iconoclastic. This fascinating book will be linked to an exposition in Grand Hornu Images. in the summer of 2008. Subject: Guixe. Marti´ - Criticism and interpretation.Weight in Kg appr.:
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Title: Open-end : Marti Guixe / preface Franc¸oise Foulton ; essay by Max Borka
Description: Oostkamp : Stichting Kunstboek 2008. First Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective wrapping.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 151 pages; Physical description. : 151 p. : chiefly col. Ill. ; 26 cm. Summary: The work of self-delcared ex-designer Marti Guixe (b.1964) can aptly be described as 'beyond design'. Instead of creating new objects. which he finds rather 'superfluous' and 'boring' Guixe prefers to concentrate on ideas. systems and living matter like food and human behaviour. As a 'global designer'. constantly travelling between Berlin and his city of birth Barcelona. Guixe analyses situations. rituals and gestures and proposes radical solutions with minimal ergonomics - simple. immaterial. humorous and often iconoclastic. This fascinating book will be linked to an exposition in Grand Hornu Images. in the summer of 2008. Subject: Guixe. Marti´ - Criticism and interpretation.Weight in Kg appr.:
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Price: EUR 32.00 = appr. US$ 34.78 Seller: MW Books
- Book number: 207811
- Book number: 207811