les presses du réel

Downscaled and Overthrown

Shahryar Nashat - Downscaled and Overthrown
First monograph on the work of the Swiss artist.
Published on the occasion of Shahryar Nashat's first solo exhibition in Germany at the Kunstverein Nürnberg – Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft.
Born 1975 in Tehran, Swiss artist Shahryar Nashat lives and works in Berlin. Whether he truncates Renaissance bronze sculptures through photography, or redesigns a section of the Louvre to accommodate the baroque frescoes of Rubens while filming a well-trained athlete performing a one-armed handstand while looking at the paintings, Nashat's works and exhibitions involve his interest in art collections, art libraries, reproduction of works of art, as well as questions relating to appropriation and artistic reuse, display issues, and apparatus. Lighting, plinths, pedestals, and the mode of projecting and positioning all play pivotal roles in Nashat's video installations, sculpture, etchings, and photographs. Wherever he draws his source or reference material from, he consistently makes a certain artificiality or constructedness obvious in order to generate the possibility of critical reflection about the medium itself.
Text by Dominic Eichler; conversation with the artist by Giovanni Carmine and Kathleen Rahn.
 
published in November 2010
bilingual edition (English / German)
17 x 24 cm (hardcover)
60 pages (93 color & 28 b/w ill.)
 
ISBN : 978-1-934105-26-9
EAN : 9781934105269
 
sold out
Downscaled and Overthrown Downscaled and Overthrown Downscaled and Overthrown Downscaled and Overthrown
topicsShahryar Nashat: other titles



Shahryar Nashat: also present in









related to



 top of page