Daniel Knorr: Carte de Artist
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- Daniel Knorr: Artist Book
- Daniel Knorr: Carte de Artist
- 2007
- artist book, paper, various materials
- 23 × 16 cm
In 2007, Daniel Knorr began working in Romania on an ongoing series of artist’s books into which he places pressed objects. The objects consist of garbage collected by the artist in the streets of different cities, objects that he then flattens to go between the books’ pages by using devices such as a 20-ton press. Each book is dedicated to a particular language and country, resulting in a cartography of public-space "objets trouvés," and the flattened objects themselves can also be viewed as bookmarks referring to specific cultural contexts. Moreover, they relate to Knorr’s questioning of the materiality of an artwork, a process that addresses performative elements situated between the private and the public. W.S.