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Visible Heavens from 1850–2008
Published by ECI Press, Charles H. Scott Gallery, JRP|Ringier
Artist: Andrew Dadson
Editor: Kathy Slade
Copy editor: Graham Sheard
Designer: Betty & Jan Design Co.
Publisher: ECI Press, Charles H. Scott Gallery, JRP|Ringier
Printed by: Grafiche AZ, Italy
Binding: Hardcover
Dimensions: 28.6 x 19.3 x 2 cm
Page count: 66
Language: English
ISBN: 978 0 921356 29 5
Price: 35 CAD
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Visible Heavens from 1850–2008 is an artist book based on a found star map from 1850. The “original” map was photocopied and each subsequent copy was then re-photocopied. The artist likens the slow degradation of the image to the cultural shift within our interpretation of the stars (constellation charts were called maps of the heavens but after 1975 they became known as maps of the sky) and each photocopy represents a year in the decline from “heaven” to “earth”. From start to finish the map changes from an “accurate” vision of the stars above to an abstracted blackness depicting the new “heaven” in the year 2008.
Biographies
Andrew Dadson is an emerging Vancouver-based artist. He recently had a solo exhibition at the Charles H. Scott Gallery and has been included in group exhibitions in the US, China and Europe. Dadson is represented by Galleria Franco Noero in Turin, Italy.