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All photographs courtesy of Tom Buchanan, shared with permission
A brand new ebook from London-based artist and curator Tom Buchanan revolves round what he phrases “box art.” Encompassing what has “evolved, been created within, or even escaped from a box,” the 336-page compendium attracts collectively greater than 500 assemblages, collections, dioramas, miniatures, and different works that play with and reenvision the bounds of the standard container.
Titled Out of the Box, the quantity options a big selection of mediums and kinds from enchanting paper dioramas by Hari & Deepti to Ben Young’s sleek glass sculptures mimicking swimming pools and seas to Wolfgang Stiller’s charred matchstick figures. The ebook is organized by the 4 parts—earth, water, air, and hearth—and highlights the narratives that emerge from bodily gathering and displaying objects, particularly as life turns into more and more digital. “We live, arrange, watch, and rest in death in boxes, and this collection is a testament to the absurdity and wonder that is life,” Buchanan says.
Out of the Box is revealed by Eight Books and is at the moment out there within the U.Ok. Find extra from Buchanan on his site.
#books
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#miniature
#Tom Buchanan
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