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Pixel Stress
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Pixel Stress by Anouk Kruithof is a mixed-media artwork, with the first step being an image search in Google with the keyword "stress", then processing the image to obtain a pixelated version by enlarging the original to 3200%. Then, in the second phase of the project, the artist set-up a little installation on Wall Street in NYC to engage passerbys in commenting and purchasing the framed images...
This elegant book is the result of this process, with the orginal images, the pixelated versions, the portraits of the new-yorkers she talked to, and exceprts of their comments on the artworks.
This conceptual artwork, that includes an IRL ("In Real Life") "happening", is very much a research project at the fringes of photography, an explorational project that tests the possibilities offered by the medium in combination with the use of the Internet and the digital tools.
100 pages - Softcover with a rubber fastener
RVB Books, 2013
New, sealed in plastic pouch - Mint condition
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Kruithof, Anouk
Anouk Kruithof is a Dutch visual artist and photographer whose exhibitions and books merge social, conceptual, photographic, performance and video. She is best known for her artist's books "Happy Birthday to You" (self-published, 2011) , praised by Martin Parr and "A Head with Wings" (Little Brown Mushroom, 2011), praised by critic Jörg Colberg. She studied photography at the Academy of Art and Design St. Joost, Breda. In 2011 she moved to New York to live and work on her art projects. Her multilayered, interdisciplinary approach encompasses photography, sculpture, installation, artist-books, text, performance, video, animation, websites and interventions in the public domain. Among her other photobooks and publications: "Pixel Stress" (RVB Books, 2013), "The Bungalow" (Onomatopee, 2014), "Automagic" (Editorial RM, 2016) and "Universal Tongue" (Art Paper Editions, 2021). © Self -portrait of the artist.Sold out. From the editor "“Do you see something there? Why are you standing still all of a sudden?” With those words begin Anouk Kruithof’s trip into the Little Brown rabbit hole. Using hand-made montages of photographs she took in Belize, Mexico, Egypt, Morocco and Berlin, Kruithof spins a hallucinatory yarn of anxiety and desire." This book was...
Publisher's presentation: "Immersed in collector Brad Feuerhelm’s vernacular photo collection, artist Anouk Kruithof moved into a bungalow where she developed a niche relationship with the photos and transformed the image archive. She visualizes scenarios in which images, through the imaginary space of our conception, and parallel to digitization, leap...
42,00 €In StockUniversal Tongue (*1st printing*)
Presentation by APE / Art Paper Editions: " Universal Tongue celebrates the great diversity of the global dance kaleidoscope in the era of the Internet. It was born from visual artist Anouk Kruithof's fascination with dance videos distributed online as a representation of self-expression, cultural identity, empowerment and fun. In collaboration with a...
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.Back in stock. Publisher's presentation: "Augustin Rebetez in his Swiss Jura House let his imagination run. With a bunch of friends, he builds sculptures, sets, stages and imagines an astonishing permanent theatre. His book takes us into a strange tale, haunted whith masked characters engaged in mysterious activities. As we discover the photographs we...
30,00 €In StockRVB Books' presentation: "Over the course of his travels for the last ten years Tiane Doan na Champassak has been collecting Thai erotic magazines dating back to the 1960s and 1970s. With representations of nudity banned at the time, the magazines' censorship is applied with great creativity and care. For the creation of this project, Censored, the artist...
60,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Presentation by RVB Books: "Champagne is the first title of a book series to be published by artists Mazaccio & Drowilal with RVB Books. In this project closer to iconography than to photography, the duo confronts a series of representations of Misses of all sorts to those of various car racers celebrating their victory by sprinkling...
