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Idol Structures - Sculptures and Photographs by Matt Siber
Matt Siber
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Description for Idol Structures - Sculptures and Photographs by Matt Siber
Paperback. Num Pages: 50 pages. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFKB; AGB; AGC; AJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 244.
Idol Structures accompanies an exhibition at the DePaul Art Museum of recent photographs and sculptures by Chicago-based artist Matt Siber, whose work explores the systems of corporate and mass-media communication that permeate the urban landscape. Instead of focusing on the information itself, Siber emphasizes the physical infrastructure of these systems. Photographs of the narrow edges of signs, sculptures of billboard ads hanging so loosely that their text is obscured in the folds, and other unique treatments of promotional materials distort and subvert the intended messages. The artist's deconstruction of such commercial efforts reveals an element of communication meant to remain ... Read more
Idol Structures accompanies an exhibition at the DePaul Art Museum of recent photographs and sculptures by Chicago-based artist Matt Siber, whose work explores the systems of corporate and mass-media communication that permeate the urban landscape. Instead of focusing on the information itself, Siber emphasizes the physical infrastructure of these systems. Photographs of the narrow edges of signs, sculptures of billboard ads hanging so loosely that their text is obscured in the folds, and other unique treatments of promotional materials distort and subvert the intended messages. The artist's deconstruction of such commercial efforts reveals an element of communication meant to remain ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
DePaul University Art Museum United States
Number of pages
50
Condition
New
Number of Pages
50
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9780985096014
SKU
V9780985096014
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About Matt Siber
Matt Siber is a photographer and sculptor who works and resides in Chicago. Gregory J. Harris is assistant curator at the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago. David Raskin is the Mohn Family Professor of Contemporary Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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