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House Equanimity Joseph N. Biondo (Masterpiece Series)

Foreword by Wendy Ornelas Introduction by Byron Hawes Epilogue by Joseph N. Biondo Photography by Steve Wolfe Edited by Oscar Riera Ojeda

Not all masterpieces scream for attention. Some wait with patience, with composure, for their genius to be felt. Joseph Biondo’s Equanimity House is just such a work of art; the exceptional, hiding in plain sight. Born of a tectonic language, the structure is built to coalesce with its surroundings, becoming one with the rolling topography of its site. A mature, elegant, considered work of great beauty, Biondo has achieved the apogee of his exploration of ordinary materials in extraordinary ways. As he says, ‘To heighten one’s awareness of a humble material can be poetic’. A sensorial tone poem, this is a house that is felt, rather than viewed, driving the senses that intuit gravity, temperature, interaction, texture, and aesthetics.

Book Size: 8,5 x 11 in / 216 x 279 mm Format: Portrait Pages: 200 Language: English Photographs: 160 Illustrations: 68 Edition: Hardcover (978-1-946226-06-8)

Harry Seidler: The Exhibition Organizing, Curating, Designing, and Producing a World Tour

Authored by Vladimir Belogolovsky

Vladimir Belogolovsky’s Harry Seidler: The Exhibition leaves no stone unturned in documenting his ongoing, four years in the making to date, world tour exhibition, Harry Seidler: Painting Toward Architecture. It examines the blurry boundaries between art and architecture and how these disciplines inspire one another by bringing to focus the work of Vienna-born Australian modernist Harry Seidler and his creative collaborations with a dozen of world-renowned architects and artists.

Curator of 20 Seidler exhibitions and author of Harry Seidler: Lifework (Rizzoli, 2014), Belogolovsky provides detailed insights into the project from beginning to end: pitching initial exhibition idea to the client, developing its concept, arranging the tour, preparing the content, designing individual exhibitions, managing installations, presenting the lecture, initiating new collaborations and projects.

The book’s focus on a single touring exhibition is unprecedented; it explores what typical exhibition catalogues miss entirely – spatial engagement with the content by the public. In its attempt to present various aspects of a single exhibition the book raises fundamental curatorial issues beyond the project in question.

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Book Size: 8 x 10 in / 203.2 x 254 mm                                   Format: Portrait Pages: 272         Language: English         Photographs: 410 Illustrations: 50 Edition/ ISBN: Hardcover (978-1-946226-10-5) Hardcover in Slipcase (978-1-946226-11-2)