You can order the book from my website, from my eBay store or directly from me via email. Click here for deluxe edition and the standard edition.
Above, the cover and below, the book housed inside its limited edition black box with silver embossed cover.
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Beautifully printed in Italy on medium weight, lightly textured paper, measuring 9.25 x 13" with 32 pages including six fold-outs. The edition is comprised of 223 copies: 200 in the regular edition + 23 copies in the deluxe edition. Each book is signed and numbered.
The standard edition: $40.00, the deluxe edition: $1,350.00, prices do not include shipping and packaging. The deluxe edition includes an original
piece of art, one of the 23 collaborative images used in the book,
housed along with a copy of book in a beautiful black box with the title and design engraved in
silver on the box cover. Official launch date was September 15 at the MoMA PS1 Art Book Fair.
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Introduction
Creating Doctor Seek And
Mister Hide, their second book
for Vasta Editions, Mirka Lugosi and Gilles Berquet found inspiration in
twentieth century art history, from surrealism to abstraction.
The book's terrestrial origins are based in Gilles' photographs of the
nude female figure. His prints, on high quality matte paper, become the ground
beneath Mirka's celestial imaginings. With pencil and gouache, her beautiful
compositions interact with the figures and space in his images in surprising
ways, from playfully colorful to mysteriously dark.
Viewed individually, their artwork is sublime, filled with erotic
sensibilities. When brought together their combined visions enhance as well as
contradict each other, reflecting the multiple personalities of an inseparable
couple. The results, as dark as they are luminous, seduce us with delicacy as
much as they frighten us with cruelty.
Their alter egos, hidden in the pages and fold-outs, anticipate the
viewer's discovery: the redhead with venous necklace, a Nereid looking out at a foreign sea, decorated voluptuaries offering refreshment or themselves, a book lover bathed
in red light …
Where is your favorite image hiding?
- Joseph Vasta
- Joseph Vasta
vasta@earthlink.net
