The cover suggests a scenic, almost surreally beautiful landscape in which you could imagine yourself escaping for an afternoon picnic. Disguised under the monochromatic palette and aerial orientation, Los Mares de Salton (I), 2008 [Salton Seas (I)] is actually anything but ideal. In the new book published by La Fábrica, artist Florian Maier-Aichen is showcasing a body of photographs that stand as solitary monuments being brought together through their naturalistic contradictions. Novelist William T. Vollmann described the shores of the Salton Seas for Outside Magazine as being made up of “…not sand but barnacle shells, fish bones, fish scales, fish corpses, and bird corpses, its accompaniment an almost unbearable ammoniac stench like rancid urine magnified.” The question of “what’s in a photograph?” is a mere scratch at the surface for Maier-Aichen’s work. Each landscape creates an ever expanding list of questions that even he may not be able to answer. – Kyle Hinton for The Last Magazine
- Distant and Fading
At the end of the night I went to the very pink and dusty extra bedroom and tried my best to sleep that early. I woke up eight hours later from the light coming in beneath the blinds and realized it was barely six in the morning.
- American Sculptor:
Tom Sachs Interview It’s more logistical than anything. Being freelance it’s either feast or famine. The Animals show was postponed three times in as many years and delaying it again would have meant cancelling it.
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