Thomas Ehgartner Fills a Vienna Studio with 8,000 Books for Conceptual Art Installation
Posted By Helen Morgan On December 5, 2012 @ 1:15 pm In Art | No Comments
Books are a popular artistic material in the creative world, and here at Inhabitat we’ve shared a variety of inspiring book-based works of art, including a waterfall [4], a tower [5], and a house [6]. Now, artist Thomas Ehgartner [7] has used about 8,000 reclaimed books to create this conceptual installation. Lined up across a floor, the books make up Ehgartner’s “Meaning Minus Truth Conditions” installation, which was constructed within the sculpture studios of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna [8].
Ehgartner explores concepts of information sharing and archiving, and he presents ideas surrounding fragmented communication of data flow due to linguistic limits. He discusses the “excessive demands of the ever-growing amount of new information by the media.” For more information about the work, take a look at his page on Artdoxa [7].
Via Sweet Station [9]
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