Pre-orders accepted via this blog
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: $50.00, 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 is September 15 at the MoMA PS1 Art Book Fair. I am accepting pre-orders via this blog.
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Introduction
Welcome to the world of Doctor Seek And Mister Hide, where images born in reality
are transformed into surrealistic fantasies.
The terrestrial origins are based in Gilles Berquet’s glowing photographs of the nude female figure. His prints, on high quality matte paper, become the ground beneath Mirka Lugosi’s celestial imaginings. With pencil and gouache, her beautifully detailed artwork is drawn or painted on the surface of each photograph.
Mirka interacts with the figures and space in Gilles' images in surprising ways, ranging from playfully colorful to mysteriously dark. Viewed individually, their vision is sublime, filled with erotic sensibilities. When brought together in this collaboration, the results are masterful.
Alter egos, hidden in the pages and fold-outs of Doctor Seek And Mister Hide, 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