Bessa, Antonio Sergio
Darrel Ellis: Regeneration
- ISBN 13:
- 9788857246871
- author:
- Bessa, Antonio Sergio
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- Skira
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2023
- Pages:
- 224
- Dimensions:
- 26.7 x 23.1 x 2.3 centimetres (1
- Genre:
- Arts & Photography, Art, Individual Artist,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Darrel Ellis Regeneration offers a comprehensive survey of the artist's practice, exploring his innovative studio techniques and their impact on contemporary art. Born in 1958, Ellis created a diverse body of work that merged painting, printmaking, photography, and drawing before his untimely death in 1992. Ellis's unique approach involved projecting photographic negatives onto a sculpted surface, masking out areas, and re-photographing them to capture the fleeting effects of memory and experience. This process generated a stream of surrogates that transformed serial and appropriation practices into something new, beautiful, and heartfelt. The book includes essays by curators and contributions from scholars Makeda Djata Best, Allen Frame, Scott Homolka, Linda Owen, and Kyle Croft, providing a detailed understanding of Ellis's practice and its significance in the art world.