My review of
Misha de Ridder's book
Abendsonne is now available online at
Photoeye.
The horizon [is] a kind of temporal hinge between immediate apprehension and a constant postponement of closure...The very fact of the horizon is what is immutable; it is an infinite dividing line between infinite entities, a place toward which the mind journeys and yet a place that appears as a continuous, productive, deferral of place.
-Susan Stewart, "What Thought Is Like" from The Open Studio Essays on Art and Aesthetics
Rooted in 19th century Romantic notions of the sublime, Misha De Ridder's images are subtle and beautiful, but also utterly contemporary. Abendsonne is a narrowly focused book that contains a mere eight large images (seven inside and one on the cover) printed on a heavy card stock, but is full of nuance and visual sophistication. The title, translated from German, means "setting sun" or "evening sun," but more specifically refers to a phenomenon in northern Europe during late autumn and early spring where the sun barely rises in the sky. In the mountainous Swiss towns where these images were made, the sun hovers briefly above the peaks before sinking back and shrouding the landscape in darkness - the cool otherworldly light, temporally transforming the landscape and shifting our perception.
Read the rest
here. Lay Flat has also put out another book by de Ridder,
DUNE, where you can get
here.
De Ridder is also doing an
artist's talk/book signing/screening at
Printed Matter this Saturday, Oct. 25th, for
DUNE. For more info about this event go
here. I wish I could make it, but I will be out of town.
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