Philippe Parreno: Fireflies
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Author: Philippe Parreno
A collection of intricate drawings by French artist Philippe Parreno illustrating the life cycle of fireflies.Fireflies presents a series of pen and ink drawings by the seminal French artist Philippe Parreno, best known for his film and installation work and for radically transforming the contemporary exhibition experience.Parreno has frequently returned to the motif of the firefly, since reading ‘L’articolo delle Lucciole’ (‘The Article of the Fireflies’) by Pier Paolo Pasolini, published in 1975. In 2011 he began drawing fireflies and sent the resulting works as gifts to friends and collaborators across the globe. All 283 drawings are collected here for the first time, alongside an interview with Parreno by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries, London, and an essay by philosopher Vinciane Despret on time and mortality. Parreno’s Fireflies are among the most intimate and personal works from his widely celebrated practice.
ISBN 9781912122110. HENI Publishing. pb. 312 pages. 281 ills. 28 x 21.4 cm.
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A collection of intricate drawings by French artist Philippe Parreno illustrating the life cycle of fireflies.Fireflies presents a series of pen and ink drawings by the seminal French artist Philippe Parreno, best known for his film and installation work and for radically transforming the contemporary exhibition experience.Parreno has frequently returned to the motif of the firefly, since reading ‘L’articolo delle Lucciole’ (‘The Article of the Fireflies’) by Pier Paolo Pasolini, published in 1975. In 2011 he began drawing fireflies and sent the resulting works as gifts to friends and collaborators across the globe. All 283 drawings are collected here for the first time, alongside an interview with Parreno by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries, London, and an essay by philosopher Vinciane Despret on time and mortality. Parreno’s Fireflies are among the most intimate and personal works from his widely celebrated practice.
ISBN 9781912122110. HENI Publishing. pb. 312 pages. 281 ills. 28 x 21.4 cm.
available