Mario Sorrenti: Draw Blood for Proof Hardcover Book

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This is a phenomenally gorgeous book, all you would expect when an artist works with Steidl.
Great story on how … more This is a phenomenally gorgeous book, all you would expect when an artist works with Steidl.
Great story on how this book came together from an exhibition from the walls of the artists studio...
It is hard to find and amazing to own, if you are an art book lover, this is a must have.



Initially conceived as a personal project on the walls of Sorrenti’s New York loft, the material in Draw Blood for Proof eventually found its way onto gallery walls as a large-scale installation piece in 2004. Papering the site from floor to ceiling with layers of collected snapshots, contact sheets, prints, Polaroids and ephemera drawn from over fifteen years of work, Sorrenti’s collection was a unique look into the artist’s diaristic creative process, going beyond ideas of public and private production.

Re-photographed as a series of 8x10 Polaroids and reconstituted here, Sorrenti’s montage finds yet another incarnation in book form. Here the images are both documentation and personal exploration, and the layout repositions Sorrenti’s photographs in a series faithful to their placement on the walls of the gallery. This gives the viewer a sense of the raw impact of the original installation but also creates new visual relationships between images as they move across spreads, redefining themselves and one another on the pages. Images obscured in one layout may appear fully and with renewed force on the next. The result is a free-associative experience like memory or dreams, rooted in Sorrenti’s methods but drawing on his cache of personal associations, and the act of perception becomes part of the work..
11.81 x 1.77 x 18.5 inches
Text by Jim Lewis

336 pages

Hardback
]This book is in excellent condition besides a lower corner ding that affects the bottom of some of the pages, please see photos. Was done in shipping unfortunately and the book was so hard to find , it has been well cared for. less