Material Meditation on Mending Al Mutanabbi Street 2012
Scott McCarney, USA
| Scott McCarney, Rochester,
NY, USA, April 2012 Material Meditation on Mending Al Mutanabbi Street consists of fifteen two-sided loose-leaf prints made from collages constructed from remnants of found books, rubbings from book bindings and photographs. The leaves are gathered into a tar paper folder, like scattered pages picked up in the street and slipped into a convenient sheath. The fragments, assembled with staples, tapes, and glue, attempt to speak to reconstruction as well as memory; of life, literature and culture suspended, disjointed and reassembled into some sense of a whole. Scott McCarney is an artist, designer, and educator based in Rochester, New York. His primary art practice has been in book form since 1980, combining an academic background in photography and design with a love for the corporeality of craft and philosophic possibilities of sculpture. His works are widely distributed and can be found in library collections at MoMA New York, V&A London and Yale University, among others. His work is shown near (Hallwalls, Buffalo; Everson Museum, Syracuse) and far (Sao Paulo, Brazil; Melbourne, Australia; Budapest, Hungary). He currently teaches in the School of Print Media at Rochester Institute of Technology. 8.5 x 11 inches; 15 loose-leaf pages, digitally printed, housed in tar paper folder http://scottmccarneyvisualbooks.com/ http://scottmccarney.blogspot.co.uk/ |