Dania Beach, FL: Claire Jeanine Satin, 1996. A unique artists' book from Claire Jeanine Satin, a well known book artist, sculptor and designer of public art installations. Satin's work has been extensively exhibited and collected in the United States and in Europe, including at The Library of Congress, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Getty (CA), MOMA, The Victoria and Albert Museum, and the National Institute of Design (India). She has created more than 250 bookworks to date. She is known especially for her conceptual works in uenced by the ideas of composer/visual artist John Cage, and the conversion of ordinary industrial materials into environmental constructions and book works of layered transparent mass. This work from Claire beautifully exemplifies this conceptual approach to creating her books. The title of the book - Tetrahedron - describes a solid having four plane triangular faces - a triangular pyramid. The shape is associated with fire and perpetuates balance and stability [Wikipedia]. The book is a powder coated aluminum black screen with gold and silver ink/handwritten script (reassembled text from the book “M” by John Cage). Includes fine wire; brass filings from grinding keys Signed by the artist inside a miniature gold book attached to the complex wire structure emerging from the "spine" of the book. In fine condition. Measures 7 x 12 x 1.5 inches. Fine.

Item #35084

Price: $3,000.00