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Andrew Dadson

Visible Heavens

by (artist) Andrew Dadson

edited by Kathy Slade

Publisher
Emily Carr University Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2008
Category
General, Conceptual
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9783905829686
    Publish Date
    Jan 2008
    List Price
    $47.50

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Description

Visible Heavens from 1850—2008 is an artist book based on a found star map from 1850. The "original" map was photocopied and each subsequent copy was then re-photocopied. The artist likens the slow degradation of the image to the cultural shift within our interpretation of the stars (constellation charts were called maps of the heavens but after 1975 they became known as maps of the sky) and each photocopy represents a year in the decline from "heaven" to "earth". From start to finish the map changes from an "accurate" vision of the stars above to an abstracted blackness depicting the new "heaven" in the year 2008.

Andrew Dadson is an emerging Vancouver-based artist. He recently had a solo exhibition at the Charles H. Scott Gallery and has been included in group exhibitions in the US, China and Europe.

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