Water Jokes / Adriana Gallo

Identifier:FA.B122.2467

Dimensions:122 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm; 122 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm

Publication dates:2021

Publication dates:2021

Subjects: photobooks, spiral bindings, water tricks

Description:"collaboration with lucky risograph for the 2021 Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair. It contains a collection of photographs and found images with an accompanying text by the artist on Giochi d’acqua or “water games'' or “water jokes”, the term originally referring to the (often hidden) water automata of Italian Mannerist gardens. In combining water pranks, reproductions of Mannerist gardens, grottoes, FrogTok videos, water parks, and various aquatic automata, the book neither condemns nor celebrates the artificial but presents an incomplete collection of a very human compulsion to dominate and re-present water. Dimensions: ~5.5” x 7.25” - 122 Pages - Handbound hardcover spiral bound book, risograph printed on Sky Parchtone and Bright White Via Vellum. The book utilizes 5 distinct blue inks in various combinations"--Artist's website.