Simon Starling

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SIMON STARLING: UNDER LIME
Text by Angela Rosenberg, Julian Heynen, Dominic Eichler.
WALTHER KöNIG
ISBN: 9783865605979 | US $46.00
Pub Date: 8/31/2009
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SIMON STARLING: THE NANJING PARTICLES
Text by Susan Cross, Anthony W. Lee.
MASS MOCA
ISBN: 9780976427674 | US $32.00
Pub Date: 11/30/2009
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SIMON STARLING: CUTTINGS
Edited by Philipp Kaiser. Essays by Daniel Kurjakovic and Reid Shier.
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9783775716741 | US $48.00
Pub Date: 2/1/2006
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Simon Starling

Simon Starling: Black Drop

Ciné-Roman

Text by Mike Davies, Simon Starling.
Published by Humboldt Books

Black Drop documents a film project by London-based artist Simon Starling (born 1967) on the relationship between the transit of Venus and the history of cinema. The project is based on Starling’s own recording of the 2012 transit of Venus, filmed from Tahiti and Honolulu.

Simon Starling: Under Lime

Text by Angela Rosenberg, Julian Heynen, Dominic Eichler.
Published by Walther König

In his provocative installation works, UK conceptualist Simon Starling tells stories about natural and cultural processes of transformation. "He displaces, inverts, reserves and remakes existing things with self-conscious, ironic amateurishness. He is a tinkerer with objects of design and bits of history, an alchemist of arcana and late modernism," according Michael Kimmelman of The New York Times. This volume presents three projects by Starling: in "Kakteenhaus," (2002), an Andalusian cactus is transplanted to Berlin's winter, where a converted automotive engine ensures its survival; "Plant Room" (2008) creates a mud-brick chamber for sensitive historical photographs; and for "Under Lime" (2009), Starling cut a lime branch from the nearby "Unter den Linden" boulevard and grafted it beneath the Kunsthalle's rafters.

Simon Starling: The Nanjing Particles

Text by Susan Cross, Anthony W. Lee.
Published by MASS MoCA

2005 Turner Prize winner Simon Starling is known for his investigations into the hidden lives of objects and images, and his catalogues are an integral part of his production. The Nanjing Particles, published for an exhibition at MASS MoCA, is a unique object that takes as its departure a historical stereograph of Chinese laborers brought to Massachusetts in 1870 to break a strike. Starling literally mined the photographs for their history, extracting from their emulsion two silver particles. Enlarged one million times, the microscopic grains were translated into stainless steel sculptures fabricated by workers in Nanjing. Taking viewers through the installation and the work's fabrication process, the book reiterates the visual and conceptual play of the exhibition. The cover, which features die-cut peepholes, mimics the form of a structure in the exhibition. Readers can use the book itself as a low-tech stereoscope to view the photographs--printed on the inside covers--as a single three-dimensional image.

Simon Starling: Cuttings

Edited by Philipp Kaiser. Essays by Daniel Kurjakovic and Reid Shier.
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers

Simon Starling is part of a young generation of conceptual artists whose work is more concerned with narrative than their predecessors' has been. Pieces like Inverted Retrograde Theme, USA (House for a Songbird), which shrinks scale models of modular concrete homes into birdhouses on slim wood supports, investigate modernistic design objects, materials and concepts that exemplify the prevailing ideologies and production factors of specific regions, cultures, and generations. By breaking down his source material and transforming it, Starling writes a new chapter in its history while raising questions about complex cultural and aesthetic phenomena of our time. Cuttings is an unprecedented overview of his work, and is literally cut away itself, with pages trimmed into different lengths in different sections to delineate coverage of 2005 projects, including those for a first survey exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel; previous works listed from A to Z; and several texts, including two essays and an interview.