Herbarium of unknown

I got this herbarium consisting of grass specimens as a present. The maker of it is unknown. The sheet are labeled with name of specimen, date and place of finding in a beautiful old handwriting. The grasses have left direct prints on the opposite pages.  

Herbarium At Home is a volunteer-based project that aims to catalogue and make available the wealth of data represented by the historical herbarium collections held by universities and museums in Great Britain. Everyone can join and help label (and in return look at the most amazing examples for free).

Raphael Hefti

 Installation view, Fluxia, Milano 

Raphael Hefti, Lycopodium, 2011, Photograms on photographic color paper using the gently burning spores of the mossplant Lycopdium, dimensions 100 x 160 cm, unique copies  


"Raphael Hefti is an alchimist in his own right, he forms steel bars fragile as glas, lightens up whole mountain valleys or grows mushrooms on buckets in the exhibition space. His faszination and in- terest in the aesthetic potential of chemical processes and technical procedures is also the starting point for his work on view at Kunsthalle. In memory to Phlogiston (2010/11) and Lycopodiumprints (2010/11) are large format black and white and color photograms which have been exposed with the spores of the Lycopodium plant. The fine pored powder, which is known as medicine in Homeopa- thie and because of his high inflammability was called „witch craft xxx“ in the Middle Age , is used by Hefti as the light source of his images. The composition is foremost an accidental one – similar to the methods used in Drip or Action paintings in American Expressionism or Andy Warhols re- ference to these (Piss Paintings, 1977-78) – and the image composition is based on the immediacy of the material’s touch on the image carrier, every trace are to be visible. On the black and white photograms the light leaves surprisingly fine structures and layers, the color prints depict a spectre of lucid colors with unexpected depth." Kunsthalle Basel, 2011

Veronika Spierenburg - From right to left

Veronika Spierenburg, From right to left, site-specific action, National Library Helsinki,  blu-ray video, 16 min, 2009

See more of Veronika's work here.

gaël odilon paccard

work by gaël odilon paccard. see more here.

[all gaël odilon paccard. nearest neighbour. 2007.]

Artist contribution: Eva - Fiore Kovacovksy

339 gräser

Artist book
Unique inkjet photocopies of pressed plant specimens
Paper bound in linen 
21 x 30 x 1 cm 
2010

www.kovacovsky.com

virginie rebetez

virginie rebetez's 'visiting jane' project. "a visit to crime scenes where people died 10, or sometimes even 25 years ago, and who have not yet been identified. the jane doe and john doe of los angeles county. through research in the archives of the los angeles police department/cold case unit, i found information about the locations and belongings of the deceased. it enabled me to visit these locations, create an imaginary map and connect the dots to set up a constellation." see more here.

[all virginie rebetez. from the series visiting jane. 2009.]

gaël odilon paccard

work by gaël odilon paccard. see more here.

[all gaël odilon paccard. from the series bits and pieces. 2009.]

veronika spierenburg

work by veronika spierenburg made from newspaper photos. see more here.

[all veronika spierenburg. from the series not being serious. 2009.]

olaf breuning

work by olaf breuning. see more here.

[all olaf breuning. 2009. top to bottom: spray. color woman. color drip 2.]

beni bischof

work by beni bischof. see more here.

[all beni bischof. bricked castles. 2008.]

mona vatamanu + florin tudor

work by mona vatamanu + florin tudor. see more here.

[all mona vatamanu + florin tudor. top to bottom: living units. 2003. capitalul / das kapital. 2007. praful / the dust. 2006.]

taiyo onorato + nico krebs

taiyo onorato + nico krebs have just published a new book. more here.

[all taiyo onorato + nico krebs. from the book the great unreal. published by edition patrick frey. 2009.]

veronika spierenburg

work by veronika spierenburg. see more here.

[all veronika spierenburg. from the series cropping and walking. 2007.]

emanuel rossetti

work by emanuel rossetti. see more here.

[all emanuel rossetti. top to bottom: chopped & screwed (collaboration with mathis altman). untitled. chopped & screwed (collaboration with mathis altman).]

thomas julier

work by thomas julier. see more here.

[all thomas julier. 2008. top to bottom: gadient on a black background photographed from a screen, no. 1. architectural detail (ditych). structured plane sphere photographed from a screen, no. 1.]

olaf breuning

work by olaf breuning. see more here.

[all olaf breuning. from the series color studies.]

ulrich görlich

work by ulrich görlich. see more here.

[all ulrich görlich. 2001. top to bottom: nordlicht. seestück. kreisel.]