Canon

Canon, a photographic documentation of historical and contemporary coffee-table books about the African continent, creates the frame for Wohnseifer’s most recent artist book. Using the principles of object photography, the book-covers and pages work as a kind of contextual parenthesis for a sculpture series. Composed of seven shelf-like objects, each “shelf” is in turn made out of nine elements which correspond in form, color and material exactly to those used by Gerrit Rietveld for his “Berliner Stuhl”.