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- Used
Seller: Shelf Control, Bainbridge Island, WA, U.S.A.Shelf Control
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Condition: Used - Very good
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Condition: Very Good. Softcover exhibition catalog. Pictorial purple wrappers with surface rubbing, light scratches and minor edge and corner wear. Binding secure; pages unmarked. Illustrated with color reproductions of the artworks, accompanying descriptions, an introduction, exhibition checklist and artist biographies and exhibition histories. Listing photos show the exact copy included in this sale. Contemporary art exhibition catalog documenting an imaginary sultan’s collection of extraordinary objects, created by Seattle artists Nancy Mee and Dennis Evans for their 2011 exhibition at Friesen Gallery in Ketchum, Idaho. Glass sculpture, mixed media assemblage and encaustic panels form a fictional library of wonders, combining scientific imagery, mythology, sacred geometry and metaphysical speculation. The exhibition’s premise sends explorers around the world to acquire fabulous, previously unseen objects for the sultan’s empty library. The artworks appeared with shipping crates, elaborate labels, freight stamps and invented bills of lading. Accompanying descriptions supply imagined origins and functions, giving the collection the character of a cabinet of curiosities populated with impossible instruments and symbolic artifacts. Prima Luce contains, within the fiction, the first light after the Big Bang, captured and sealed in a canister. Its richly textured panel combines equations, diagrams, lettering and cosmic imagery. Occularium Mysterium offers a device for looking into the human soul through lenses engraved with enigmatic symbols. Horologium Oscillatorium proposes an extraordinary instrument for calculating time across religious calendars and the cycles of the sun and moon. A cosmographic instrument records the celestial canopy, while Aurea Sectio connects the golden section with Luca Pacioli, mathematical proportion, nature and sacred geometry. Four monumental glass and metal boundary markers represent the cardinal directions through the tortoise, phoenix, white tiger and dragon. Other sculptures include the Omphalos Stone, associated with the navel of the world and the Tree of Life; The Ouroboros: Essential Forms; Bi Cong; and Double Headed Serpent. Luminous glass forms and dark metal supports contrast with the layered surfaces, written passages and diagrammatic imagery of the encaustic works. A record of Pacific Northwest contemporary art joining studio glass, sculptural assemblage and narrative installation. Mee’s background in printmaking and experimental glass complements Evans’s work across ceramics, performance, mixed media and scientifically inspired art. The catalog documents their shared exhibition concept through individual objects whose materials, symbols and fanciful histories connect art with systems of knowledge, collecting and wonder.…
Seller Inventory # W_401
Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Sultan’s Library
- Author
- Mee, Nancy; Evans, Dennis
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- Very good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- Item weight
- 0.75 pounds
- Dimensions
- 8.5 inches width by 11 inches height by 0.25 inches depth
- Seller catalogs
- Art Books, Arts & Photography Books, Exhibition Catalogs, Pacific Northwest, Painting, Sculpture
Shelf Control
Bainbridge Island, WA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since August 19, 2026
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