Paul Kuimet - Crystal Grid

[…] How to give structure to something that itself is lacking one? How to present something like that? This is a question of visibility and making visible. What are the means for making visible something that always remains invisible? More precisely: the thing that remains invisible in real life, but of which we can get a glimpse in Crystal Grid, is the structure of capitalism. But how to display something like that?

— Neeme Lopp

Paul Kuimet’s new book presents two series by the artist – Crystal Grid (2020–2023) and What It Is to Be What You Are Not (2022) – together with an essay by Neeme Lopp.

The works are connected by a set of geometric shapes from a grid that is based on the roof structure of the central transept of the Crystal Palace, erected for the Great Exhibition in London in 1851. While the photographic material of the Crystal Grid collages has been photographed in different botanical gardens around the world, the assemblages of the What It Is to Be What You Are Not series use images exposed to light-sensitive paper in the darkness of a photo lab together with leaves collected in the Tallinn Botanic Garden. Juxtaposed, the works raise different questions about the notions of place, form and representation in photography.

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A selection of various cover combinations. The edition was bound in five different green materials, each book uses three different colours: one on the front cover, one of the spine, and one on the back cover of the book.

Essay by Neeme Lopp
215 × 280 mm
88 pp
Offset printing
Hardcover (125 different cover combinations)
In English and Estonian
Graphic design: Indrek Sirkel
Colour correction: Marje Eelma
Reproductions: Stanislav Stepaško
Translation: Keiu Krikmann (est–eng)
Copy editing: Anti Saar (est), Bryne McLaughlin (eng)
Paper: Multi Art Gloss 150g, Munken Polar Rough 120g, Caribic Dark Green 170g
Typefaces: Century Expanded, Monotype Grotesque
Printed by Tallinn Book Printers
Supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia
Edition of 400
Published by Lugemik
ISBN 978-9916-9817-7-1
2023

Essay by Neeme Lopp
215 × 280 mm
88 pp
Offset printing
Hardcover (125 different cover combinations)
In English and Estonian
Graphic design: Indrek Sirkel
Colour correction: Marje Eelma
Reproductions: Stanislav Stepaško
Translation: Keiu Krikmann (est–eng)
Copy editing: Anti Saar (est), Bryne McLaughlin (eng)
Paper: Multi Art Gloss 150g, Munken Polar Rough 120g, Caribic Dark Green 170g
Typefaces: Century Expanded, Monotype Grotesque
Printed by Tallinn Book Printers
Supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia
Edition of 400
Published by Lugemik
ISBN 978-9916-9817-7-1
2023

Essay by Neeme Lopp 215 × 280 mm 88 pp Offset printing Hardcover (125 different cover combinations) In English and Estonian Graphic design: Indrek Sirkel Colour correction: Marje Eelma Reproductions: Stanislav Stepaško Translation: Keiu Krikmann (est–eng) Copy editing: Anti Saar (est), Bryne McLaughlin (eng)
Paper: Multi Art Gloss 150g, Munken Polar Rough 120g, Caribic Dark Green 170g Typefaces: Century Expanded, Monotype Grotesque Printed by Tallinn Book Printers Supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia Edition of 400 Published by Lugemik ISBN 978-9916-9817-7-1 2023

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