112 pages, 30 x 21 cm, ota bind, softcover with poster dust jacket
Perimeter Editions 015
ISBN: 978-0-9943883-3-9
AU $55 | $250
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Bartolomeo Celestino
Surface Phenomena
Bartolomeo Celestino has been returning to a particular section of Sydney’s coastal fringe – atop an otherwise unremarkable set of cliffs in the eastern suburb of Bronte – day after day, year after year, to undertake the protracted task of setting up his large-format camera and training his lens downward to the fierce waters below.In the images that populate his debut book Surface Phenomena, the horizon, the land or any other contextual details are absent; the ocean is everything and everywhere. The mass of turbulence and white water and the deft flashes of calm that these photographs describe occupy a fundamentally different formal and conceptual space to the iconography of the Australian coast. His mode of practice might just as proficiently be read through the late Modernist prism of seriality. Without the luxury of context – without foreground and horizon – Celestino’s images become loaded with formal, allegorical and interpretive potential. We can only begin to approach an understanding of the nature of our chosen subject through a process of assiduous repetition.
Perimeter Editions 015
Edition of 500
ISBN: 978-0-9943883-3-9
Publication date: May 2016
Published by Perimeter Editions
Melbourne, Australia
Editors: Narelle Brewer, Justine Ellis, Dan Rule
Text: Dan Rule
Design: Narelle Brewer
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Special Edition
Perimeter Editions and the artist are producing a special edition
of 30 copies amongst a wider print run of 500 copies. The special edition is signed by the artist and includes a signed and editioned 20 x 30-inch print of a key image that appears in the Surface Phenomena book.AU $250
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