New artist monographs available now

At the end of last year glass artist Yorgos Papadopoulos celebrated 15 years of professional practice. In itself it is a remarkable achievement to survive as a full time self employed artist for such a long period of time. It is even more so considering the fact that he has put himself outside the confinement of the boxes that were created by the critics of the fine arts. His unique techniques consist of breaking, embellishing and laminating industrial sheets of glass and turning them into captivating glass paintings, enigmatic pendants or sculptural installations. A truly polymorphous art.

Polymorphous is therefore the title of a book that was published recently. In 116 full colour photographs and 8 essays written by Emmanuel Cooper, Vicky Spanovangelis and Arjen De Neve, the book gives invaluable insight in the story behind the artist and his art.

The second book is called Vicarious and serves both as a retrospective of 15 years of professional practice in the field of site-specific art and as a description of the process of architectural design integrated art making. In several case studies it describes and illustrates the acquisition of the projects, the development of ideas and design with sketches and scale models, the actual making and the installation of the artworks.

You can read them online in Bibliography.