OKEANOS
OKEANOS
Allan Sekula
The catalogue coincided with the exhibition OKEANOS at TBA21 exploring the legacy of Allan Sekula (1951–2013). The exhibition was charting his investigation of the oceans, which make up most of our fragile hydrosphere. This publication expands on Sekula’s oeuvre and situate his ideas in the current political, social, and environmental discourse.
The design of both, the exhibition graphics and the catalogue cover, features corrugated rectangular shapes echoing Sekula’s recurring motif of cargo-containers, which has been the central subject he pursued over the last three decades of his life. The notion of flow and constant traffic is not only reflected in the alternation between textual and visual registers but also in the underlying image grid and the typography of the chapter pages.
See the identity
Year: 2017
Client: Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Co-publisher: Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona & Sternberg Press, Berlin
Catalogue / Reader, 17 × 24 cm, 280 pages
Photography: Raquel Diniz
OKEANOS
OKEANOS
Allan Sekula
The catalogue coincided with the exhibition OKEANOS at TBA21 exploring the legacy of Allan Sekula (1951–2013). The exhibition was charting his investigation of the oceans, which make up most of our fragile hydrosphere. This publication expands on Sekula’s oeuvre and situate his ideas in the current political, social, and environmental discourse.
The design of both, the exhibition graphics and the catalogue cover, features corrugated rectangular shapes echoing Sekula’s recurring motif of cargo-containers, which has been the central subject he pursued over the last three decades of his life. The notion of flow and constant traffic is not only reflected in the alternation between textual and visual registers but also in the underlying image grid and the typography of the chapter pages.
See the identity
Year: 2017
Client: Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Co-publisher: Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona & Sternberg Press, Berlin
Catalogue / Reader, 17 × 24 cm, 280 pages
Photography: Raquel Diniz