BOOK:Edgar Leciejewski “Tones”, Fogo Island Arts and Sternberg Press
A residency-based contemporary art venue, Fogo Island Arts (FIA) provides support for artistic exploration and production for artists, filmmakers, writers, musicians, curators, designers, and thinkers from around the world. Located off the coast of Newfoundland in Canada, Fogo Island Arts was established in 2008. Artists-in-residence come to the island to do research and selected artists are invited to present their work in exhibitions at the Fogo Island Gallery, which is located in the Fogo Island Inn. Exhibitions are accompanied by publications produced in collaboration with international imprints. The catalogue “Edgar Leciejewski: Tones” is the 6th volume in FIA’s publication series accompanies Edgar Leciejewski’s solo exhibition “Tones” (14/5-12/12/16) at the Fogo Island Gallery. The publication includes texts by Bill Arning and Zoë Gray, a conversation between Edgar Leciejewski and Nicolaus Schafhausen, and is lavishly illustrated with original colour photography and installation views. Created by during his six-month residency with Fogo Island Arts, the works in “Tones” include a massive grid of 169 photographs of Fogo Island sunsets, photographic collages, and a large-scale composite image of a bookcase. Also featured are a series of precarious sculptures composed of broken crockery, glass and other debris tossed into the sea over the 200 years of island settlement, and collected by the artist along the seashore. At play within these works are attempts to reconcile seemingly opposing forces or phenomena, to incorporate the infinite within the specific, or to archive, stretch and condense our experience of time.-Dimitris Lempesis
