Title of publication: Transmutations
Name of artist: Johan Rosenmunthe
Design: Rasmus Michaëlis & Johan Rosenmunthe
Editor: Johan Rosenmunthe
Press: Vandret publications
Publication date: 2011
Place of publication: Copenhagen, Denmark
Edition size: 100, signed & numbered
Format: Unbound, in a wooden box Size: 22,3 x 28,4 cm
Number of pages: 64 sheets
Type of printing: Digital offset
Type of paper: MultiDesign 240g
Name of printer: Eurographic
Number of pictures: 59 colour & b/w
Price: $100
Description of book: ‘Transmutations’ is a look at the dialectical relationship between culture and nature. As a study of the bestial connotations of human gestures and poses, it questions how much originates from the animal in us. The project includes photographs of stuffed animals photographed at the Museum of Natural History in New York. Their postures are carefully orchestrated by humans. Rosenmunthe attempts to create a connection between the visible world and the mental imagination, between the concrete and the imaginary. The book encourages people to use the physical images of animals and humans to understand their internal relation between these two points of transmutations. Rosenmunthes pictures can be seen as visual transmutations – bastards of light and interference. They are jumps in style and expression, and evidence of a personal investigation.
The best thing about self-publishing: The sense of accomplishment
Artist website: www.rosenmunthe.com
Press website: www.lodretogfriends.com
Book Soundtrack: Beach House: Zebra
