Twentysix Gasoline Stations
  • artists' book
  • wrappers with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • color
  • 18 x 14 cm.
  • [32] pp.
  • edition size 600
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 9780894390449

Twentysix Gasoline Stations

Michalis Pichler

Twentysix Gasoline Stations

description

Artists' book / parody of Edward Ruscha's classic artists' book "Twentysix Gasoline Stations." "Pichler's version offers a more modern update, examining twenty-six German gas stations all owned by the same company and all displaying the same signage and architectural elements. At first glance, all twenty-six images appear to depict the same pristine and brightly-colored generic structure. Only upon further examination, aided by Pichler's captions, does the reader get the full extent of the joke, which is punctuated by the book's final image: a disembodied hand holding an excerpt from a 1969 interview with Ruscha in which he explains 'the eccentric stations were the first ones I threw out.'" -- publisher's statement.

references

"Various Small Books : Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha" by Jeff Brouws, Wendy Burton, Hermann Zschiegner, Phil Taylor, Mark Rawlinson. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2013, pp. 188 - 189.

related objects

Twentysix Gasoline Stations [First Edition]
Twentysix Gasoline Stations [Second Edition]
Twentysix Gasoline Stations [Third Edition]
New York / Berlin, NY / Germany: Printed Matter / Greatest Hits,
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