Keith Edmier - Mother Mold Limited Edition #6/20, Signed (2017)
Keith Edmier - Mother Mold Limited Edition #6/20, Signed (2017)
New Condition. Shrink wrapped.
Keith Edmier's Mother Mold, brings together the 50 unique life-cast portraits of the artist’s work, "Imagines" - inspired by ancient Roman life-casts of the same name. Stemming from his years in Hollywood working as a special effects make-up artist, Edmier’s cast portraits connect in intimate ways: they portray the artist’s family, friends, heroes, and influences. The connection to Hollywood turns the permanence and memorial of the life mask into a starting point for the transformation to come. Michael Jackson--becomes a teenage werewolf, Jeff Goldblum-- The Fly, David Bowie--a New Wave vampire, and Matthew Barney--a well-groomed Satyr. As in all of Edmier’s work, one can find familiar identities and structures reshaped and transformed.
Each life-cast portrait is presented as a postcard; the reverse of which, written in Edmier’s own hand, provides interesting details about the individual casts. The set of postcards is presented in a hard-back ‘stone’ box-envelop, with white debossed text. Keith Edmier: Mother Mold was published on the occasion of Edmier’s sixth solo show at Petzel, September 6th-November 4th, 2017.
The limited special edition is signed and numbered by the artist with a custom seal and includes a card of the 50th and final lifecast self-portrait that Edmier produced on the exact minute of his 50th birthday on the day of the exhibition opening. Special editions come in a set of 2 books: one first edition copy & one sealed and signed by the artist with the final card. Edition of 20.
Softcover
8 x 6 inches
50 pages, boxed postcards
Published by Petzel Gallery (2017)
Keith Edmier - Mother Mold Limited Edition #6/20, Signed (2017)
New Condition. Shrink wrapped.
Keith Edmier's Mother Mold, brings together the 50 unique life-cast portraits of the artist’s work, "Imagines" - inspired by ancient Roman life-casts of the same name. Stemming from his years in Hollywood working as a special effects make-up artist, Edmier’s cast portraits connect in intimate ways: they portray the artist’s family, friends, heroes, and influences. The connection to Hollywood turns the permanence and memorial of the life mask into a starting point for the transformation to come. Michael Jackson--becomes a teenage werewolf, Jeff Goldblum-- The Fly, David Bowie--a New Wave vampire, and Matthew Barney--a well-groomed Satyr. As in all of Edmier’s work, one can find familiar identities and structures reshaped and transformed.
Each life-cast portrait is presented as a postcard; the reverse of which, written in Edmier’s own hand, provides interesting details about the individual casts. The set of postcards is presented in a hard-back ‘stone’ box-envelop, with white debossed text. Keith Edmier: Mother Mold was published on the occasion of Edmier’s sixth solo show at Petzel, September 6th-November 4th, 2017.
The limited special edition is signed and numbered by the artist with a custom seal and includes a card of the 50th and final lifecast self-portrait that Edmier produced on the exact minute of his 50th birthday on the day of the exhibition opening. Special editions come in a set of 2 books: one first edition copy & one sealed and signed by the artist with the final card. Edition of 20.
Softcover
8 x 6 inches
50 pages, boxed postcards
Published by Petzel Gallery (2017)
Keith Edmier - Mother Mold Limited Edition #6/20, Signed (2017)
New Condition. Shrink wrapped.
Keith Edmier's Mother Mold, brings together the 50 unique life-cast portraits of the artist’s work, "Imagines" - inspired by ancient Roman life-casts of the same name. Stemming from his years in Hollywood working as a special effects make-up artist, Edmier’s cast portraits connect in intimate ways: they portray the artist’s family, friends, heroes, and influences. The connection to Hollywood turns the permanence and memorial of the life mask into a starting point for the transformation to come. Michael Jackson--becomes a teenage werewolf, Jeff Goldblum-- The Fly, David Bowie--a New Wave vampire, and Matthew Barney--a well-groomed Satyr. As in all of Edmier’s work, one can find familiar identities and structures reshaped and transformed.
Each life-cast portrait is presented as a postcard; the reverse of which, written in Edmier’s own hand, provides interesting details about the individual casts. The set of postcards is presented in a hard-back ‘stone’ box-envelop, with white debossed text. Keith Edmier: Mother Mold was published on the occasion of Edmier’s sixth solo show at Petzel, September 6th-November 4th, 2017.
The limited special edition is signed and numbered by the artist with a custom seal and includes a card of the 50th and final lifecast self-portrait that Edmier produced on the exact minute of his 50th birthday on the day of the exhibition opening. Special editions come in a set of 2 books: one first edition copy & one sealed and signed by the artist with the final card. Edition of 20.
Softcover
8 x 6 inches
50 pages, boxed postcards
Published by Petzel Gallery (2017)
