Landscapes Carved Out of Books by Guy Laramee
“So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes”, says interdisciplinary artist Guy Laramee
who, in the course of his 30 years of practice, found his way through
such varied and numerous disciplines as : stage writing, stage
directing, contemporary music writing, musical instrument design and
building, singing, video, scenography, sculpture, installation, painting
and literature. Laramee uses books that are slowly falling apart, such
as old encyclopedias and dictionaries to create dramatic landscapes.
In the artist’s own words:
Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. They erode a bit more and they become hills. Then they flatten and become fields where apparently nothing is happening. Piles of obsolete encyclopedias return to that which does not need to say anything, that which simply IS. Fogs and clouds erase everything we know, everything we think we are.
