Black Medick
by Paul Morrison , Edited by Kurt Vanbelleghem.
Imschoot, Ghent 2004 , 61 pages, 21 x 16 cm, Limited edition of 1000 copies. Full-bleed color and black-and-white images. ISBN 9077362134
euro 60,00 n/a
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Publisher Imschoot uitgevers describes Paul Morrison’s Black Medick as “A bible of natural phenomena and botanical inspiration.” Morrison’s book is bound in leatherette with pages colored about the edges; as is the case with a few of Imschoot’s editions, Black Medick directly mimics the physical form of a Bible – bookmark and all. However, this is a wordless book that extols the endless beauty and variety of something as simple as a common garden weed. Black Medick confronts its subject not at its botanical root, but at its representational root: the photographic pixel. The pixel thus becomes a tense limit of expression, communication, and understanding – and a back lot gone to seed or a reedy shoreline are the scenes of the miracles it depicts.
With every page filled with Paul Morrison’s appropriated landscapes and enlarged floral studies, this small and glossy book is visually interesting yet curious in the strange juxtapositions of colour and black & white images. A British painter known for his conceptual landscapes, Black Medick is like a picture scrapbook for this interesting artist.
29/01/21
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