| Magazine by Mike Nelson is an
intricate reconfiguration of a number of his acclaimed installations. Nelson
has selected, edited and ordered a succession of detailed images encouraging
the reader to move through different passages and states whilst negotiating
recyclings of six of his previous shows. The book has no end point, no definitive
reading but rather is a visual non-linear narrative which suggests an ‘Interzone’
- demonstrating a parallel experience which questions the purpose of Nelson’s
constructed spaces and examines what is really going on behind the scenes.
Magazine can be experienced both as a memento and as a reading of
Nelson’s constructed spaces and represents a logical progression and
use of the book form by the artist. We are invited to lose ourselves in
a multiplicity of meaning as we continue reading - rediscovering, reinventing
and redefining.
Opus 3 Magazine is published in an edition
of 2,000, 336 pages, b&w and colour images with softback, 171 x 242
mm, ISBN 1 870699 62 9. Price £25.00.
It is co-published with Matt’s Gallery and designed by CHK Design.
Magazine is part of Book
Works Opus Projects - a new series of collaborations between artists
and co-publishers, funded by the Arts Council’s Publishing and Recording
Fund.
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