Sketches For A Mechanical Sunrise
Espen Dietrichson
Torpedo Press
Softcover
122 pages
170 x 220 mm
2009
ISBN 9788299736565
Sketches For A Mechanical Sunrise is the first major presentation of Espen Dietrichson’s work and reveals a production with an unique sense for perfection and dramatic presence. With a number of significant solo exhibitions and major projects to his credit, Espen Dietrichson has in an impressively short time invented a simple, yet complex language of his own. Sketches For A Mechanical Sunrise is also the title of Dietrichson’s series of calculative drawings which both seem to be both inspired the necessity of a maverick logic and its self-destructive character. This methodological sobriety and humour also applies to his monumental sculptures and an engineer-like fascination with the instrumental (with an equal disinterest in their social appliance).
Interview with Espen Dietrichson by Power Ekroth and essays by Helga-Marie Nordby and Eivind Slettemeås. The publication is the first in a series of monographs on contemporary artists to be published by Torpedo Press.
About the Artist
Espen Dietrichson was born in 1976, in Stavanger, Norway. He is represented by Gallery Haaken, Oslo
About the Publisher
Torpedo Press was founded in 2005, as a non-profit Bookshop and Publisher devoted to the promotion and production of artists’ publications, art theory and critical readers. Torpedo organize discursive activities, exhibitions and events related to the process of publishing. Torpedo is run by Elin Maria Olaussen, Karen Christine Tandberg and Kim Svensson.
