The Law of Closure
Daniel Boyd
Perimeter Editions
English
Softcover
Edition of 1000
218 pages
300 x 200 mm
2015
ISBN 9780987353054
The majority of discussions surrounding young Sydney-based artist Daniel Boyd’s particular iteration of postcolonialist history painting, video and installation work have centered on the idea of the deletion of information and history, especially in relation Boyd’s Aboriginal and Vanuatuan heritage. But there is far more to his distinctive pointillist technique, in which he blackens much of painted surface to leave only a sea of “lenses” that reveal the information beneath, than a simple rumination on erasure. It is no sleight of hand that The Law of Closure, the first book tracing Boyd’s oeuvre, is titled after a Gestalt law. Boyd’s devices are not just about absence, but a kind of psychohistorical ellipsis. The dark matter that enshrouds the flashes of perceptual detail in his works is as much an element of the image as are the landscapes, portraits, reflections and refractions of light that lie amidst and beneath it.
(Source: https://www.thelibraryproject.ie/products/the-law-of-closure-daniel-boyd?_pos=1&_sid=a70565180&_ss=r)
About the Artist
Daniel Boyd is an indigenous Australian contemporary artist working in painting, sculpture and installation. He won the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Bulgari Art Award in 2014 and was a finalist for the 2022 Archibald Prize.
(Source: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/daniel-boyd/)
About the Publisher
Perimeter Editions is a distributor of specialist, independently published books and magazines on contemporary art, photography, architecture and design, supplying bookstores, galleries and other retail ventures in Australia and New Zealand. Founded in 2013 after the friendly acquisition of longstanding distributor Modern Journal, Perimeter Distribution is directly affiliated with bookstore and art space Perimeter Books and publishing imprint Perimeter Editions. In 2016, Perimeter became the official Australia/NZ representative for leading Amsterdam-based distributor Idea Books.
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