2001
Pictorial boards, sewn bound, text with color plates and 22 color illustrations & drawings, including 2 folding plates, 60 pp. First edition. Published by Walter König, Cologne.
10 1/2h x 7w in (26.67h x 17.78w cm)
$ 3,500
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2001
Pictorial boards, sewn bound, text with color plates and 22 color illustrations & drawings, including 2 folding plates, 60 pp. First edition. Published by Walter König, Cologne.
10 1/2h x 7w in (26.67h x 17.78w cm)
$ 3,500
Inquire
Text by Tex Rubinowitz
Photos: Maria Ziegelböck, Thomas Sandbichler, Susanne Wimmer, Gelatin
Layout: Johannes Heuer
Artist's book that documents in drawings, texts, and dynamic photographs the secret operation by the Austrian collective Gelatin to build a balcony on the 91st floor of Tower 1 of the World Trade Center in New York. Highly detailed, the book captures the efforts of the group to remove a window, construct a gangplank, then a small balcony and then for a few minutes one of its members walks out on the balcony. Adding to the mystique is the question as to whether this performance actually happened.
"On March 19, 2000, at sunrise at quarter past six, a man stepped from the 91st floor of the World Trade Center onto a self-made balcony after removing an element of the glass facade. He remained there motionless for a few minutes, more than 300 meters above the ground, shaken by the updrafts on the skin of the building and filmed by a specially rented helicopter. Then the balcony was dismantled and the window was put back in place."