RISK COLOUR BOOK
Artist: Gustavo Artigas
Edited by France Choinière
2009, 64 pages, colour reproductions, hardcover, available in four distinct covers, 22,05$
ISBN : 978-2-922135-34-3
Risk Colour Book is the result of an encounter between two bodies of work, both involved with the concept of risk. Whether we are dealing with an inventory of toxic pigments and their possible secondary effects or with a performance recreating the moment when a pedestrian is struck by a car, Gustavo Artigas explores the various possible kinds of risk, disasters and accidents. Through recording, repetition and the staging of action, Artigas exposes the fragility of the body, subjected to a cunningly latent violence.
With this book, Dazibao rewards Gustavo Artigas, recipient of the Dazibao Award, conferred for the first time during the 2007 edition of the Mois de la photo à Montréal. Gustavo Artigas’s exhibition Tres Tiempos was presented in 2007 by B-312 gallery in the context of the Mois de la photo à Montréal. Curator : Marie Fraser. www.galerieb-312.qc.ca