Jungjin Lee - Desert El Croquis Claes Iversen

Claes Iversen

a passionate collector of books

4 exploded during a systems test

Arrives courtesy of TIS Books (New York City)

seem like an abnormal error in the urban imagination of present-day administrators

Jungjin Lee - Desert El Croquis Claes IversenDesert comprises four series of works (each bound as a separate book and presented in a unique slipcase), all of which contain monochromatic images of arid lands. Stratigraphy etched into rock faces, massive stones, cave like precipices and anthropomorphic fauna showcase an extensive compendium of the desert's many faces and textures. Each image focuses on the landscape's formal qualities, eschewing human presence, simultaneously evoking late 19th