James Casebere: After Scale Model

Wouter Davidts

Softcover | 17.2 x 0.7 x 24 cm | 64 pp

Snoeck Publishers | 2016 | 9789461613103

For forty years already the American artist James Casebere has been making models for the sole purpose of photographing them. His work is based on a thorough knowledge of architecture, art history and fllm. In his pictures he brings up the broader social context and goes in search of the historical and ideological structures thereof.

Initially fascinated by ordinary interiors and average American architecture, he later directed his attention to buildings that exude power and control, prison structures, inundated interiors, and world heritage sites. More recently he returned to the everyday by depicting suburban environments.

This publication accompanied an exhibition at the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels that featured examples of domestic spaces as well as monumental structures. Wouter Davidts contributes an essay, Dwelling in the Work of James Casebere.