Frank Gehry: Fish Lamps
exhibition catalogue and poster in slipcase
concept and book design
Frank Gehry has always experimented with sculpture and furniture in addition to his architectural pursuits, coaxing inventive forms out of unexpected materials. For his Fish Lamps series in the mid-1980s, he employed wire armatures molded into fish shapes, onto which shards are individually glued, creating clear allusions to the morphic attributes of real fish. In 2012 he revisited his earlier ideas and produced a new group of Fish Lamps, incorporating larger and more jagged elements, each unique and made by hand.
design Frank Gehry: Fish Lamps is a series of five booklets and a folded poster in a slipcase that accompanied the presentation of the sculptures at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, Paris, London, and Hong Kong. Displaying the same attention to material qualities as the sculptures themselves, this edition features various page sizes with contrasting uncoated and high-gloss paper. Large-scale full-bleed images allow the work to speak directly to the viewer. Hand-bound with black thread, the books exude a similar sense of crafted luxury as the lamps themselves.
client Gagosian Gallery, New York. Larry Gagosian opened his first gallery in Los Angeles in 1980, focusing on modern and contemporary art. Today, Gagosian has evolved into a global network with 16 exhibition spaces in the US, Europe, and the Far East.
collaborators
Paul Goldberger, text
articles & links
Frank Gehry: Fish Lamps, store
