Mikhail Tolmachev – Beyond Visual Range

200 pages, 22 x 30 cm
2015, Softcover, English
ISBN: 978-3-944903-10-1
MMKoehn

Conception and design of the artist’s publication. Implemented in collaboration with Christian Hofer. “Beyond Visual Range” was a large scale artistic intervention in the Central Armed Forces Museum in Moscow in 2014.

The publication was an attempt to translate an exhibition into book form based on the architecture of the museum, trying to understand the museum as the artist’s medium. The design of each installation was treated for itself. The narrative solutions always related to the particular space and the work developed for it. As an introduction to the book, photographs of the museum were rigorously cropped to sharpen the view of the institution and question the appearance of objectivity. The subtle intervention within the museum is reflected in a mix of materials – different weights of paper and a hidden part of the dialogue.