Cover
Hardcover
Edition
2021, 23 x 30 cm, 512 pp., 730 ill., Romanian/English
Collection
Artist Book Series
ISBN 978-973-0-34823-1
Book concept, editor
Alina Șerban
Authors
Katarzyna Cytlak, Constantin Flondor, Rainer Fuchs, Dieter Roelstraete & Abigail Winograd, Alina Șerban
Design
Andrei Turenici
When Eye Touches Cloud is the first monograph dedicated to the manifold oeuvre of Romanian artist Constantin Flondor (born 1936, in Czernowitz, based in Timișoara since 1948), the leading protagonist of the art groups 111, Sigma and Prolog. This richly illustrated publication takes a closer look on the influential body of work he had produced in painting, kinetic & Op art, land art, action, experimental film & photography. It surveys the various steps of his practice: from the lyricism of the first pictorial constructs to the optical and kinetic art of the Group 111, from the study of form and land art characteristic of the Sigma Group, defined as the effort to connect within a single equation visual research and experiment, to the Prolog Group’s spirit of communion and conviviality. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the principles that shape Constantin Flondor’s art, of reflecting and theorising starting from the inventory of terms, themes, and concepts that have guided him as an artist over seventy years of uninterrupted work and of restoring them to the international context of art.
Publication supported by: Kontakt Collection Vienna, Diehl Gallery Berlin, Eleon Association, Constantin Flondor