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Locher, J. L.. Mark Boyle's journey to the surface of the earth. Edited and texts by J. L. Locher. Special edition for Kunstmuseum Luzern as volume 1 of "Mark Boyle's Journey to the surface of the earth" (marked on spine and title page). Lucerne: Kunstmuseum Luzern, Stuttgart: Hansjörg Mayer, 1978.
270 pages : color, black and white illustrations ; 23.8 x 22.5 cm.
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270 pages : color, black and white illustrations ; 23.8 x 22.5 cm.
REMARK by MK:
looking again at the publication Edition Hj Mayer, it seems that as suchit as a monographic book on Boyle, which was published o occasion of the exhibition in Lucerne, but also to the earlier version at the Venice Biennial, , which published it's own exhibition catalogue, see a more recent scan of that we can related to this publication/exhibition.
Our own publication , titled as vol. 2, with the German Title and extracts and both artists names was the proper exhibition catalogue, as well as the vol. 3 for the Swiss Series, shown and published in 1980)From Elena's Abstracts )# 30 trans in English by HM, draft to be edited by Claudia St. and MK
This abstract relates to all 3 publications MB
MARK BOYLE AND JOAN HILLS
The general title of the catalogue is Mark Boyles und Joan Hills’ Reise um die Welt / Mark Boyle’s and Joan Hill’s Journey to the Surface of the Earth, and it takes the form of three separate volumes—Vol. 1, Vol. 2, and Vol. 3— that present a photographic and written documentation of the work, in the period of 1978–1980, of the artist Mark Boyle, in collaboration with his wife, Joan Hills.
Vol. 1, in English, bears the title Mark Boyle’s Journey to the Surface of the Earth and was published by Edition Hansjörg Mayer in collaboration with Kunstmuseum Luzern on the occasion of the artist’s exhibition at the British pavilion of the 1978 Venice Biennale.
Vol. 2, in German, bears the title Mark Boyles und Joan Hills’ Reise um die Welt and reproduces, in German translation, a number of the texts that appear in Vol. 1 (Mark Boyle’s Journey to the Surface of the Earth, as published in Stuttgart in 1978 by Edition Hansjörg Mayer) and was published on the occasion of the Mark Boyle exhibition, revised and amplified, and curated by Martin Kunz, at Kunstmuseum Luzern, again in 1978, the same year in which it was earlier presented at the Venice biennale. Martin Kunz collaborated from the very start with Mark Boyle and the British Council both for the co-ordination of the presentation at the Biennale, and for the organization of the more extended version of the show that immediately followed at Kunstmuseum Luzern.
Vol. 3, bilingual in English and German, bears the title Mark Boyles’ und Joan Hill’s Reise um die Welt – Schweizer Serie / Mark Boyle’s and Joan Hill’s Journey to the Surface of the Earth – The Swiss Site, and is dedicated to the couple’s two-year exploration of a Swiss locale, of which the report was then presented, in 1980, as an exhibition at Kunstmuseum Luzern. This exhibition and its catalogue had been preceded by the artist’s major retrospective—Mark Boyle’s Journey to the Surface of the Earth Vol. 1—at the British pavilion of the 1978 Venice Biennale; and it was in the course of that retrospective that visitors had taken part in a chance-based operation which resulted in the indication that the artists were to make a journey of exploration to a certain locale in Switzerland. At Kunstmuseum Luzern, the artists thus presented a thorough documentation of that journey. Though based on the exploration of an entirely chance-determined site, the resultant work was quite germane and presented a wealth of various kinds of information.
The artist’s praxis consisted of an objective and detailed, but almost “obsessively chance-determined” exploration of the surface of the earth and of inhabited urban centers; and the destinations of these journeys of exploration were often determined in nearly playful ways, such as by darts thrown at a globe or a world map by visitors at an exhibition. Mark Boyle and his wife Joan Hills then traveled to the designated places, abandoning all subjective whims on things to do in the course of their travels. They limited themselves entirely to the collection of large or small samples of the territory they were visiting, also photographing particulars of its animal and vegetable life: photographs that were then enlarged into unrecognizability. The end result is the expression of a highly original aesthetic that aims to rid itself of any subjective gaze, but which again becomes personal and individual by way of the deployment of various means of documentation which are also inclusive of video, writing, and live performance.
text by EM
The bilingual English/German Catalogue entitled " Mark Boyles and Joan Hills- Journey to the Surface of the Earth" in two volumes (Volume 2 and Volume 3) is the photographic and written documentation of the exhibition of artist Mark Boyles, with the collaboration of his wife: Joan Hills, at the Lucerne Museum in 1980. The artist's method consisted of an objective and particular, but entirely casual, survey of the earth's surface and inhabited urban centers. This was done by a journey decided often in an almost playful way (the throwing of darts on a globe or map by visitors) and deciding the stages that the artist himself would explore by his method. Mark Boyles and his wife Joan Hills would then go to the deputed sites, abandoning all subjective traveler veillment and merely taking large and small samples of the territory, and then photographing (and enlarging to the hilt) plant and animal details of the territory itself. The result is a very original aesthetic choice that by wanting to relieve itself of the subjective gaze becomes even more personal and original. The Lucerne catalog and exhibition was preceded by an earlier major retrospective of the artist's work at the British Pavilion in Venice in 1978 entitled: Mark Boyle's Journey- to the Surface of the Earth vol.1, then receiving (from visitors) as a random location to visit a place in Switzerland. Lucerne catalogs 2 and 3 partly reproduce some of the texts in translation of this first 1978 catalog by the Stuttgart publisher Mayer and enrich the contents of the first catalog with Boyles and Joan Hills' (two-year) exploration of Switzerland. The artist later became well known for his multi-sensory shows called Light Shows, (which later became very fashionable in a more commercial version far removed from the artist's oeuvre) which he composed at concerts of musicians such as Jimmy Hendrix and Soft Machine using video and photographic materials from his geographical explorations.
The Lucerne catalog and exhibition was preceded by an earlier major retrospective of the artist's work at the British Pavilion in Venice in 1978, entitled: Mark Boyle's Journey- to the Surface of the Earth vol.1, then receiving (from visitors) as a random location to visit a place in Switzerland.
Later the artist became, even before the 1970s, well known for his multi-sensory shows called Light Shows, composed at concerts of musicians and musical groups such as Jimmy Hendrix, Soft Machine and Cream and for which he used video and photographic materials of his actual geographical explorations. The quasi-scientific/artistic method by which Boyle edited and produced his Light Shows was later distorted and simplified for commercial purposes by many musicians and concert promoters in the 1970s, losing its relationship with the artist's real original intentions, who nevertheless managed to retain his rights as an author. Through the proceeds of this unexpected success Boyle continued to finance his endless excursion over the entire surface of the earth.
looking again at the publication Edition Hj Mayer, it seems that as suchit as a monographic book on Boyle, which was published o occasion of the exhibition in Lucerne, but also to the earlier version at the Venice Biennial, , which published it's own exhibition catalogue, see a more recent scan of that we can related to this publication/exhibition.
Our own publication , titled as vol. 2, with the German Title and extracts and both artists names was the proper exhibition catalogue, as well as the vol. 3 for the Swiss Series, shown and published in 1980)From Elena's Abstracts )# 30 trans in English by HM, draft to be edited by Claudia St. and MK
This abstract relates to all 3 publications MB
MARK BOYLE AND JOAN HILLS
The general title of the catalogue is Mark Boyles und Joan Hills’ Reise um die Welt / Mark Boyle’s and Joan Hill’s Journey to the Surface of the Earth, and it takes the form of three separate volumes—Vol. 1, Vol. 2, and Vol. 3— that present a photographic and written documentation of the work, in the period of 1978–1980, of the artist Mark Boyle, in collaboration with his wife, Joan Hills.
Vol. 1, in English, bears the title Mark Boyle’s Journey to the Surface of the Earth and was published by Edition Hansjörg Mayer in collaboration with Kunstmuseum Luzern on the occasion of the artist’s exhibition at the British pavilion of the 1978 Venice Biennale.
Vol. 2, in German, bears the title Mark Boyles und Joan Hills’ Reise um die Welt and reproduces, in German translation, a number of the texts that appear in Vol. 1 (Mark Boyle’s Journey to the Surface of the Earth, as published in Stuttgart in 1978 by Edition Hansjörg Mayer) and was published on the occasion of the Mark Boyle exhibition, revised and amplified, and curated by Martin Kunz, at Kunstmuseum Luzern, again in 1978, the same year in which it was earlier presented at the Venice biennale. Martin Kunz collaborated from the very start with Mark Boyle and the British Council both for the co-ordination of the presentation at the Biennale, and for the organization of the more extended version of the show that immediately followed at Kunstmuseum Luzern.
Vol. 3, bilingual in English and German, bears the title Mark Boyles’ und Joan Hill’s Reise um die Welt – Schweizer Serie / Mark Boyle’s and Joan Hill’s Journey to the Surface of the Earth – The Swiss Site, and is dedicated to the couple’s two-year exploration of a Swiss locale, of which the report was then presented, in 1980, as an exhibition at Kunstmuseum Luzern. This exhibition and its catalogue had been preceded by the artist’s major retrospective—Mark Boyle’s Journey to the Surface of the Earth Vol. 1—at the British pavilion of the 1978 Venice Biennale; and it was in the course of that retrospective that visitors had taken part in a chance-based operation which resulted in the indication that the artists were to make a journey of exploration to a certain locale in Switzerland. At Kunstmuseum Luzern, the artists thus presented a thorough documentation of that journey. Though based on the exploration of an entirely chance-determined site, the resultant work was quite germane and presented a wealth of various kinds of information.
The artist’s praxis consisted of an objective and detailed, but almost “obsessively chance-determined” exploration of the surface of the earth and of inhabited urban centers; and the destinations of these journeys of exploration were often determined in nearly playful ways, such as by darts thrown at a globe or a world map by visitors at an exhibition. Mark Boyle and his wife Joan Hills then traveled to the designated places, abandoning all subjective whims on things to do in the course of their travels. They limited themselves entirely to the collection of large or small samples of the territory they were visiting, also photographing particulars of its animal and vegetable life: photographs that were then enlarged into unrecognizability. The end result is the expression of a highly original aesthetic that aims to rid itself of any subjective gaze, but which again becomes personal and individual by way of the deployment of various means of documentation which are also inclusive of video, writing, and live performance.
text by EM
The bilingual English/German Catalogue entitled " Mark Boyles and Joan Hills- Journey to the Surface of the Earth" in two volumes (Volume 2 and Volume 3) is the photographic and written documentation of the exhibition of artist Mark Boyles, with the collaboration of his wife: Joan Hills, at the Lucerne Museum in 1980. The artist's method consisted of an objective and particular, but entirely casual, survey of the earth's surface and inhabited urban centers. This was done by a journey decided often in an almost playful way (the throwing of darts on a globe or map by visitors) and deciding the stages that the artist himself would explore by his method. Mark Boyles and his wife Joan Hills would then go to the deputed sites, abandoning all subjective traveler veillment and merely taking large and small samples of the territory, and then photographing (and enlarging to the hilt) plant and animal details of the territory itself. The result is a very original aesthetic choice that by wanting to relieve itself of the subjective gaze becomes even more personal and original. The Lucerne catalog and exhibition was preceded by an earlier major retrospective of the artist's work at the British Pavilion in Venice in 1978 entitled: Mark Boyle's Journey- to the Surface of the Earth vol.1, then receiving (from visitors) as a random location to visit a place in Switzerland. Lucerne catalogs 2 and 3 partly reproduce some of the texts in translation of this first 1978 catalog by the Stuttgart publisher Mayer and enrich the contents of the first catalog with Boyles and Joan Hills' (two-year) exploration of Switzerland. The artist later became well known for his multi-sensory shows called Light Shows, (which later became very fashionable in a more commercial version far removed from the artist's oeuvre) which he composed at concerts of musicians such as Jimmy Hendrix and Soft Machine using video and photographic materials from his geographical explorations.
The Lucerne catalog and exhibition was preceded by an earlier major retrospective of the artist's work at the British Pavilion in Venice in 1978, entitled: Mark Boyle's Journey- to the Surface of the Earth vol.1, then receiving (from visitors) as a random location to visit a place in Switzerland.
Later the artist became, even before the 1970s, well known for his multi-sensory shows called Light Shows, composed at concerts of musicians and musical groups such as Jimmy Hendrix, Soft Machine and Cream and for which he used video and photographic materials of his actual geographical explorations. The quasi-scientific/artistic method by which Boyle edited and produced his Light Shows was later distorted and simplified for commercial purposes by many musicians and concert promoters in the 1970s, losing its relationship with the artist's real original intentions, who nevertheless managed to retain his rights as an author. Through the proceeds of this unexpected success Boyle continued to finance his endless excursion over the entire surface of the earth.
Edited and texts by J. L. Locher. Special edition for Kunstmuseum Luzern as volume 1 of "Mark Boyle's Journey to the surface of the earth" (marked on spine and title page)
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