Works and Days of Hands
30th Biennial of Sao Paulo 2012

The book Works and Days of Hands was issued on the occasion of Savvas Christodoulides’ participation in the 30th Biennial of Sao Paulo. It contains twenty artworks chosen for this event by the curator of the Biennale, Luis Perez Oramas. The works not only comply with the theme of the Biennial, The Imminence of Poetics, but are also leading examples of the artist’s work: readymade items discard their state of expediency to become components in the artwork, thereby conforming to new ideological principles and values. The title of the publication is taken from a verse by T. S. Eliot wherein works and days, that is to say, time, are considered as obeying and being subject to the body. In other words, the work – and the instance of its creation – is the fruit of a gesture made by the body and, in consequence, of the mind.

Savvas Christodoulides lives and works in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Texts: Nadja Argyropoulou, Stavros Kavallaris
Design: This is Amateur

Size: 170×230 mm
Pages: 60
Illustrations: 22 images
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 1000 copies

2012

ISBN:978-960-99662-8-3