bormgans's review
5.0
Roman Ondák – born in 1966 in Slovakia – is the second guy that saved dOCUMENTA (13) for me. (For the first, see Kader Attia on my blog.)
Observations is such a poetic work. It consists of found photos, for which Ondák invented captions, presented as being cut out as such from magazines. At times funny, at times sharp, at times heartfelt, always on point. Ondák manages to frame regular, everyday existence as what it truly is: a wonder.
The book reproduces all photos with their captions, and is always a 100% delight when I show it to people.
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Observations is such a poetic work. It consists of found photos, for which Ondák invented captions, presented as being cut out as such from magazines. At times funny, at times sharp, at times heartfelt, always on point. Ondák manages to frame regular, everyday existence as what it truly is: a wonder.
The book reproduces all photos with their captions, and is always a 100% delight when I show it to people.
Click for more art book reviews on Weighing A Pig Doesn't Fatten it.
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