Hardback, black and white illustrations, 48 pages, W170 x H245mm.
Ryan Gander's book The Boy Who Always Looked Up tells
its own story in the distinctive style of a children’s book. The
narrative takes place through the eyes of a child who describes the
life and death of the modernist architect Erno Goldfinger, who built
Notting Hill's Trellick Tower. The failure of late twentieth century
utopian ideals is heightened through the innocent protagonist.
Gander plays upon the artist’s use of constructed fictions that are
or could be based upon actual realities or occurrences within the
everyday. To Gander, the past, and by inference, the present are open
to a state of imagined disturbance or articulation through a strategy
that places fictional characterisation at the core of his practice.
This book is designed by Sara De Bondt and is a limited edition of 500.