"From Arachnophobia to Arachnophilia" is a new artist's book by the Berlin-based conceptual artist and theorist Tomás Saraceno, focused on the environmental impact of spiders and their webs. This atlas-sized book contains five hand-cut, hand-printed pop-up scenes. 1/
The book was commissioned by the MoMA Library Council, and is printed in an edition of 165 signed copies. 100 copies are reserved for the Museum and the members of the Library Council, 40 for the artist and the collaborators, and 25 for sale to institutions and collectors. 2/
This volume is intended to draw attention to spiders, their webs, and our shared environment through the participatory and sculptural form of the pop-up book. 3/
Saraceno designed and produced this volume in collaboration with the London-based book artist and paper engineer Chisato Tamabayashi. 4/
Here Saraceno creates a 3-dimensional enchanted cobwebbed forest.... 5/
..... and here a layered image of diving bell spiders, insects that spend most of their lives underwater. 6/
The book contains several rather wonderful bookmarks, paper-cut spider webs trailing gossamer filaments, one of which is shown here. 7/
Pleased to see how much attention this thread has got from the Arachnophiliac community 🕷️🕸️
Here, from the opening pages of the book, is a letter addressed directly to you from the Spiders 🕷️🕷️🕷️
Here, from the opening pages of the book, is a letter addressed directly to you from the Spiders 🕷️🕷️🕷️
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