The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive to be released 2009

"The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive"
 A project by Fritz Haeg

For 6 years, Fritz Haeg opened his Los Angeles home to ideas and art through events, happenings, gatherings, meetings, pageantry, performances, shows, stunts and spectacles framed and affected by his unique house which included a subterranean cave, a geodesic dome, and a series of garden spaces. This special artists book documents the Sundown Salon events and also shares participants reflections on the idea of salons and the nature of viewing and making art communally and for a domestic space. "The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive" is both a book and an exhibition: It is printed as one long accordian fold paper. The text can be flipped through and read like a book, and the pictures can be unfurled to a 140 foot long art piece. The book has been conceived by Fritz in collaboration with Evil Twin Publications' Stacy Wakefield. It will be released in June 2009 in a limited edition of 500 copies.

A selection of drawings, made by Salon participants, will be hand-screened in different configurations, making each cover unique.

The book will be available from both Evil Twin and Distributed Art Publishers in New York.