PRE-ORDER THE LUXURY EDITION BOOK WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING
Post by Roger Malina on Oct 31, 2024
RCM GALERIE is proud to announce the publication this December of the first comprehensive book on the art of Frank Malina (1912-1981), the American rocket scientist turned Paris-based artist. Co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and founder of the visionary art/science revue Leonardo, Malina was one of the fathers of light art. The book traces Malina’s singular transition from aerospace engineering to a leading figure in scientific abstraction while navigating the Cold War’s political, security, and multimedia creative landscape.
It examines how Malina blended his American cultural heritage with the ambitions of the European avant-garde and engaged in interdisciplinary and inter-community exchanges. The book situates Malina as one of the forefathers of many contemporary currents and reflections.
English texts : Camille Fremontier (ed.), with contributions by Margit Rosen and Annikki Luukela, an unpublished Frank Popper interview with the artist, and a preface by Roger Malina. 252 pages
Hardcover, illustrated in color Price: 45 euros TTC Publisher & distributor : Les presses du réel ISBN: 978-2-37896-558-7
TWENTY COPIES OF A LUXURY EDITION ACCOMPANIED BY AN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY MALINA ARE AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER; EACH BOOK IS DELIVERED IN A LUXURY NUMBERED SLIPCASE AND ACCOMPANIED BY AN ORIGINAL DRAWING
About the authors
Camille Fremontier, PhD in History and Civilisations, EHESS, Paris, is co-director of the RCM Galerie, Paris. The gallery’s exhibition program explores the relationship between art and science in the second half of the twentieth century.
Frank Popper was a historian of art and technology and a professor at the University of Paris VIII. He is the author of Origins and Development of Kinetic Art (Studio Vista and New York Graphic Society, 1968), and From Technological to Virtual Art (Leonardo Books, MIT Press, 2006).
Margit Rosen is an art historian and curator. In 2016, she established the department “Collection, Archives & Research” at the ZKM Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, which she has headed since then. She is the editor of A Little-Known Story about a Movement, a Magazine, and the Computer’s Arrival in Art: New Tendencies and Bit International, 1961-1973 (MIT Press, 2011).
Annikki Luukela, the former assistant in Frank Malina’s studio, became one of Finland’s first light artists, creating light sculptures, holograms, light visualizations for dance performances, and “light spaces” that combine light and sound.
Roger Malina, served for many years as executive editor of the Leonardo publications at MIT Press. He is an associate director of arts and technology at the University of Texas, Dallas.
