COSMOS - KOSMOS

COSMOS explores our changing relationship with the stars. This publication offers an intriguing dialogue between scientific objects from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and contemporary artworks. It demonstrates how imagination - both in art and science - drives our cosmological awareness and helps us grasp the vast, infinite story of the universe. This publication presents (scientific) illustrations, instruments and astrophotography by George & Dudley Adams, William Blake, Johann Elert Bode, John F. W. Herschel, William Herschel, Loewy & Puiseux, Hartog van Laun, Warren de la Rue, and Etienne Leopold Trouvelot, in relation with contemporary artworks by Saskia Noor van Imhoff, Trevor Paglen, Katie Paterson, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Vincent Verhoef.