This catalogue was published on the occasion of Greek artist Apostolos Palavrakis’ (b. 1962) exhibition ‘Desire and Disaster’, that took place in late 2018 at Beck & Eggeling gallery, Düsseldorf. It is conceived as a POV simulation of what it would look like to see the presented works from up close, through the eyes of an actual viewer — to achieve this, all the installation views have been arranged in a simple, full-page format, so as to not distract the viewer with any negative space at all. The eye is guided from extreme close-ups to wide-angle views, getting a tangible feel of the works’ various employed materials as well as of the way they have been installed. Furthermore, even the typographic elements have been kept at a minimum, omitting page numbering and other information, so as to leave the surface of the page solely for the works themselves. The catalogue, as an object, is almost functioning as a sculpture in itself. By being covered in a metallic, reflective sheet and trimmed straightly at its edges it is turned into a similarly geometric object, echoing the intense materiality seen in the artist’s own work — especially in the equally reflective central works of this particular exhibition.
