Dressing The Air is the brainchild of the London-based artist Paul Schütze.

In a career spanning 30 years, Schütze has exhibited his photographic and installation works in galleries and museums around the world, released over thirty albums of original recordings, scored a number of films and performed numerous concerts. He has collaborated with artists such as James Turrell, Josiah McElheny and Isaac Julien and musicians as diverse as Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Toshinori Kondo, Lol Coxhill and Jah Wobble.

Dressing The Air is a unique open resource that aims to enrich creative thinking by encouraging a multi-sensory approach. A constantly evolving archive and creative news feed, Dressing The Air monitors and reports on a diverse range of art-forms from cinema to sculpture, painting to furniture design, land-art to perfumery.

dressing the air: the bureau of sensory intelligence

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Black Maps
David Maisel

23/06/13

Black Maps

This new and complete survey of David Maisel's aerial photography carries the subtitle: American Landscape And The Apocalyptic Sublime. Maisel's disturbingly beautiful images of ravaged and ruptured surfaces: blighted and deformed: encrusted and seared, present an aesthetic of transformation and disease.  The accretion, even infestation, of mankind across the surface of the American continent, is seen in Maisel's photographs as a vision of destruction which echoes the epic beauty of John Martin's paintings or the hellish fascination of Kuwait's burning oil fields in Werner Herzog's film Lessons In Darkness. 

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"By the midnight taper, the writers digests his meditations. By the same light we must approach to their perusal, if we would catch the flame, the odour."
- Charles Lamb,