Talk

Gabriel Josipovici: ‘Hotel Andromeda’

RA Book Club

Friday 11 September 2015 6.30 - 8pm

The Saloon, Burlington House, Royal Academy of Arts

£19 (including exhibition entry on the day). £15 (event only).

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Join novelist, critic, literary theorist and playwright Gabriel Josipovici as he leads this book club on his new novel that charts the course of Joseph Cornell’s mysterious life and his remarkable boxes.

Gabriel Josipovici takes the title of his new novel Hotel Andromeda from one of Joseph Cornell’s enchanting box constructions, Andromeda: Grand Hôtel de l'Observatoire. This novel charts the course of Joseph Cornell’s mysterious life and strange boxes through the thoughts of Helena, a young art historian who tasks herself with writing a book about him.

Author, Gabriel Josipovici will lead this book club, giving participants a unique opportunity to discuss Hotel Andromeda and ask questions, directly with the author.

All tickets include a drink.

£19 (including exhibition entry on the day). £15 (event only).

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Joseph Cornell

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Hotel Andromeda offers a wonderful entry point into the collage-boxes of Joseph Cornell. Evoking the specific ‘atmosphere’ of this most reclusive and elusive of twentieth-century cultural-heroes, Josipovici sidesteps any critical closure, in an exploration always open to ethical and aesthetic uncertainty. A young woman, an art historian in contemporary London, struggles to maintain her belief in art’s value, in the face of catastrophe elsewhere; out of this tension, Josiopovici creates a marvellous tragi-comic ‘box’, within which Cornell’s own poetic vision emerges – both light and profound.

Timothy Hyman