Four Seasons

Four Seasons Yuji Agematsu March 2021Sequence Press, Secession, Revolver PublishingText by Robin MackayDesigned by Studio Claus Due, CopenhagenSoftcover w/ Swiss brochure binding 128pp (two 64pp sections) 175 x 246.5 mm (680 x 240 mm flat), 250 color images ISBN 978-1-7336281-9-8   Yuji Agematsu, Four Seasons is a unique artist book presenting the artist’s renowned zips, miniature sculptures comprised of reanimated urban detritus collected by Agematsu on daily walks in New York City and encased within the cellophane wrappers of cigarette packs.The publication accompanies an exhibition at the Secession, Vienna of 366—one per day—of these arrangements from 2020, that infamous calendar year. The book features images of a selected month from each of the four seasons. Designed by Claus Due, this Swiss brochure-bound edition ingeniously contains two books in one, organizing the lusciously reproduced, enlarged views of individual selected days from the zip works on the left, and the corresp