Hotel Bellevue

Dries Segers

Weight 170 g
Dimensions 180 × 110 mm
Cover

softcover

binding

thread bound

year

2021

printing

digital offset printed

coverage

168 pages

Format

180 x 110 mm

printrun

print-run 500 copies

ISBN

ISBN 9789464337600

Design by

graphic design by Chloé D'hauwe & Ine Meganck

language

English / Dutch

Publisher

published by Prospress

15,00 

VAT exempted according to UStG §19
Delivery Time: 10 working days

Weight: 170g

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Hotel Bellevue by Dries Segers is a beautiful, small photo book and a vocabulary centered around border trees, Celtic historical facts and visual speculation. This book is a manifesto for love, anger, the non-human, a wish to connect, to suggest, and to study. Only things from the heart deliver.
Mark trees are trees that are planted at strategic locations in the landscape. They make visible certain transitions of national, community and property borders. Multiple administrations monitor the conservation of these trees. Governments are obliged by law to maintain, replant and protect them. In a changing geopolitical landscape, however, these trees often lose their function as cultural-historical bearers and merge into their environment as non-information.
Trees have been present on this planet for 370,000,000 years. They have fallen into invisibility because they are losing their function in the landscape to a new, fuller panorama of symbols and signs. Road-building, agriculture and urbanisation have a lot to do with this, but so do technological and industrial progress. Centuries ago, some trees functioned as visual elements in a landscape in order to orient ourselves.