Fly Me to the Moon — The Moscow Chapter in Print
A bilingual artist’s book bringing together the MMOMA exhibition, new works and the GUM installations
01st Jan 2019
Fly Me to the Moon brings Jacky Tsai’s Moscow chapter into print: a bilingual artist’s book connecting the works, ideas and exhibition spaces of his first solo exhibition in Russia.
Taking its title from the exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), the publication offers a lasting record of a significant moment in Tsai’s practice. Across 152 pages, artworks, installation photography and an interview with the artist bring together the intimate processes of making and the public experience of encountering the work.
Fly Me to the Moon — clothbound with a lenticular cover.
The clothbound edition of Fly Me to the Moon.
A book to look at, and look through
The book’s cloth binding and lenticular cover extend Tsai’s interest in surface, movement and changing viewpoints into the publication itself. Measuring 33 × 28 cm, the generous format gives space to both the intricate details of individual works and the larger settings in which they were shown. Published in an edition of 500, it is conceived as a substantial object in its own right.
An artwork spread from Fly Me to the Moon.
Inside the work
Texts in English and Russian accompany reproductions of the works, insights into studio techniques and an interview with Tsai. The movement between image and text makes room for the different materials and visual languages in his practice, from the detail of traditional Chinese craft to compositions that bring Eastern and Western references into conversation.
English and Russian texts accompany the artworks.
From the museum to GUM
Exhibition photographs return the reader to the MMOMA galleries, recording the relationship between the artworks, architecture and visitors. They preserve an experience that individual artwork reproductions cannot convey: scale, proximity and the passage from one work to another.
The MMOMA exhibition documented across a double-page spread.
The book also includes images of Tsai’s installations at GUM, where the Chinese New Year project brought his visual world into the landmark department store. Read together, the museum and GUM photographs document two complementary settings for the Moscow projects: the focused encounter of a gallery and the scale of a public installation.
The GUM installations featured in the publication.
Publication details
Fly Me to the Moon
Published January 2019
English and Russian
152 pages · 33 × 28 cm
Clothbound with lenticular cover
Edition of 500
Copies from the edition of Fly Me to the Moon.
Explore the MMOMA exhibition
Read the Moscow exhibition announcement
Discover the GUM Chinese New Year installations