Zurich 2009. Paperback, 160 pp, 79 col / 26 b/w illustrations, 238 x 286 mm £25.00

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Martin Boyce is an artist working at the interface of design, architecture and the social environment who came to international prominence during the 1990s.

When he disturbs the substance of the works of Arne Jacobsen, Mies van der Rohe and Charles and Ray Eames or when he builds his 'fragile landscapes', he underlines the continuity between style, human habitat and life. Distilling elements of familiar, anonymous urban environments, often appropriating iconic visual languages of classic modernist design, cinema and architecture, Boyce weaves a complex web of associations in a process of describing and abstracting cultural and social spaces. The disquietening balance of opposites, of intimacy and distance, interior and exterior, beauty and tension within his installations, seems to amplify the unlocatable anxiety, paranoia and dysfunction in contemporary cities at the same time as it encourages an almost nostalgic reverie.