The Future's Mirror

Newcastle upon Tyne: Locus+, 1996. Book. Good. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Softcover. Condition: Good, with general light shelfwear to covers, and some rubbing to cover edges. No inscriptions. Unpaginated. Many colour illustrations. This catalogue was produced to accompany the exhibition of work by the Swiss illustrator Cornelia Hesse-Honegger (b.1944) held at Tullie House, Carlisle from November 1997 to January 1997. The exhibition then toured with its related exhibition "After Chernobyl" to Leeds, Middlesborough, Nottingham and Vancouver. "For 25 years Cornelia Hesse-Honegger worked as a scientific illustrator for the scientific department of the Natural History Museum at the University of Zurich. Her work is an interface between art and science; it plays witness to a beautiful but endangered nature. Since the catastrophe of Chernobyl in 1986, she has collected, studied and painted morphologically disturbed insects, which she finds in the fallout areas of Chernobyl as well as near nuclear installations. As a result of her studies, she is convinced that in regions where the radioactive fallout from Chernobyl, or from normally working nuclear power plants, hits ground, the vegetation is contaminated, and a certain percentage of the insects, like leaf bugs, become morphologically disturbed"..