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FOREST HILLS + POSTER BOOK + PRINT+BAG
  • FOREST HILLS + POSTER BOOK + PRINT+BAG

    S U N is excited to offer this bundle in a bag of Bill Sullivan's new edition of Forest Hills along with his book of posters from Forest Hills Stadium Bill Sullivan Posters 2015 - 2023 , and a signed & numbered 11“ x 14“ inkjet print and 300 lb, fine art paper presented in a S U N tote bag in organic heavy duty cotton canvas with a 23” handle. 

     

    The bundle contains the new edition of Bill Sullivan’s book Forest Hills, a surreal chronicle of the 20th-century history of tennis and art first published in 2013. Printed on the occasion of the 100-year anniversary of the Stadium at Forest Hills, Sullivan’s book confuses and conflates the 20th-century stories of tennis and art to create a new kind of history. Once the center of tennis in America and the home of the US Open, Forest Hills as it was once known is now an almost forgotten world, a lost civilization of the sport. Sullivan's Forest Hills uses photography and various types of image-making to chronicle its rise and fall. The book follows the history of the site and the birth of the stadium as it evolves from its heights as the cathedral of American tennis to its near-complete demise. Functioning as an ahistorical/historical document, Forest Hills is a story about a real place as well as a meditation on how this place and its elements may have been viewed by people in the past over time. The book contains 83 images in color and black and white, including several new depictions of the stadium, along with other new images produced for this edition. The linen cover is silkscreened and foil stamped with a design based on a print by the American painter Barnett Newman. 

     

    Since 2015 (following the release of the original version of the book in 2013) Sullivan has worked with the new management of the Stadium to help direct the look and feel of its ongoing renovation, using the book as something of a guide. The identity of the stadium has continued to shift and change over the last decade, as it has now become one of the preeminent outdoor music venues in the United States. 

     

    Bill Sullivan Posters 2015 - 2023 Forest Hills    Beginning in 2015, following the publication of his 2013 book Forest Hills , Bill Sullivan started working with the management of Forest Hills Stadium to produce a unique poster for every act that played the venue. The horseshoe shaped tennis stadium depicted by Sullivan in his book had had begun extensive renovations in 2013 turning the 14,000 seat tennis stadium into a modern concert venue . Bill Sullivan Posters 2015 - 2023 Forest Hills spans that 8 year period and includes each his 126 posters from that time. All of the posters in he series are built around the horseshoe shape that defines the stadium. The horseshoe shape provides the same basic format for each poster, as it completely changes its style to assume the specific identity of each of the different acts that play the venue.

     

    Forest Hills

     2023 

    silkscreened & foil stamped Linen cloth cover 

    144 pages

    9.6 x 6.6 inches (247 x 171 mm)  

    Printed offset by Die Keure in Belgium

    Edition of 1000

     

    2023 

    soft cover 

    256 pages

    6 x 8 inches (154 x 24mm)  

    Printed in Minesota

    Edition of 250

     

    Signed and numbered Ink jet print

    edition  of 100

    11“ x 14“

    Printed 300 lb, fine art paper

     

     

     

    $150 ( $10 shipping domestic,  $25 international )

               ~ free pick-up in NYC~

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