The artist book ‘Hope intensifies delusion’ extends and complicates the exhibition of the same title at Simultanhalle Cologne shown in December 2018. Six light sculptures unfolded like characters from floor to ceiling operated by HID-lamps (high intensity discharge). A computer script kept them in warm-up mode in which they slowly gained in brightness and moved through various color spectrums.
The book extends the exhibition with a personal patent collection by the artist Jakob Rockenschaub. The selected patents connect with the pieces shown and technologies on view on different levels. While flipping through the pages readers are entering into another world or maybe a closet space of our everyday technological environment. The sequence of four different paper colors reflects on the changing color spectrum of the light sculptures, making them tangible within the format of a book. - Strzelecki Books