Quiet Earth, Paris, Éditions Lord Byron, 2025
First edition
Edition of 20 copies
This special edition comes with an original artwork by the artist
Hardcover, 24.9 x 37.6 cm, 272 pages
ISBN: 978-2-491901-90-5
The book Quiet Earth is the first facsimile edition based on the eponymous atlas by Bogdan Pavlović, dated 2022.
“Who has never dreamed, while gazing at the open pages of an atlas, of distant lands, marvellous landscapes, or unfamiliar territories? Nothing fuels our travel fantasies quite like these world maps, and often, our longing to explore begins right there. With the Another Country Project Atlas, Bogdan Pavlović delves into the cartography of his own imagination, overlaying the pages of an atlas with drawings, diverse representations, scenes, animals, and figures — a multiplicity of perspectives on a world at once spatially bounded and infinitely rich in its depictions and possibilities.” (Marie Deparis-Yafil)
Born in 1969 in Belgrade, Bogdan Pavlović is a Franco-Serbian artist whose singular trajectory lies at the intersection of multiple mediums and artistic traditions. A graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1997, he currently lives and works at La Ruche — the legendary Parisian artists’ colony founded in 1895 by the sculptor Alfred Boucher, a historic hub of creativity that has hosted many leading figures of modern art.
A polymorphic artist, Pavlović embraces a multidisciplinary practice that spans drawing, collage, painting, photography, video, and installation. His work is particularly distinguished by his unique engagement with atlases — which he blackens, diverts, and reassembles into artist books, endowing these vessels of knowledge with renewed poetic and critical resonance. This visual and semantic metamorphosis reveals a deep reflection on representations of the world, mental geographies, and collective memory.
His works have been acquired by numerous prestigious public and private collections, including those of Lefranc & Bourgeois, Montres Rado France, Opel France, Aéroports de Paris, as well as the Zepter Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, and the Belgrade City Museum.
Through an approach that is both conceptual and sensuous, Bogdan Pavlović interrogates established forms of knowledge and perception, asserting himself with rigour and originality within the contemporary international art scene.
