
Artist as Astronaut: The Otherworldly Art of Ionel Talpazan is a vibrant collection of artworks by, and interviews with, the visionary artist Ionel Talpazan.
“I have to believe that for Talpazan these drawings were a kind of therapy. All art making is, in a way, and I suspect for him there was a kind of healing that was going on as these stained-glass spaceships poured out of him. I suspect, like many who have found and experienced a vision, he may have sensed that these works exerted a calming and healing effect on others as well. They certainly have for me . . . His are spiritual drawings. Guidemarkers. Tools.” — David Byrne, musician and artist
Drawing upon more than a decade of interviews and research, scholar Daniel Wojcik and Strange Attractor Press present an out-of-this-world monograph on the life and artistic achievements of Ionel Talpazan, a Romanian-American visionary artist, gathered together in one volume for the first time.
Artist as Astronaut will contain nearly 200 full colour images of Talpazan’s work, many never seen before, alongside personal archival photographs and ephemera, and essays by artists and art historians, including David Byrne, Tony Oursler, Valérie Rousseau, David Tibet, and Terry Winters.

