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KQED Spark: Chris Cobb
02:10  - 4 years ago
nstallation artist Chris Cobb's "There Is Nothing Wrong in This Whole Wide World" involved reclassifying the books at the Mission District's Adobe Books -- by color. Cobb, along with nearly twenty assistants, spent an entire night arranging all of the neighborhood bookstore and sometime gallery's estimated 20,000 books to create a continuous spectrum, covering the entirety of the shop, The installation remained up from November 12, 2004 until January 20, 2005. Spark checked in on Cobb and his team as they transformed an everyday space into a stunning work of art. Spark airs on KQED TV on Wednesday at 7:30pm PT and Friday at 11pm PT.
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