Interviews and images of the work of the Los Angeles-based artist Paul Sietsema.
The residual aesthetics of Paul Sietsema's art practice result from the translation of visual information between mediums—for instance, his sculptures and paintings appear on film rather than in their original media. Through the accumulation of conversations with the artist spanning from 2006 to 2012—primarily reproductions of earlier material with the addition of a new interview by Adam Szymczyk, director of Kunsthalle Basel, and
Quinn Latimer, an art critic and the book's editor—the discursive texts in
Interviews on Films and Works obliquely encompass the issues central to the artist's work, including the perception of present time and the relationship of materials to form. Also featured in the publication are stills from newly produced films,
Telegraph (2012) and
Encre Chine (2012), as well as reproductions of paintings and works on paper developed from the recurring visual motif of a photograph of a sailboat—continuing Sietsema's ongoing investigation into the mechanics of knowledge and history within image culture.
Published on the occasion of Paul Sietsema's exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel in 2012.
Paul Sietsema (born 1968 in Los Angeles, lives and works in Los Angeles and Berlin) has lately been receiving considerable attention for his films and other works. Each specific work by Paul Sietsema can be described as a formalization of the work process — the end phase or perhaps just the suspension of this process—following several years of researching, constructing and layering of the varied, often personally connoted cultural material. Thus, the durational character of films is equaled by the duration of the process of their making—a particular work ethic that informs the work's proper subject, while the motif and medium may vary. Sietsema's drawings and paintings, often realized with the use of idiosyncratic, labor-intensive techniques devised by the artist, usually involve working through existing artifacts, which serve as a starting point for series of material transformations.
published in September 2012
English edition
21 x 26,5 cm (softcover)
144 pages (31 color & 50 b/w ill.)
ISBN : 978-3-943365-24-5
EAN : 9783943365245
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