“No Core” is the first monograph on Rosenkranz's increasingly
celebrated oeuvre. Beautifully designed by Yvonne Quirmbach, the book
features an overview of the work that Rosenkranz developed in three
recent institutional solo exhibitions in Geneva, New York, and
Braunschweig, Germany. The monograph, edited by Katya García-Antón,
Gianni Jetzer, Quinn Latimer, and Hilke Wagner presents contributions
by the art historian and writer Alex Kitnick and philosophers Robin
Mackay and Reza Negarestani, alongside extensive visual
documentation. Taken together, the compelling essays and images that
comprise “No Core” offer profound insights into Rosenkranz's unique
work and thinking.
For the past decade, Pamela Rosenkranz (born 1979 in Sils-Maria, lives and works in Berlin) has sought to collapse the meaning of the artwork into the
meaninglessness of pure materiality. In challenging these conditions of
art, she activates a contemporary form of nihilism. From paintings
produced from the foil of emergency blankets or Ralph Lauren-branded
latex paint and soft drinks, to plastic water bottles filled with skin- or
urine-hued liquids, to a monitor featuring an approximation of and
challenge to Yves Klein blue, Rosenkranz's artworks take aim at the
empty centers of history, politics, and our contemporary culture as a
whole. Her adept engagement with the homogenous surfaces of our
consumerist societies reveals them to be not just objects of desire but
parts of a natural order. In so doing, and by unraveling mystified
notions of art that has as its core the artist's subjectivity, Rosenkranz
incorporates questions about a “self” that insistently appears to be at
the absolute center of cultural attention.
