New monograph.
This publication is the first to fully document Marten's extraordinary and extensive recent artistic output. It represents a year-long touring exhibition initiated by the Kunsthalle Zürich with the show "Almost the exact shape of Florida." Together with "Plank Salad" at the Chisenhale Gallery in London and "No borders in a wok that can't be crossed" at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, these three exhibitions present one of the most fertile, and one might say febrile, artistic productions of our time. The book includes numerous installation and work views as well as newly commissioned texts by
Ed Atkins, Michael Archer, Kit Grover, Flint Jamison, and
Richard Wentworth.
British artist Helen Marten (born 1985 in Macclesfield, lives and works in London) pokes humorously at questions of ownership and dishonesty in materials, the relationship of object to artifact, and package to product. Interested in the grammatical approximations made in workmanship, Marten's oeuvre weaves constant conversations between counterfeit and camouflage. Image is continually tripped up by language, by a deliberateness of error that postures with all the concrete certainty of cultural recognizability.
Helen Marten won the 2016 Turner Prize.
Edited by Tom Eccles, Beatrix Ruf, Polly Staple.
Texts by
Michael Archer,
Ed Atkins,
Tom Eccles,
Kit Grover,
Flint Jamison,
Beatrix Ruf,
Polly Staple,
Richard Wentworth.
published in July 2013
bilingual edition (English / German)
20,5 x 25,7 cm (hardcover, dust jacket)
156 pages (234 color ill.)
ISBN : 978-3-03764-346-4
EAN : 9783037643464
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