Paul Chan: Selected Works

(Artist) Paul Chan, (Editor) Heidi Naef, (Editor) Isabel Friedli, (Foreword) Maja Oeri, (Text) Daniel Birnbaum

ISBN 10: 3952397172 / ISBN 13: 9783952397176

Published by Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager Basel, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Paul Chan: Selected Works
• Publisher: Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager Basel
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3952397172
• ISBN 13: 9783952397176
• Binding: Oversized Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • ART-MONOGRAPHS

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Synopsis

This volume accompanies the first major solo exhibition on American artist Paul Chan (born 1973) since his series The 7 Lights was presented at the New Museum in 2008. Chan is one of the most versatile and unpredictable artists of his generation, and certainly one of the most original voices in contemporary art today. Active as artist, writer and publisher, he engages the viewer in a challenging discourse about the place of art in social and political life. Chan's combination of old and new works casts new light on the content and complexity of his fascinating art. In addition to early video installations, rarely seen works on paper, sculptures and works from the 7 Lights series, this volume includes reproductions of the 1,005 painted book covers that constitute Volumes (2012), and new works created for the exhibition.

Review

Chan's work presents the unlikely mash-up of the famously reclusive Chicago 'outsider' artist and the nineteenth-century French social theorist, set to a sound track of Jay-Z and Bach.

"Selcted Works" left few stones unturned. (Jacob Proctor Artforum)