Deterioration : They Said (English/German)

Edited by Raphael Gygax. Texts by Thomas Beard, Raphael Gygax, Ed Halter. Published with the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich.

ISBN 10: 3037640766 / ISBN 13: 9783037640760

Published by JRP | Ringier / Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 2009

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Z : 21,5 x 29,1 cm, hardcover, cloth binding, 92 Seiten/pages, 150 color & 37 b/w illustrations - The art of de(con)struction. American artists Cory Arcangel, Jessica Ciocci & Jacob Ciocci/Paper Rad, Shana Moulton, and Ryan Trecartin & Lizzie Fitch, have been brought together in this publication. In their works the artists create an overwhelming, color-charged aesthetic with an excessive density of content, reacting to the consumer-oriented condition of Western society. In their image-spaces the four collaborations address a culture of excess, constructing their critique via a form of appropriation, which simultaneously releases a veritable deluge of images. In the tradition of experimental film and Scatter art they probe potential unconventional narrative patterns and test for the disintegration of stereotypes. As a result, the video works are often shown in sculptural settings, in which fragments of pop culture and handcrafted forms are amalgamated into an multimedia Gesamtkunstwerk.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1592898575923

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Deterioration : They Said (English/German)
• Publisher: JRP | Ringier / Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3037640766
• ISBN 13: 9783037640760
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Seller catalogs:
  • Design
  • Drawing
  • Contemporary art

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Synopsis

The works of young American artists Cory Arcangel, Shana Moulton, Jessica Ciocci & Jacob Ciocci of Paper Rad, and Ryan Trecartin & Lizzie Fitch are all characterized by an overwhelming color-charged aesthetic, unhinged narratives and a deluge of content that pitches itself against the excesses of consumer culture. Brought together for this publication, their works define a new idiom of energetic critique.