John Knight: Quiet Quality (Cabinet London)

John Knight, Ray McKenzie, Pedro de Llano

Published by Cabinet, London, 2013

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John Knight Cabinet London 2013 Texts by Ray Mckenzie and Pedro de Llano Soft cover 20cm x 23 cm, 25pp 14 colour and 26 b&w plates Layout and typesetting in Bembo Translation Martin Dale Printed by Donahue Printing , Los Angeles Design JBMT Edition of 1000 copies This catalogue has been printed in relation to the exhibition Quiet Quality, which took took place in two sites, Cabinet Gallery London London 10 October 17 November 2012 and the Frieze Art Fair London 11 14 October 2012 The format of the book is consistent with the open ended series which the artist initiated in 1986, and of which to date approximately ten have been published. They are in many ways conspicuously all the same. Nine-by-eight-inch, staple bound, with white covers bearing the title of whatever project they encapsulate and typically featuring a die-cut hole as their cover design, which reveals an image beneath. The inside covers are printed with a repeating logo pattern, which also refers specifically to the hosting institution or to another aspect of the project. The internal structure, too, is consistent. The font used is Times Roman or more recently Bembo, and the content is organized into a title page, a list of acknowledgments often in reverse alphabetical order (Z-A), an introductory text, and one or more critical essays on your work accompanying reproductions of both past and current projects. At the end is a very short biography listing only the year or city of your birth (1945, Los Angeles or Hollywood) and where you are currently residing. Then, conspicuously, you never list your exhibition history, but instead offer a "Selected Bibliography" of articles and essays about your work. Seeing any one of these catalogs on its own, the design is innocuous enough that all these particularities recede beneath the informative capability of the catalog, but after twenty-plus years, this consistency is quite striking. Anyone even remotely familiar with your working methods can assume that this repetition of uniformity is anything but arbitrary. Jay Sanders. From a conversation with the artist entitled Jay Sanders Reads John Knight originally published in Parkett 86 2009, and included in October Files 16. All books are sent signed and tracked. Seller Inventory # ABE-14285836873

Bibliographic Details

Title: John Knight: Quiet Quality (Cabinet London)

Publisher: Cabinet, London

Publication Date: 2013

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: 1st Edition