"Book ends." Exhibition
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At James Fuentes LLC
Media: Prints, Other, Installation
James Fuentes LLC presents Book ends., featuring Ben Berlow, Marc Handelman, Matthew Higgs, Larissa Nowicki, Stephen G. Rhodes and Richard Wentworth.
The exhibition will consist of work that dynamically employs printed books as art material. As readers replace traditional books with digital formats, the dwindling reliance on the physical book form coupled with the simultaneous surplus of accumulating printed matter results in a crisis state for this millennial- aged tool. The works in Book ends. explore the medium of the book, acting to preserve and amplify the inherent qualities that books possess. The level of intervention ranges from direct appropriation from books in the work of Higgs, Berlow and Handelman, to assemblage-oriented works by Rhodes and Wenworth, and finally to elaborate “weavings” by Nowicki, who intertwines shredded book pages to fracture and re-arrange meanings.
[Image: Marc Handelman "Wustenlandschaft (Desert Landscape)" (2009) Linen book cover 15 x 11 1/8 in.]
Schedule
From 2010-03-04 To 2010-03-28
Opening Reception on 2010-03-05 from 18:00 to 20:00
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