PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 208 pgs / 81 color / 70 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 2/1/2006
Out of print

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2006 p. 124

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9783775716741 TRADE
List Price: $48.00 CAD $60.00

AVAILABILITY
Not available

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Simon Starling: Cuttings

Edited by Philipp Kaiser. Essays by Daniel Kurjakovic and Reid Shier.

Simon Starling is part of a young generation of conceptual artists whose work is more concerned with narrative than their predecessors' has been. Pieces like Inverted Retrograde Theme, USA (House for a Songbird), which shrinks scale models of modular concrete homes into birdhouses on slim wood supports, investigate modernistic design objects, materials and concepts that exemplify the prevailing ideologies and production factors of specific regions, cultures, and generations. By breaking down his source material and transforming it, Starling writes a new chapter in its history while raising questions about complex cultural and aesthetic phenomena of our time. Cuttings is an unprecedented overview of his work, and is literally cut away itself, with pages trimmed into different lengths in different sections to delineate coverage of 2005 projects, including those for a first survey exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel; previous works listed from A to Z; and several texts, including two essays and an interview.