PUBLISHER
Ridinghouse

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 11.13 x 12.34 in. / 48 pgs / 25 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 10/1/2014
Out of print

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
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PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9781905464999 TRADE
List Price: $22.00 CAD $29.95

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Glenn Ligon: Come Out

Text by Megan Ratner.

American artist Glenn Ligon’s latest monumental screen-printed paintings draw upon Minimalist composer Steve Reich’s taped-speech work Come Out.

Ligon’s series recontextualises the phrase ‘Come out to show them’ from the testimony of one of the badly beaten Harlem Six, which Reich isolated for his 1966 work. Whilst Reich repeats the refrain on two channels that gradually become out of sync, Ligon continually superimposes the words onto the canvas to form densely layered landscapes of text. Echoing Reich's music, the artist increases the number of silkscreen layers in each painting until the words verge on abstraction.

Bringing together illustrations of new studies and paintings originally exhibited at Thomas Dane Gallery, London, an essay by Megan Ratner examines the relationship between the paintings, the phrase and history.