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Walead Beshty (Hardcover)
Walead Beshty; Text written by Walead Beshty, Francis Atterbury, Billie Temple, Carlo De Rita
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Walead Beshty is a carefully curated guide to key bodies of work by
the acclaimed conceptual artist presented in collaboration with
Thomas Dane Gallery in London, Turin and Naples. One of today’s
leading conceptual artists, Los Angeles-based Walead Beshty (b.
1976, London) works across photography, sculpture and words.
Beshty’s art is expansive and best described as an ongoing
conversation, to which this monograph is his next articulation.
Through a deconstructing lens, Walead Beshty explores every
exhibition and project the artist has presented in collaboration
with Thomas Dane Gallery in London, Turin and Naples. The monograph
offers a guide to some of the artist’s key bodies of work.
Uncovering processes is central to Beshty’s art. He deliberately
incorporated marks made by oxidation and human touch into his FedEx
copper works and Copper Surrogate works, as well as photographing
the many individuals involved in his exhibitions in Industrial
Portraits. The work that has gone into this substantial new
monograph, which features contributions from publisher Francis
Atterbury, book designer Billie Temple and Thomas Dane partner
Francois Chantala, is, quite literally, laid bare. Also presented
is an insightful essay by leading professor of Juridical Sociology
at Univer¬sity of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Carlo De Rita.
Adopting a semiotic approach to books as ‘not just a thing you
hold, but something held in common’, Walead Beshty embraces the
archetypal format, tropes and conventions of a traditional – if
unorthodox – book, employing printing and publishing practices
seldom seen in contemporary bookmaking. It reflects on what an
artist’s monograph might represent as it explores the
contingencies that allow art to function. Walead Beshty is itself
another carefully curated exhibition of his work.
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