Christopher Wool

This book throws the recent developments in the work of American artist Christopher Wool into sharp focus. Eleven paintings and large-format silkscreens from 2007 that were exhibited together at Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin are presented on beautiful tip-in color plates that reveal all the richness of nuances in an oeuvre which has become ever more subtle, ever more painterly. This is abstract art that no longer has anything to do with denial, as Friedrich Meschede writes in his essay: "If I should attempt to describe it through language, it seems to me that Christopher Wool wants to give expression to the nothingness before nothing, and to do so exclusively through the pictorial means of the elementally visible, with no terms attached. Christopher Wool neither insists on nor attacks anything. What he does attempt is to re-think the terms you arrive at when viewing his pictures."… (mehr)

Artist's book / exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held February 16 - April 7, 1991, at Museum Boijmans - van Beuningen. Traveled to Kunstverein Köln, April 27 - June 16, 1991. The first catalogue includes images of Wool's work as arranged by the artist in faux color photocopies. Second volume is entirely text based and includes a brief forward by Wim Crouwel and Marianne Stockebrand, an "Outline for a book on Christopher Wool" by Glenn O'Brien, a biography of the artist, and a bibliography.… (mehr)

First edition, first printing. Soft cover. Printed wrappers; no dust jacket as issued. Unbound, folded sheets collated to form a booklet, each page reproducing a insitu photographs of Wool's work first in black-and-white, then in blue-and-white. Mixed-media works by Christopher Wool. Designed by Christopher Wool and Hans Werner Holzwarth. Unpaginated (96 pp.), with 48 black-and-white and blue-and-white plates. 11 x 8-3/4 inches. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Camden Arts Centre, London).… (mehr)