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Christopher Wool
Holzwarth Publications 2018 ISBN 9783947127023 Acqn 28349
Pb 22x28cm 56pp 36ills 26col £26.50

Each new Christopher Wool exhibition digs deeper into methods established and questions
raised by his work. His approach revolves around repetition, erasure, and layering, focusing on
essential elements like form, line, and colour. Motifs are varied or earlier works reused, printed,
and over painted again. Wool shapes and reshapes the form almost like a sculptor kneading clay.
As a subtle gesture, a small sculpture stands as the centrepiece of this 2017 exhibition at Galerie
Max Hetzler in Berlin, made from pigmented concrete as a barely shaped torso. Around it, Wool
presents works on paper and large-sized paintings: a portfolio of lithographs titled Portraits (red),
whose central reddish mass is laid out flat in Ben-Day dots; another lithograph series titled a.k.a.
that uses lettering within lines as a means of composition; small silkscreen prints heavily over
painted with rough brushstrokes; and huge canvases in rich shades of black that congeal into
forms from the artist's early Rorschach series. The book presents images of all works along with
black-and-white installation views photographed by the artist himself. It is wrapped in a dust
jacket that unfolded reveals a poster designed by Wool specifically for the exhibition.

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Richard Prince - Super Group

Holzwarth Publications 2018 ISBN 9783947127016 Acqn 28350
Hb 21x36cm 92pp 63col ills £39.50

While Richard Prince is most often discussed for his strategies as an appropriation artist-from
Marlboro cowboys in the 1980s to Instagram portraits today-it is his own work as a painter that
stands at the centre of his approach: starting with paintings of jokes and cartoons, following up
with, among other things, nurses and cowboys taken from the covers of dime novels, and
freewheeling riffs on Picasso and de Kooning. For his extensive new series Super Group, Prince
uses objects loaded with meaning: the inner sleeves of vinyl records, which he collages on the
canvas and then over paints with band names, abstract washes, and funny figures. The book
shows 51 works, engaging with questions of our identity-after all, we define ourselves by the
music we listen to. In two texts the artist explores the cultural ramifications and shares the joy of
discovery: "I'd been working with sleeves on and off for four years, they weren't right, they weren't
finished. They didn't have extra extra. They had a verse and bridge but they didn't have a hook.
Super Group became the hook. I can stack Roy Orbison, Chuck D, Bill Evans, Patsy Cline, The
Pretenders, and Lee Ranaldo on one sleeve . . . The whole sleeve can be a hit." Accordingly, this
whole volume can be a hit, translating Prince's vision through images and texts into an artist's
book.

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Gunther Forg - Forty Drawings 1993

Holzwarth Publications 2018 ISBN 9783947127054 Acqn 28135
Hb 30x42cm 88pp 40col ills £105

In these forty works on paper made in 1993, we can observe how Gunther Forg gradually
constructs his artistic thoughts. The compositions focus on clearly formulated ideas, while in their
lively and spontaneous execution the artist's hand comes to the fore-not by coincidence the hand
is also a recurring motif in these works. Some of the pages feature crosshatchings, squares, and
vertical slashes opening up the picture ground, looking like possible preparatory sketches for later
paintings. Other pages are more casual, random thoughts in which figurative elements can be
discerned: heads, globes, knees, mountains, and again hands. This book, published in an edition
limited to 300 copies, introduces us to these drawings compiled as a series by Forg and
reproduced in their original format-allowing us to meet an artist who uses the tensions between
abstraction and figuration, geometry and spontaneity with a virtuoso directness.

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