Conceived by Atkins as an artist’s book, the main body is a collage of imagery, text, and graphical elements. Ed Atkins makes videos, draws, and writes, reflexively performing the ways in which contemporary modes of representation attempt to do justice to powerfully emotional experience. Atkins’ work is at once a disturbing diagnosis of a digitally mediated present day and an absurd prophecy of things to come. It is skeptical of the promises of technology yet suggests that it is possible to salvage subjectivity, suspending a hysterical sentimentality within the desperate lives of the surrogates he creates.
This catalog accompanies the exhibition that is developed as a collaboration between Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. With new essays by the editors and by Irene Calderoni and Chiara Vecchiarelli, the book is accompanied by a scholarly timeline and an anthology that includes a selection of the artist’s unpublished writings, plus critical writings by Kirsty Bell, Melissa Gronlund, Martin Herbert, Leslie Jamison, Joe Luna, Jeff Nagy, Mike Sperlinger, and Patrick Ward, together with interviews by Katie Guggenheim, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Beatrix Ruf, and Richard Whitby.
该目录伴随着由当代艺术博物馆和Sandretto Re Rebaudengo基金会合作开发的展览。编辑和艾琳·卡尔德罗尼和基亚拉·韦奇亚雷利的新文章,这本书附有一个学术时间表和一本选集,包括艺术家未发表的作品,加上柯斯蒂·贝尔、梅丽莎·格伦伦德、马丁·赫伯特、莱斯利·贾米森、乔·卢纳、杰夫·纳吉、迈克·斯珀林格和帕特里克·沃德的评论文章,以及凯蒂·古根海姆、汉斯·乌尔里希·奥布里斯特、比阿特丽克斯·鲁夫和理查德·惠特比的采访。
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