Art Metropole is pleased to simultaneously launch three new books featuring the work of Luis Jacob: Towards a Theory of Impressionist and Expressionist Spectatorship (Kunstverein in Hamburg and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2009), 7 Pictures of Nothing Repeated Four Times, In Gratitude $55 - Purchase Now Album VII $60 - Purchase Now Please join us on Saturday October 17, from 1-3 p.m. to meet the artist. Towards a Theory of Impressionist and Expressionist Spectatorship is a major publication documenting Luis Jacob's works from 2002 to 2008, published on occasion of his exhibition at the Kunstverein in Hamburg in 2008. This 176-page full-colour publication features writings by Alan Antliff, Yilmaz Dziewior, John Russon, Jon Soske and Jon Davies, an artist statement, and two interviews with the artist conducted by Alan Antliff and Meike Behm. All texts are presented in English and German. This new publication is an important reference to Jacob's oeuvre, one that highlights questions of relationality, spectatorship, performativity, repetition, and theatricality in a variety of works produced in the past seven years. 7 Pictures of Nothing Repeated Four Times, In Gratitude was published on occasion of Luis Jacob's recent exhibition at the Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach. This 120-page full-colour publication documents two related projects: a cycle of works that refer to a suite of paintings by Mark Rothko from the Panza Collection, uncannily repeated and reconfigured four times; and a re-hanging of works from Museum Abteiberg's permanent collection, arranged by the artist in the manner of works from his "Album" series. Together, these projects reflect on the history of the monochrome and the impulse towards reductivism in modern art, as well as questions of artistic antecedence and originality. The publication features texts by the artist and Susanne Titz, presented in English and German. Album VII was published on occasion of the exhibition of Album VII at "Platform Seoul 2008". Published as part of a series of "Album" artist books, Album VII is presented as a hard-bound, full-colour oversize volume in an edition of 1000 copies. This work consists of hundreds of images culled from a variety of books, magazines, and other publications. Through processes of visual association, these images compose an extended narrative around various themes: embodiment and the capacities of our bodies; bodies becoming things, things becoming bodies; enclosure and exposure of bodies; the love and fear of holes, and our corporeal aperture to the world. Also available at Art Metropole, other titles from the "Album" series include: Album (Art Metropole and Latitude 53 Society of Artists, 2001); Album III (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2007); and Album V (Kultustiftung des Bundes, 2007). Luis Jacob is an artist and writer living in Toronto, Canada, and exhibiting internationally. Recent exhibitions include: “Images Recalled – Bilder auf Abruf” 3.Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen (Ludwigshafen, Germany); 7 Pictures of Nothing Repeated Four Times, in Gratitude, at Städtisches Museum Abteiberg (Mönchengladbach, Germany); New Entries!, Museion, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Bolzano, Italy); If We Can't Get It Together: Artists Rethinking the (Mal)Function of Communities, The Power Plant (Toronto, Canada); The Order of Things, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (Antwerp, Belgium); Martian Museum of Terrestial Art, Barbican Art Gallery (London, UK); documenta12 (Kassel, Germany); and Luis Jacob: Habitat, Kunstverein in Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany). Opening in March 2010, he will present his work in the exhibtion Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, USA). For more info contact Ann Dean (416) 703 4400 or info@artmetropole.com
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