Adam Pendleton: Blackness, White, and Light

This catalogue, published on the occasion of the artist’s first comprehensive European solo exhibition, includes a selection of new works by New York-based artist Adam Pendleton in which he steps outside his usual black-and-white palette and uses colour for the first time. The book is brimming with illuminating texts, including essays penned by curator Marianne Dobner and the novelist Lynne Tillman, a poem by Simone White and an interview with the artist by critic Lauren O'Neill-Butler.Pendleton uses letters, words, drips, splashes, sprays and collected images as primary materials in his interdisciplinary practice, which spans painting, drawing, photography, film and more. Working across mediums, he blurs the boundaries between seeing and reading, between representation and abstraction. His oeuvre is informed by an ongoing interrogation of blackness, abstraction and the avant-garde, resulting in longform ambitious projects such as Black Dada.
ISBN 9783753303383. Walther Koenig. hb. 358 pages. 272 ills. 33 x 25 cm.
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