Helen Marten: Treatise of a Coat
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Author: Marten, Helen
Featuring coloured pencil, watercolour, ink, airbrush, acrylic and graphite, alongside other more unusual mediums like sand, silicone or olive oil, this book is a sumptuous visual document of the paper-based drawing and painting practice of British artist Helen Marten (born 1985). Designed as an “unruly” artist’s book, 'Treatise of a Coat' features multiple physical and linguistic folds. Its title conveys the homonymic similarities of the word “coat”: the literal jacket that is unfurled to expose the naked and unruly shame of human forms; the fur or hair of an animal; the verb function of “to coat” that intentionally builds up visual desire – the acts of lacquering, spreading, enclosing, flooding, directing, or husking that line and colour expedite when creating an image. In effect, the constituent materiality of this book is designed with the physicality of making a work on paper in mind.
ISBN 9783753309132. Walther König, Köln. pb. 392 pages. 259 colour, 5 b/w ills. 27.9 x 22.2 cm.
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Featuring coloured pencil, watercolour, ink, airbrush, acrylic and graphite, alongside other more unusual mediums like sand, silicone or olive oil, this book is a sumptuous visual document of the paper-based drawing and painting practice of British artist Helen Marten (born 1985). Designed as an “unruly” artist’s book, 'Treatise of a Coat' features multiple physical and linguistic folds. Its title conveys the homonymic similarities of the word “coat”: the literal jacket that is unfurled to expose the naked and unruly shame of human forms; the fur or hair of an animal; the verb function of “to coat” that intentionally builds up visual desire – the acts of lacquering, spreading, enclosing, flooding, directing, or husking that line and colour expedite when creating an image. In effect, the constituent materiality of this book is designed with the physicality of making a work on paper in mind.
ISBN 9783753309132. Walther König, Köln. pb. 392 pages. 259 colour, 5 b/w ills. 27.9 x 22.2 cm.
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