Walead Beshty: Works in Exhibition 2011-2020

This volume, published for Beshty’s exhibition at Kunst Museum Winterthur, focuses on his recent output, presenting numerous works for the first time alongside his well-known photograms and Fed-Ex sculptures. New and classic pieces explore the art industry as a microsystem of capitalism: Beshty sees his works within the broader context in which they are produced, transported, installed, viewed and discussed. They are created to document their own genesis.The art of Los Angeles–based Walead Beshty (born 1976) is mostly geometrically abstract in form and industrially produced, evoking Minimalist art. They are conceived in such a way as to make visible the influences of the system in which the works also function: as a commodity, a carrier of meaning, a means of transport, a news archive, a fetish, an object of research.
ISBN 9783960987789. Walther Koenig. pb. 376 pages. 308 colour ills. 14 x 21 cm.
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