Rumors and murmurs
Subtitle: Martin Beck
By: edited by Matthias Michalka ; concept: Martin Beck ; texts: Vince Aletti [and six others]
Contributors: Museum Moderner Kunst (Austria)
Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Köln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9783960981381; 9783902947406
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Exhibitions; Art; Exhibition techniques; Design; Space (Architecture); Philosophy
Description: With 'Rumors and murmurs', mumok is presenting a comprehensive solo exhibition by artist Martin Beck, who lives in New York and Vienna. This show brings together works from the last ten years and also several new works specially made for the occasion. It includes sculptures, photographs, video works, drawings, books, and installations in the exhibition space that address questions of display and strategies of showing, memory, collectivity, and the themes of creating and finding images. An important early set of works by Martin Beck refers to modern exhibition systems and their relationship to empowerment and control. His video installation About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe, for example, in which he reconstructed a 1940s presentation system, reflects the avant-garde demand for a light touch and broad dissemination of information while also illustrating the reorganization of work in modern capitalism. Exhibition: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria (06.05.-03.09.2017).
Notes: Contains no title page, title from box.

Catalog consists of 9 stapled booklets (eight 31 x 23 cm, and one 23 x 16 cm), continuously paginated, which are the authored portions of the catalog. Interspersed throughout are 9 other contributions, each of a different format and measurement, which are dedicated to one of the artist's works. All are housed in a clamshell box.

Artist works: Strategy Notebook (3 color sheets, 28 x 22 cm.); Last Night (1 folded sheet, 46 x 61 cm. unfolded); We dismantle abandoned bridges ... The First Five Years (1 stapled booklet, 15 x 23 cm.); Rumors and Murmurs (1 accordian folded sheet, 28 x 22 cm. folded); Strategy Notebook (2 color sheets, 28 x 22 cm.); The Details Are Not the Details (1 booklet, 23 x 31 cm.); Flowers (1 booklet with folded pages, 31 x 23 cm.); Working Forwards (1 folded sheet with 16 sheets (16 x 22 cm.), Antonio Canova ... (1 sheet, 23 x 31 cm).

"Works in the exhibition, exhibition photographs" consists of one booklet with 3 loose sheets laid in.

Issued in clamshell box (31 cm.).

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held May 5-September 3, 2017 at mumok, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien.

"A German edition is also published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The conjunction of Martin Beck  -- Julie Ault; title: Strategy Notebook --; title: "Ain't no stopping us now"  -- Vince Aletti; title: The art of turning  -- Christian Höller; title: Last Night --; title: History and love, pleasure and time  -- Martin Beck; title: We dismantle abandoned bridges ... The First Five Years --; title: Rumors and Murmurs (Polygon) --; title: "How to almost break out of prison"  -- Felicity D. Scott; title: Exhibition walkthrough  -- Jeannine Tang; title: Strategy Notebook --; title: Works in the exhibitions, exhibition photographs --; title: The Details Are Not the Details --; title: Exhibitions  -- Klaus Franck; title: Systematic freedom or: "The artist in social communication"  -- Matthias Michalka; title: Flowers --; title: Authors --; title: Working Forwards --; title: Antonio Canova, Amor and Psyche, Plaster Model, Late 18th Century, Gipsoteca Museo Canova, Possagno, Italy.