Live or die
Subtitle: Philippe Vandenberg and Bruce Nauman
Publisher: Hannibal; Cannibal Publishing
Published: 2017
Place of publication: [Lichtervelde]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
ISBN-13: 9789492677006
Subjects: Exhibitions; Modern Painting; Conceptual art
Other titles: Philippe Vandenberg and Bruce Nauman
Description: "This publication combines the works of Belgian artist Philippe Vandenberg (1952-2009) and American artist Bruce Nauman (b. 1941). At first, it may seem startling to see Nauman's small but dense selection of works alongside those by Vandenberg. The artists never met one another and they could not be more different in their choice of artistic media. And yet there's something that links the oeuvre of these apparently divergent artists. This publication examines that extraordinary link. The art of both Vandenberg and Nauman is direct, uncompromising and distressing. They share a common attitude towards their artistic practices. Their works are raw and uncouth, finished just to the point where they enter the onlooker's consciousness as a kind of prelude or genesis to something." Exhibition: Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium (30.03. - 21.05.2017).
Notes: "This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Live or die at Gallery Sofie de Velde, Anwerp, 2017"-- Colophon.
Table of contents: title: Live or die / Brigitte Kölle; title: Normal and other miseries / John C. Welchman; title: Sundry sunderings / Anna Dezeuze; title: Works I / Phillippe Vanderberg, Bruce Nauman; title: Between necessity and despair / Philippe Vandenberg in conversation with Bernard Dewulf; title: You never see it coming / Bruce Nauman in conversation with Joan Simon; title: Works II / Phillippe Vanderberg, Bruce Nauman.