Prefaces and Appendices
By: Jordan Tate
Publisher: Lodret Vandret
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Kopenhagen]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9788792988188
Subjects: Artists' books; Photography of interiors; Photocollage
Other titles: Prefaces; Appendices; Prefaces :
Description: Prefaces and Appendices, together, constitute an artist's book by Jordan Tate. Prefaces is driven by the potential of the unrealised. At first glance, Tate appears to have one of the strongest exhibition histories of any contemporary artist. It boasts installation shots of the Swiss Institute in New York, Pilar Corrias Gallery in London, Wiels in Brussels and even immaculate depictions of his work hanging in the Guggenheim. This is all artifice. These images are Tate's latest body of work titled Prefaces. For this series, he has constructed various works and then taken on the role of curator and created exhibitions. While composed solely in digital space, they read as pristine installation documentation, taken in physical space. In these photographs, light veils of shadow fall on perfect white walls and mirage-like reflections spread across high-shine gallery floors. Tate harnesses the power of the white cube as a validation, as a signifier of what is art of value. - Justine Ludwig.
Notes: Edition of 300.
Table of contents: title: The publication includes essays by a select group of curators, directors and artists that all respond to and/or contextualise Tate's work: Amalie Smith; title: - Lap Le; title: Brendan Embser Wattenberg; title: Nicholas O'Brien; title: Stephanie Sadre-Orafai; title: Cori Kirsch; title: Tim Davis; title: Rick Silva; title: Abigail Susik; title: Justine Ludwig.