Simryn Gill, De (hemi)cyclus van bladeren en papier
Subtitle: L'(hémi)cycle de feuilles et papier = The (hemi)cycle of leaves and paper
By: Catherine de Zegher
Contributors: Gill, Simryn, 1959-; Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten (Belgium)
Publisher: Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Ghent
Language: dut; fre; eng
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9789081180894
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Exhibitions; Mixed media (Art); Leaves in art; Paper art
Other titles: (Hemi)cyclus van bladeren en papier; (Hémi)cycle de feuilles et papier; (Hemi)cycle of leaves and paper
Description: In 2012, Simryn Gill (Malaysia, 1959) gave one of her major works to the MSK, comprising 12 panels with work on paper called Let Go, Lets Go. To honor this gift, it will be presented to the public, accompanied by a book containing an essay by Jan Braet and Catherine de Zegher. Educated in India and the United Kingdom, Gill works in sculpture, photography, drawing, and writing. She is a systematic collector, especially of books as objects of reverence and dispute. Several of her projects involve erasing or excising the printed word in a microcosmic struggle with authority as embodied by canonical texts. In Pearls (2000? ), for example, she turns beloved volumes into paper pulp beads. Gill is a tinkerer, altering mundane objects and sites via poetically critical sleight of hand. She aggregates her modest interventions into encyclopedic series comprised of dozens of components, in which the smallest gestures ? often repeated or expanded ? generate resounding statements.00Exhibition: Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, Belgium (22.04.2016-04.09.2016).
Notes: "This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition The (hemi)cycle of leaves and paper in the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, 22.04.16-04.09.16."-Colophon.

Special cover: 4 small holes go through cover and text block.

Text in Dutch, French and English.
Table of contents: title: The artist as a peculiar insect  -- Catherine de Zegher -- (7-17); title: Social insects, 2012  -- Catherine de Zegher -- (18-21); title: Let go, lets go, 2013  -- Catherine de Zegher -- (22-33); title: Forest, 1996-1998  -- Catherine de Zegher -- (34-39); title: Vegetation, 1999-2016  -- Catherine de Zegher -- (40-45); title: Tasha and the tree, 2005, 2013  -- Catherine de Zegher -- (46-53); title: Nine volumes from the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, 2008-2009  -- Catherine de Zegher -- (54-55); title: Egg drawings, 2014-2016  -- Catherine de Zegher -- (56-73) -- Like leaves, 2014 / -- Catherine de Zegher -- (74-75); title: Domino theory, 2014  -- Catherine de Zegher -- (77-85); title: Into the rainforest with Simryn Gill: Jan Braet in conversation with Simryn Gill-- (87-95)