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Title: |
Road Back to Relevance |
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| By (author): |
Dan Rees Text by: Dieter Roelstraete, Saim Demircan, Ben Gregory |
| ISBN10-13: |
8867492179 : 9788867492176 |
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Paperback |
| Pages: |
144 |
| Weight: |
.516 Kg. |
| Published: |
Mousse Publishing - March 2017 |
| List Price: |
24.00 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
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| Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Nomas Foundation, Rome, Road Back to Relevance gives insight into the last decade of Dan Reesâ s (b. Swansea, UK, 1982) practice. It brings together groups of worksâ paintings, videos, installations, and photographyâ that have never before been viewed simultaneously, and reveals the complex nature of the artistâ s research. The title refers to a slide presentation made by the artist in collaboration with an advertising strategist and designer that, by charting the course of a specific solidarity campaign between Wales and Nicaragua started in the 1980s, questions how pre-â clicktivistâ modes of social engagement, activism, and international solidarity can remain relevant today. As Dieter Roelstraete writes in his essay contribution: â The work of Dan Rees touches upon a wide range of topics, subjects, and issues, but one dominant, recurring preoccupation doubtlessly concerns the politics of taste. â Tasteâ â its cultural corollaries, its political over- and undertones, and most importantly its social sourcesâ is one of Reesâ s preferred problems. And where it is addressed most directly and unapologeticallyâ that is to say, in the so-called Artex paintingsâ is exactly where his work becomes most willingly, egregiously â problematic. â â Texts by Dieter Roelstraete, Saim Demircan, Ben Gregory? |
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