Shop > Artists' Books

Out of Stock
#05092

Secret Societies

Date
2011
Publisher
CAPC Musee d'Art Contemp.
Format
Artists' Books
Details
Softcover
Size
22 × 30 × 2.5 cm
Length
256 
Description

The Jesuits, Rosicrucians, freemasons, CIA, Mafia, IRA and al-Qaeda are all secret societies, covertly working away behind the scenes to create a world they envision, be it good or evil. The concept behind this exhibition, and its accompanying catalog, is that the contemporary art world is also a secret society, with a small circle of initiated members who possess arcane knowledge. In absorbing essays, Michael Bracewell, Ina Blom and Gary Lachman look at how the contemporary art economy is its own exclusive club. A large selection of artworks chosen by curators Cristina Ricupero, Alexis Vaillant and Jan Verwoert responds to the theme.

With works by Kenneth Anger, Art & Language, Jenny Holzer, Karl Holmqvist, Jonathan Horowitz, Elad Lassry, Cerith Wyn Evans, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Lisa Yuskavage, Tobias Zielony, and others.

  1. Secret Societies
 

Related Items

  1. Terence Koh and Andrew Zealley: A Beaver Tail (bookwork)
  2. Illusory Self #2
  3. Johannes Wohnseifer: A Secret Show in a Secret Place
  4. Ronald Philapson: Secret Word is Hype
  5. John Bride: Illusory Self #5
  6. Secret Life
  7. Édouard Glissant and Hans Ulrich Obrist: Archipelago
  8. Daryl Vocat: In the Night No One Can Spy
  9. Jalal Toufic: Reading, Rewriting Poe’s “The Oval Portrait“
  10. Alex Cecchetti: A Society That Breathes Once a Year
  11. Keren Cytter: D.I.E. Now The True Story of John Webber and His Endless Struggle with the Table of Content
  12. Again, A Time Machine: From Distribution to Archive
  13. LIBERTIES OF THE SAVOY by Ruth Ewan
  14. PRE-ENACTMENTS
  15. The What If?... Scenario (after LG)
  16. Tobias Spichtig: Blue, Red, and Green
  17. Sarah Pierce: Sketches of Universal History Compiled from Several Authors
  18. Francesco Pedraglio: A man in a room spray-painting a fly… (or at least trying to…)
  19. J. Parker Valentine: Fiction
  20. Mark von Schlegell: Ickles, Etc.
  21. After Berkeley
  22. Vasarely Go Home
  23. Oliver Hartung: Syria Al-Assad
  24. Public Collectors
  25. Katrin Koffman: Ensembles Assembled: In Full Color
  26. Gerry Bibby: The Drumhead
  27. Sarah Tripp: You Are of Vital Importance
  28. Kevin Schmidt: EDM House
  29. Leander Schönweger: Die Nebel lichten sich/ The Fog Disperses
  30. Ines Lechleitner: The Imagines
  31. James Langdon: A School for Design Fiction
  32. Dénes Farkas: Evident in Advance
  33. Roman Signer: Slow Movement
  34. Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen: Playmates and Playboys at a Higher Level: J. V. Martin and the Situationist International
  35. Aaron Flint Jamison: Cascades
  36. Jill Magid: The Proposal
  37. Anna M. Szarflarski: Helen Major / A Documentary Account
  38. Jesus Days
  39. Thomas Mailaender: The Night Climbers of Cambridge