Thursday, December 09, 2010

Peter Robinson - Ack and Other Abdications

Clouds and Artspace announce a new publication:


Available: January 2011
ISBN: 978-0-9582981-0-0
Softcover - 164 pages
Edition: 1000
Dimensions: 171 x 240 mm
RRP - NZD$49.95

Ack and Other Abdications documents and considers the life of one sculpture, Ack – at once vast ice-flow and intestine that appeared first at Artspace in Auckland in 2006, was reworked for the Auckland Art Gallery in 2008, a showing that won the artist the Walters Prize.

The bulk of this 164-page book is devoted to full-colour documentation of the sculpture in its various iterations and the body of the unexhibited paintings. The remainder features writing by Dan Arps, Matthew Crookes, Fiona Gilmore and John Ward-Knox, Gwynneth Porter and Laura Preston. The writing considers the sculpture at a temporal remove and considers its gross materiality and its abdications in the context of his wider practice.

Ack and Other Abdications is published by Clouds and Artspace. It is distributed in New Zealand and Australia by Clouds and will be available from selected bookshops and http://www.clouds.co.nz/, for $49.95 (includes GST).
Please see our website for international distribution partners.
For further information visit:
http://www.clouds.co.nz/peter-robinson-ack-and-other-abdications/

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