Dan Perfect

English artist Dan Perfect, one critic once wrote, leaves the viewer “with feelings of either repulsion or harmony.” Either way, Perfect makes an indelible impression, and this exhibition catalog highlights his most recent work. Perfect’s paintings amount to a vibrant and energetic meeting of concrete and equivocal forms, conjuring busy imagery that represents memory, dreams, foliage, animals and even religious iconography. The end result has been called manic, but Perfect’s visual chaos is not without order. Perfect’s abstraction is inspiring and unforgettable throughout these 48 pages.

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BEN LALOUA / DIDIER PASCAL

It Was The Moment She Finally Snapped…Rehab

This striking artists’ book uses the most overexposed photos of the moment’s most overexposed celebrities heading for rehab – Paris, Britney and Pete (last names unnecessary) – and transforms them into eye-popping, black-and-white drawings superimposed with the breathless texts beloved by tabloids and fan mags. Through the iconography of these pictures, artists Ben Laloua and Didier Pascal raise essential questions about the priorities of today’s mass media, and the power and influence it wields over us. Whoever thinks that the media offers us a window on the world, the artists imply, has lost his grip on reality. In an extremely limited edition, this book is truly a collector’s treasure.

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