SEMINA NO. 3: MARK WAUGH

Bubble Entendre

Brazen sadists, high-flying hopheads, invisible strippers, and the destiny of objects are just some of the themes tackled by Mark Waugh in Bubble Entendre-a three-part, literary bender that moves from a pornographic terrorist siege in the luxury London hotel Claridge’s, to the transgressions of a bubblegum-addicted zombie author, and the sex life of a rubber doll who reads too much Derrida. It’s all dirty, dingy, and drug-fuelled, as if Wilhelm Reich wrote it after being force-fed LSD and subjected to a steady diet of dubstep and grime. One of the latest works from the Semina series, which publishes contemporary artists and writers willing to take risks with their prose.

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Mark Sheinkman

Wisps of smoke? Clouds? Woven threads? An unknown species of jellyfish? New York artist Mark Sheinkman’s romantic, mysterious and delicate drawings are the focus of this catalog from his first European solo exhibition. To create these dramatic works of art, Sheinkman applies graphite powder to the ground and rubs it into the completely black surface until the white plumes appear chiselled out of the darkness of the paper, in a mesmerizing filigree effect. The drawings, some as large as six feet across, inspired curator Ulrike Schick to write that Sheinkman “describes time through space … the fleetingness of a moment that is captured without becoming rigid.” Photos include the gallery installation from the museum show.

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