IAN WALLACE

A Literature of Images

Vanessa Joan Müller, Beatrix Ruf, and Nicolaus Schafhausen

This is the first extensive survey catalogue on the work of Vancouver-based artist Ian Wallace – a seminal figure in Vancouver’s fertile 1970s art scene, a teacher who taught the first generation of the Vancouver School of photo-conceptualism. He inspired superstars such as Jeff Wall, Rodney Graham, and Stan Douglas. Wallace, a pioneer and theorist of photo-conceptualism, was energized by the dialectic tensions between monochrome painting and documentary or staged photography, exploring the emblematic sites of street, studio, and nature. A beautifully designed, oversized book on this vanguard artist, including excellent interpretive texts, extensive color reproductions, catalogue of exhibited works, a chronology, thorough bibliographic information, and an informative interview with Wallace by Renske Janssen.

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KLAUS WEBER

Secession

Klaus Weber’s work presents the natural world being made to behave in unusual ways: a cloudburst follows a moving car on a sunny day; an ordinary vacuum cleaner summons a small tornado; mushrooms push up through tarmac. This slim but comprehensive catalog documents for the first time Austrian installation artist’s body of work and reveals an intervention in the spaces that dominate our “advanced” cities. Includes color and black-and-white photographs; texts by András Pálffy, Alex Farquharson, Clemens Krümmel, and the artist; and a pull-out insert to illustrate the spectacular effect of a heliostatic (sun-gathering) mirror that Weber installed at the 2008 Vienna Secession exhibit.

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