Legend

Alexis Vaillant

The idea of a legend – a larger-than-life fable, a marvelous story – seems like a thing of the past in our 24/7, instant-everything world. But for the 2008 Legend exhibition in France, a group of 30 international artists took a look at how human beings still create intensified visions of the world, legends for the present day. This companion book to the exhibition features recent works by David Altmejd, Peter Coffin, Anne Collier, Jason Meadows, Pae White, Lisa Yuskavage, and many others. Texts by Jean-Philippe Antoine, Craig Buckley, Yoann Gourmel and Raimundas Malasauskas that expand on the meaning of a legend, which traditionally is based on secrets, lies and – often – truth.

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OTRA DE VAQUEROS

Documenting a residency and exhibition project that took place in Mexico City in 2007, this book shows how a group of artists in Mexico and from abroad examined how contemporary issues set the context in which art happens. With stories, statements, tales, questionnaires, jokes, instructions, letters and notes that were written by the 16 participant artists, the reader comes to see and understand how the cultural, political, and social debris of the modern Western world can be used to engage in and create artwork. We can remodel our entire notion of culture and its contemporary avatars.

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