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The reviewer writes, " What the show conveys most decisively, though, is a poetic side of Mr. Camnizer's art. Various writers have compared his text-driven pieces to concrete poetry - a genre based on how words function visually, rather that verbally, and that takes the instability of language as a given. The artist himself rejects this reading, insisisting that he has no interest in poetry, even dislikes what he sees as its artificiality and penchant for ego-centered sentimentality." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents In an introductory essay, Stephen Bann writes that "artists like Willem Boshoff and Frederic Bruly Bouabre clearly demonstrate the fertility of language-based investigations on African soil: Boshoff prepared for his work with dictionaries by lengthy exercises in concrete poetry." Okwui Enwezor contributes an essay "Where, What, Who, When: A Few Notes on "African" Conceptualism." Bann adds that "Willem Boshoff's conceptual practice is an elaborate effort dedicated to the study of ignorance, that is, pushing to the point of dissolution the idea that the world is knowable. Imprisoned by South African authorities for his refusal to serve in the military (the micrographic work, Kleinpen I, was produced in prison as a way to maintain mental equilibrium)... Boshoff finds in obscure and obsolete words a way to construct a map that denies sight but empowers knowledge...His study of linguistics and Wittgensteinian philosophy led him to explore other ways of rendering words into pulsating...

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This is number 48 in the Drawing Papers series and was issued for Ferrari's exhibition at the Drawing Center. The drawings date from the 1960's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is a massive, profusely illustrated catalogue with extensive documentation. The WEB site of this exhibition states: The exhibition of Leon Ferrari is a retrospective one that includes fifty years of his work, from the beginnings, in 1954, until the present. It presents a sample of works of different periods with the purpose of unfolding the creative process of the artist. The exhibition does not include the totality of its works, but a selection of each series or creative moment. If in the retrospective exhibition of an artist a period of its work were eliminated, it would be being been clipping or censuring his production. Leon Ferrari is expressed in a poetic and controversial sense. His creations explore the possibilities of the plane, the space and the meaning with drawings, sculptures, collages, brailles and objects. In them, he uses metals, inks, pencils, engravings, heliografi­as, dummies, bottles, birds, fish, excrements, images, reliefs in brailles, videos. As much...

Scope and Contents This massive, profusely illustrated catalogue with extensive documentation is a reprint of Leon Ferrari retrospective catalogue of 2004 with additions to bring it up to 2006. The catalogue has been translated from Spanish into Portuguese and was edited by Andrea Giunta. It presents a sample of works of different periods with the purpose of unfolding the creative process of the artist. The exhibition does not include the totality of its works, but a selection of each series or creative moment. If in the retrospective exhibition of an artist a period of its work were eliminated, it would be being been clipping or censuring his production. Leon Ferrari is expressed in a poetic and controversial sense. His creations explore the possibilities of the plane, the space and the meaning with drawings, sculptures, collages, brailles and objects. In them, he uses metals, inks, pencils, engravings, heliografi­as, dummies, bottles, birds, fish, excrements, images, reliefs in brailles, videos....