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The original ink drawing is present on page 13. Internet: "Marker or pen in hand, Benoit Plateus captures the small events of his everyday life or sudden ideas which could become works. Benoit Plateus (born in 1972, Chenee, lives and works in Brussels), winner of the "Young Belgian Painting' in 2003, is one of the most important Belgian artists of his generation. His work doesn't neglect any medium -- photography, video, drawing or sculpture -- in order to search for ambiguities in the most mundane field of visibility. Restless observer, precise, discrete and malicious, Benoit Plateus introduces a distance between objects and their perception in order to shift them to the other side, in a space with variable dimensions and multiple interpretations." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Wikipedia: Matt Mullican (born September 18, 1951 in Santa Monica, California) is an American artist and son of artists Lee Mullican and Luchita Hurtado. Mullican received his BFA from CalArts in 1974, and rose to prominence as a member of the "Pictures Generation" along with such artists as Troy Brauntuch, Jack Goldstein, David Salle, James Welling, Sherrie Levine, Cindy Sherman, Louise Lawler, Richard Prince and Robert Longo. His work is concerned with systems of knowledge, meaning, language, and signification. Mullican also works with the relationship between perception and reality, between the ability to see something and the ability to represent it.Mullican's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally since the early 1970s at venues including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany, the National Galerie, Berlin, Germany, the Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, Netherlands, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, and The Museum of...