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Merlin Carpenter: Midcareer Paintings
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Series: Sternberg Press
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ISBN13: 9783956793127
Publisher: Sternberg Pr
Published: Apr 7 2017
Pages: 144
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.60 Width: 9.60 Depth: 11.20
Language: English
Merlin Carpenter's 2015 exhibition MIDCAREER PAINTINGS filled the Kunsthalle Bern's seven rooms with twenty-two transit blankets hung on the wall, pulled like canvas around identically scaled stretcher frames. The transit blankets are the kind used to pack fragile goods. Inexpensive and disposable, they are manufactured from recycled materials, compressed into an insulating sheet used to preserve prized surfaces and materials more valuable than themselves. Each work in the show was post-dated to 2016, despite the exhibition's opening date in September of the previous year. The works were titled after one of the Shepperton-based artist's seven galleries, and were prominently displayed as not for sale.
The transit-blanket works are documented in the second half of this publication, the cover of which is embossed with each location of Carpenter's seven galleries--New York, London, Los Angeles, Brussels, Berlin, Miami, Lisboa/Porto. The first half is composed of a black-and-white image feed, resembling collaged photocopies, of photos of the show's installation, related gallery shows, and billboards advertising the show that displayed classic mid-to-late century consumer goods.
In addition, texts by Kunsthalle Bern director Valérie Knoll and artist Sam Lewitt examine the materiality of Carpenter's works, the particular mix of playfulness and earnestness in his artistic output, and how the paintings thematize the limbo of the midcareer artist as well as the circulation of the artwork as a commodity that signifies material wealth or value.
Contributors
Valérie Knoll, Sam Lewitt
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