Mark Manders

A catalogue of the extensive retrospective exhibition ‘The Absence of Mark Manders’ at the Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht. The rooms in the exhibition can be regarded as the spaces of the artist’s ongoing work ‘Self-portrait as a building’. The works have been “left behind” by the artist in three different zones: the visitor enters a living room, then the museum, and finally the studio. According to Manders, all of these works are interchangeable and can be put into a different show more context, “like words in a sentence can also be used in different combinations”. A text by Douglas Fogle focuses on the role of language in Manders’s oeuvre. show less

Dutch artist Mark Manders - who will represent the Netherlands at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 - was awarded the Heineken Prize for Art 2012. The jury praised him "for his ability to create a personal world with a distinct visual language that both intrigues and becomes fixed in the memory." On the occasion of this award, Roma Publications compiled this almost encyclopedic book which covers Manders' entire oeuvre from the late 1980s until the present. It contains facsimiles of the show more artist's publications and a focus on a large number of recent, never-published works. show less

Book with a large number of isolated titles. One of the titles has been developed into a series of twelve colour photographs showing a complex installation: a coloured room with a black and white scene (p. 38-39). Edition 1000

https://www.markmanders.com/wikipedia-skiapode

This is a book about a single word: 'Skiapod'. What started with the task to take a single word out of all existing words, and to extend and change the meaning of that word, soon became a fascinating journey through our human history and our strange human minds. In this book you can see how an idea can travel through different periods, crystallize in different artists minds and freeze in various media. From cave drawings to a fax, from Malevich show more to Guston. The book also formulates questions: why do we need to create images and meaning? What do we try to grasp by creating an image of a mythical figure? Why do we need to do that? And exactly where can we find truth in the different chapters of this book? Does this book also say something about all other existing words? Shall we start making other books about other words? And what is the exact word for the blue printed on the cover of this book? Design: Mark Manders, Simon Bultynck, Roger Willems. show less