Tacita Dean - Base Matter and Uncommon Solvent: Drawings, Prints, Collages, and Objects 1988–2024 Edition:Unsigned

Tacita Dean - Base Matter and Uncommon Solvent: Drawings, Prints, Collages, and Objects 1988–2024 Edition:UnsignedMACK 2024 Base Matter and Uncommon Solvent is an overdue comprehensive survey of drawings, prints, collages, and objects that are directly drawn, marked, or altered by Tacita Dean. The chosen works differentiate from those made using mechanical reproduction, such as photographs, purely image based etching and screenprints, and her 16mm and 35mm films. The careful collation of works in the book, including many early or previously unseen images, show

black and white photographs

Richard Avedon

framed by a lacy spray of blood in a Barcelona toilet

Tired of the mystical thinking and emotionalism that had underscored Bay Area photography since the 1940s

Book Design: Gösta Flemming

The works show

He followed the idea that there is also and particularly in landscape photography

American critic and curator Vince Aletti has been collecting photographs printed on the pages of magazines and books since the 1970s

For the public

Lawson’s photographs are made in collaboration with her subjects

Using a thermal video camera intended for long-range border enforcement

Thomas Demand’s work lures the viewer into a reality that is not what it appears to be