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Announcing PRODUCTS ARE THE NEW ART
An Exhibition of the Work of Ryan McGinness
Friday, November 22, 2002, 6 to 8 PM
Printed Matter, Inc.
535 West 22nd Street [between 10th and 11th Avenues]
New York, NY 10011
212 925 0325 tel
212 925 0464 fax
http://www.printedmatter.org
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Printed Matter is very pleased to announce Products Are the New
Art an
installation by Ryan McGinness. The exhibition opens with a reception on
Friday, November 22, 2002, from 6 to 8 PM, and continues until December
23, 2002. Showcasing a collection of McGinness books and products
from
the past few years, the exhibition also celebrates the release of new
work
and the unveiling of a site-specific mural, and banners that will
envelope
the walls of Printed Matter for the Holiday Season.
Ryan McGinness is an artist who has exhibited his work internationally
and
been responsible for blazing a trail through the gap between art and
design. By re-mixing and combining graphic vocabularies from a range of
sources, his work comments on the iconographic conventions of our
image-driven culture. His deft manipulation of visual codes gleefully
subverts the systems in which they operate. Vogue Magazine
recently
recognized him as "a leading pioneer of the new semiotics," and
Wallpaper
Magazineclaims that he has "exalted the sign into an iconic art
form."
McGinness received critical acclaim in 1999 for his first book,
flatnessisgod. Since then, three additional books of his work
have been
published: luxurygood (alife, New York), vocabularytest
(Joseph Silvestro
Gallery, New York), and pieceofmind (Colette, Paris). The themes
that
saturate his work include perception, identity, perspective, language,
symbolism, and domination.
Printed Matter will be featuring several new releases from McGinness hot
off the press: The 2003 Calendar published by Colette (France) and
Neverstop (US) is a page-a-day desktop calendar with a different
original
McGinness icon for each day of the year. Gasbook is a
catalog-style book
of McGinness' work and Video Happiness, a DVD compilation of
videos, were
both put out by the Japanese publisher, Gas. T-shirts and limited
edition
canvas messenger bags will be available in the store, as well as on our
website, http://www.printedmatter.org
and through Printed Matter's printed
2003 Holiday Catalog, which was designed by McGinness.
All of Printed Matter's inventory is also available from our website:
http://www.printedmatter.org.
For additional information, please contact David Platzker, Executive
Director, Printed Matter, Inc., at (212) 925-0325 or
dplatzker@printedmatter.org.
Printed Matter, Inc. is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
founded in 1976 by artists and art workers with the mission to foster
the
appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of artists' books and
other
artists' publications.
Printed Matter has received support, in part, through grants from the
National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts,
the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York Arts Recovery Fund, Art for
Art¹s
Sake, The New York Community Trust, Elizabeth Firestone Graham
Foundation,
The Roy and Niuta Titus Foundation, Heyday Foundation, The Kettering
Family Foundation, CHS Foundation, The Liman Foundation, The Cowles
Charitable Trust, Philip Morris Companies Inc., Women's Studio Workshop,
Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, and private foundations and
individuals worldwide.
Printed Matter, Inc. is not affiliated with, nor a division of, any
other
non-profit organization.
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