Erica Baum featured in the
30th São Paulo Biennial

A iminência das poéticas 
(The Imminence of Poetics)
September 7–December 9, 2012

Bureau, New York
127 Henry Street
New York, NY 10002

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Bureau is pleased to announce Erica Baum’s inclusion in the 30th São Paulo Biennial, to be held from September 7–December 9, 2012. A iminência das poéticas 
(The Imminence of Poetics), is curated by Luis Pérez-Oramas, with Tobi Maier, André Severo, and Isabela Villanueva assisting. Erica Baum will present a diverse selection of work from 1994 to the present.

The Biennial will feature some 105 works from Baum’s photographic series from her gelatin silver prints of found text and imagery on classroom chalkboards in Blackboards (1994–95) to her well-known Card Catalogue (1996–97) and Naked Eye (2008–12) series, which show her penchant for delving into dense folios, mining them for unexpected and beautiful combinations of text and image. Also included with be the artist’s less well-known works from her Frick (1998), Index (1999-2000), Piano Roll (2008) series, which show how found juxtapositions of words, numbers, and notations on a page can reveal complex abstractions and found poetry. Baum will also present a number of works from her new series Blanks (2011–12) which are her most sumptuously abstract works yet, having evolved, sans-text, from her recent work scanning the folded down pages of book pages, revealing found poetry and strong geometric forms in her Dog Ear pieces (2009–10).

“All of Baum’s texts hold up to close scrutiny. It’s here that the crux of her practice is revealed; she has selected these dog ears equally for their visual and literary merits. […] If she’s just visually fetishizing old books, any page would do. But it’s the bouncy resonance of the texts, combined with the striking beauty of these configurations, that gives this body of work the power that it has.” –Kenneth Goldsmith

News from Bureau, New York
Ongoing:
Sarah Dornner, Primavesi House, at Bureau through July 28, 2012
Justin Matherly’s, New Beaches, featured in Common Ground, with the Public Art Fund at City Hall Park, through November 30, 2012

Upcoming:
Erica Baum, solo exhibition at Bureau, opening September 15, 2012
Matt Hoyt solo project at the Frame Section of Frieze London with Bureau, October 10–14, 2012
Viktor Kopp solo exhibition at Bureau, opening November 4, 2012
Constance De Jong, solo project with Bureau, January 2013