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Adam Pendleton - Blackness, White, and Light
Adam Pendleton, 2024

ISBN10: n/a    ISBN13: 9783753303383


In 2023 mumok Vienna presents the first comprehensive European solo exhibition of New York-based artist Adam Pendleton. In his paintings, drawings, and other works, Pendleton uses letters, words, drips, splashes, sprays, and collected images as primary materials. His work is a kind of continuous writing in which language, movement, memory, and gesture are recorded, transposed, and overwritten. He blurs the boundaries between seeing and reading, between representation and abstraction, between painting, drawing, photography and film. In 2008, he began to articulate his work "Black Dada", a visual project and an evolving investigation into the relationships between blackness, abstraction, and the avant-garde. For the exhibition at mumok, he has further developed his groups of works "Black Dada", "System of Display", and "Untitled (Days)", as well as created new largescale works such as "Untitled (WE ARE NOT)" and further developments of Code Poems, which are inspired by Hannah Weiner's poems of the same name as well as Morse code. The catalogue was created in close collaboration with the artist and his chosen graphic designer, and includes works by Adam Pendleton in colour for the first time.00Exhibition: mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria (31.03.2023 - 01.07.2024).