Richard Artschwager

This book was published on the occasion of Richard Artschwager, an exhibition organized in 2019 by the Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy, which traveled to the Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, in 2020. Edited by the exhibition’s curator, Germano Celant, it constitutes a definitive overview of the artist’s oeuvre, fully documenting his work in drawing, painting, sculpture, and other mediums. A detailed fourteen-part chronology compiled by Ian Wallace that runs throughout the book aims to interconnect Artschwager’s personal and professional lives, tracing the development of the artist’s practice from 1923 to 2013 and illuminating his complex and playful fusion of Pop art, Conceptual art, and Minimalism. In addition to numerous color illustrations, including photographs of all the works in the exhibition, the bilingual (English/Italian) catalogue features Celant’s critical essay “Richard Artschwager: In Between,” a succession of shorter texts by the artist, and excerpts from an interview by Paul Cummings.