At once a personal narrative and an encyclopedic gathering of material, Dutch artist Mark Manders' "Self-Portrait" began its life as a building in 1986. Since then, Manders has exhibited fragments of the project, an array of created and found objects, furniture, sculpture and drawings, keeping it in constant flux, changing its order with each showing.
Mark Manders' first UK solo exhibition takes the form of an ambitious new commission for BALTIC's Level 4 gallery space. Short Sad Thoughts draws on an ongoing investigation entitled Self-portrait as a Building that evolves with each new presentation - a project the artist has been working on since 1986 when he was 18 years old. The exhibition features drawings and sculptural constructions.
Published in conjunction with the Dutch entry for the 55th Venice Biennale, this book presents the solo exhibition of Dutch artist Mark Manders, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti. It contains a detailed documentation of Manders' installation in the pavilion, photographed by Jan Kempenaers, stressing its dialogue with the architecture of Rietveld. Short texts by a selection of approximately 40 international writers and curators, create a multiple perspective on Manders
Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Collezione Maramotti centring on the installation piece Isolated Bathroom / Composition with Four Colors by Dutch artist Mark Manders, this book comprises a lengthy series of black-and-white photographs from
Small sized with a broad selection of Manders work. Published on the occasion of an exhibition in the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico. Texts in Spanish by Mark Manders and Ruth
This artist-designed publication documents "Isolated Rooms," a 2003 exhibition by Mark Manders at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. These installations marked the American museum debut for the 35-year-old Dutch artist, who has been exhibiting in Europe since the early 1990s. For "Isolated Rooms" Manders created fifteen new major pieces in a variety of media, including handmade and found objects, drawings, and sculptures. Manders used both traditional gallery settings and non-traditional spaces, such as a stairwell, an exterior wall of the museum, and a non-functioning bathroom. The book comprises two parts: Isolated Rooms Reference Book surveys the artist's oeuvre to date and features essays by James Rondeau and Dieter Roelstraet; the second fully documents the Chicago exhibitions and includes a checklist with discussions of each exhibited piece. Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago
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