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114 Pages - Black & White - Published 2008
ISBN: 978-82-92495-10-0 ISSN: 1503-8467
The Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) is pleased to
announce the publication of Ü, an artist's book by
Olav Westphalen. Ü brings together for
the first time Westphalen's satirical drawings and cartoons, which
have appeared individually in art magazines for the last decade.
The drawings, which are always printed within publications and
never exhibited on their own, explore the distinctions between high
and low culture, art and entertainment, and critical and commercial
art. In addition to previously published cartoons, Ü
includes a large number of drawings made specifically for it. The
mixture of styles, and general interest with art-world topics, is
the result of Westphalen's exploration of the overlap between the
terms 'joke',
'cartoon' and 'art'.
In place of an introduction, Ü includes a conversation between Westphalen and Dan Graham on Westphalen's work and the role of humour in contemporary art.
The project originated from a residency Westphalen had in Oslo as part of OCA's International Studio Programme in 2006. Ü has been published by OCA with the support of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany and the Goethe-Institut.
Olav Westphalen is a German-born artist who lives and works in Stockholm and New York. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in New York, Stockholm, Frankfurt, Paris and Berlin, and was included in the Whitney Biennial in 2004. His latest exhibition, Waiting for the Barbarians, opened at Maccarone gallery in New York on 13 September, 2008. Westphalen is a Professor of Performative Art at the Royal Academy in Stockholm.
CONTENTS
Olav Westphalen as a ¨Lumpen-Conceptualist¨: A Conversation
Between the Artist and Dan Graham
Ü by Olav Westphalen
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