"Since 1986, Dutch artist Mark Manders (born 1968) has been developing an ongoing project titled "Self-Portrait as a Building." Taking the form of sculptures, installations, drawings and projections, these works map Manders' artistic persona through the conceptual model of a built edifice, in the fashion of the Renaissance memory theater. Inspired by writings on this subject and by other literature, Manders' earliest works in this projec ..."
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"Following on from the success of "Antony Gormley: Blind Light and Psycho Buildings", The Hayward has established itself as one of the world's leading venues for complex, large-scale installation art. Its 2009 summer show is another major and ambitious experimental exhibition. "Walking in My Mind" transforms the gallery's unique spaces into a 'giant brain', bringing together large-scale installations by ten international artists, that in ..."
"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 fou ..."
"Mark Manders is a young Dutch artist who has received considerable international acclaim for his sculptural installations, drawings, and artist books, which offer an abstracted meditation on notions of portraiture."
MarkManders(Illustrated) Short Sad Thoughts by MarkManders, Dr. Penelope Curtis Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2005 by Roma/Baltic Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-1-903655-26-9, ISBN: 1-903655-26-9
"Catalogue documenting Manders solo exhibition at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead in which the artist continues on his ongoing investigation entitled Self-portrait as a Building, that evolves with each new presentation a project the artist has been working on since 1986. Features a number of new drawings and sculptural works."
"A culture's body image, as refracted through its art, will usually provide a more telling account of its preoccupations than the most explicit political art; it seems that cultural symptoms leak more readily into depictions of the body than into more overt statements. This is especially true in periods of heightened alienation, when the solitary figure gains poignancy, but bodies register their eras in many ways: the signifiers of opule ..."
"From John Currin's old-master-style Playboy bunnies to Elizabeth Peyton's fin-de-siècle portraits; from Julie Mehretu's dizzying, multilayered architectural landscapes to Shahzia Sikander's multipatterned miniature ones; from Yoshitomo Nara's angry and enigmatic little girls to Kara Walker's stereotypical negresses; and from Barry McGee's caricatures of urban graffiti to Matthew Ritchie's cosmological diagrams--drawing is back, if it ev ..."
MarkManders(1st Edition) Traducing Ruddle / Two Connected Houses by MarkManders, Roma Publications, Roger Willems Pamphlet, 48 Pages, Published 2010 by Fillip Editions ISBN-13: 978-0-9738133-7-1, ISBN: 0-9738133-7-7
"Conceived as a proposal for The Guggenheim Museum in New York, this book, or magazine, guides you through an imaginary exhibition with works by Manders, spread out over two houses connected with a tunnel from kitchen to kitchen. 'Two Connected Houses' will be on show at 'Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum', New York, February 12 April 28, 2010 and will also be distributed, as a 48 page insert of Manders' news ..."
MarkManders(Updated) Fragments from self-portrait as a building by MarkManders, Mathilde Heyns, Nancy Forest- Flier Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 1997 by Douglas Hyde Gallery ISBN-13: 978-90-73501-35-5, ISBN: 90-73501-35-0
"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 multi ..."
MarkManders - Slide Projections Two Interconnected Houses by MarkManders Hardcover, 120 Pages, Published 2010 by Roma Publications ISBN-13: 978-90-77459-51-5, ISBN: 90-77459-51-0
"In 2010 11 the work of acclaimed Dutch sculptor Mark Manders, a winner of the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art, is touring the USA for the first time, with shows at the Hammer Museum Los Angeles, Aspen Art Museum, the Walker Art Center Minneapolis, and the Dallas Museum of Art. Manders' work aims to bypass language, gathering existing and self-made objects into tableaux that incorporate figures, animals, household goods, archeological de ..."
"Como una cartografía práctica, sútil e impasible de la realidad atemporal que compone toda economía, con el trueque y tráfico de mercancías “cosas esencialmente inútiles”, Gabriel Kuri une el arte con el comercio en una entrega, COMPOST INDEX, que publica en México la Dirección General de Publicaciones del CONACULTA en coedición con ROMA PUBLICATIONS, casa editorial de libros de artistas de Ámsterdam. COMPOST INDEX reúne obras que propo ..."
"The multi-dimensionality of our daily experiences is reduced by the television and internet media to the surface of a flat screen. Thus reality loses more and more of its spatial qualities, even as theoretical physicists develop increasingly sophisticated models to better understand the structures of time and space. As they employ an ever-growing number of dimensions in this endeavor, the mode of our sensual reception continues to becom ..."
MarkManders Obra De Referencia (sp Only) (Spanish Edition) by MarkManders, Ruth Estevez Paperback, 65 Pages, Published 2007 by Roma Publications ISBN-13: 978-90-77459-57-7, ISBN: 90-77459-57-X
"Many of the works of the Belgian photographer Jan Kempenaers are artistic presentations of fragments of our environment - landscapes, as we have come to call them. Some of these landscapes are ""natural"" ones and continue an overtly picturesque tradition, like for instance his arresting photographs of rocks and forest landscapes. Others may come across as ""natural"" but upon close examination they reveal the traces of man's interventi ..."
"Approximately 30 texts - richly illustrated -, published and unpublished, written between 1965 and the present: letters, essays, interviews, articles, facsimiles of illustrated texts, transcripts of talks, and a book-in-progress: Revisioning the Parthenon. The items are of disparate length and tone and cover subjects ranging from optics to orchids, cultural politics to ancient Greek iconography, art theory and philosophy to the mixed pl ..."
Dias abertos Culturgest ; [Michaël Borremans ... ] ; [editado por ocasião da exposição "Roma Publications" na Culturgest, de 20 de maio a 27 de agosto de 2006 em Lisboa] by Marije Langelaar, Michaël Borremans, MarkManders, Roger Willems 72 Pages, Published 2006 ISBN-13: 978-90-77459-12-6, ISBN: 90-77459-12-X