Pull Quotes:
“I like the idea of a word becoming a picture, almost leaving its body, then coming back and becoming a word again,” heonce said. “I see myself working with two things that don’t even ask to understandeach other.” -Ruscha, The New Yorker, 2013, p. 4
"i got into painting through photography" -Ruscha,
"I just happened to paint words like someone else paints flowers." -Ruscha,
"The things that happen in between are fascinating. I like to think that my entire life is made up of trying to stay in the middle." -Ruscha
"This fold in the middle the the book page in its rectangular shape. It's a method of storing things by folding them. It is a life pricipal that is part of my art" -Ruscha
"Whether it is about censor bars or blocks, everything is possible down to this one thing I'm struggling with, and that's the rectangle." -Ruscha
"Sometimes I wonder whether I am painting pictures of words or whether I'm painting picture with words." -Ruscha
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Exhibition 01: Reading Ed Ruscha, Kunsthaus-Bregenz, Austria, 2012
Exhibition Booklet: Exhibition Booklet, Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2013, source url
Exhibition Catalog: Ed Ruscha: Reading Ed Ruscha Exhibiton Catlog, Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2013
Find: essays from catalog "The essays written for this catalog book by Douglas Coupland and W. S. Di Piero
approach these issues through literary and poetic forms. Beatrice
von Bismarck examines the book as work, medium of publication,
and exhibition format, while Yilmaz Dziewior presents an over
view of Ed Ruscha’s engagement with the book as a medium and his
relation to the written word."
Find: Ruscha Lecture at Kunstgaus-Bregenz
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Exhibition 02: Ed Ruscha, 2013, Gagosian, NYC.
Press: Empty Pages in a Show Filled With Words, NY Times, Karen Rosenberg, Dec 2012, source url
Press: Hot Type: Ruscha and The Book, Modern Painters, Meghan Dailey, April 2013, source url
Press: MacAdam, Alfred. “Ed Ruscha.” Artnews 112, no. 2 (February 2013), p. 86.
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Exhibtion 03: Books and Co, Gagosian, NYC, 2013
Press: Conceptual Inspiration by The Book, NY Times, Carol Vogel, Feb 2013, source url
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Exhibtion 04: Ruscha: Books and Paintings, Museum Branhorst, Munich, 2013.
Exhibition Catalog: Ed Ruscha: Books and Paintings, Düsseldorf: Richter/Fey, 2013. Text by Armin Zweite. (Museum Brandhort, Munich)