Ian Wallace
A Literature of Images
2000 Sternberg Press Publication
© Sternberg Press
This is the first extensive survey catalogue of the work of Vancouver-based artist Ian Wallace—a key figure of the extraordinary artistic ferment in the Canadian city of Vancouver, a pioneer and theorist of its internationally regarded tradition of photo-conceptualism, and a teacher and colleague of such luminaries as Jeff Wall, Rodney Graham, and Stan Douglas.
Energized by the dialectic tensions between monochrome painting and documentary or staged photography, between the emblematic sites of street, studio and nature, Wallace’s practice fosters engagement with the persistent impulses of vanguard modernism.
A distinguished company of European thinkers, curators and critics have been invited to consider Wallace’s art, inspirations, and influence: Vanessa Joan Müller considers the persistence of the monochrome in the artist’s oeuvre; Dieter Roelstraete addresses the dialectics of street and studio; and the eminent French philosopher Jacques Rancière pursues his on-going meditation on the politics of aesthetics, which has had a strong influence on Wallace’s thinking about art. The indispensable reference includes extensive color reproductions, catalogue of exhibited works, a chronology, and thorough bibliographic information.
Editors: Vanessa Joan Müller, Beatrix Ruf, Nicolaus Schafhausen
Texts: Vanessa Joan Müller, Jacques Rancière, Dieter Roelstraete, Ian Wallace
Interviews: Renske Janssen
September 2008, English
24.5×27.5 cm, 220 pages, 100 color ill., clothbound hardcover
ISBN 978-1-933128-51-1
Design: Surface
Copublishers: Kunsthalle Zürich; Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf; Witte de With, Rotterdam
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