Dan Rees - Road Back to Relevance (Nomas Foundation, Rome March - July 2016) *** SIGNED COPY ***

REES, Dan ] Dieter Roelstraete, Saim Demircan, Ben Gregory (essays)

ISBN 10: 8867492179 / ISBN 13: 9788867492176

Published by Mousse Publishing, Milan, 2018

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4to in illustrated stiff card covers, with colour printed stiff paper wrapper, 139pp on stiff paper, colour plates, etc. Dual text in English and Italian. This copy signed by Dan Rees on the front fly-leaf (no other marks or inscriptions) . [CONDITION: NEW copy in an almost AS NEW complete Dust Jacket (minute nick to bottom edge of front panel) ] . __To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dan Rees - Road Back to Relevance (Nomas Foundation, Rome March - July 2016) *** SIGNED COPY ***
• Publisher: Mousse Publishing, Milan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8867492179
• ISBN 13: 9788867492176
• Binding: SOFTCOVER
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Nomas Foundation, Rome, Road Back to Relevance gives insight into the last decade of Dan Rees’s (b. Swansea, UK, 1982) practice. It brings together groups of works—paintings, videos, installations, and photography—that have never before been viewed simultaneously, and reveals the complex nature of the artist’s research. The title refers to a slide presentation made by the artist in collaboration with an advertising strategist and designer that, by charting the course of a specific solidarity campaign between Wales and Nicaragua started in the 1980s, questions how pre-“clicktivist” modes of social engagement, activism, and international solidarity can remain relevant today. As Dieter Roelstraete writes in his essay contribution: “The work of Dan Rees touches upon a wide range of topics, subjects, and issues, but one dominant, recurring preoccupation doubtlessly concerns the politics of taste. ‘Taste’—its cultural corollaries, its political over- and undertones, and most importantly its social sources—is one of Rees’s preferred problems. And where it is addressed most directly and unapologetically—that is to say, in the so-called Artex paintings—is exactly where his work becomes most willingly, egregiously ‘problematic. ’” Texts by Dieter Roelstraete, Saim Demircan, Ben Gregory?