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Pieces of Chouteau Island
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Beat Streuli : city
Title Description - Beat Streuli photographs passers-by mid-movement and then presents them at a large scale in projected slide shows. This book scales them down, slows them down and contextualizes them with the critical voices of Rupert Pfab and…
What a beauty
Title Description - After Kurt Schwitters. Fragmentation and reconstruction of a painting based on a photograph of New York. Carefully executed hand colored and mounted laser prints on colored card stock. 29 June 2009 (printedmatter.org).
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Central mistake
Title Description - Hand colored prints and altered maps of Central Park. "A morphological development of nonsense, which vanishes into thin air." Includes landmarks of Manhattan and of art. 29 June 2009 (printedmatter.org).
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Manhattan bus map
Title Description - This accordian-fold book depicts three couples, each of a different combination of genders, rendered in grotesque painterly style in shades of black, white, grey, and (for lips and nipples) bright red. The tongues of each couple…
Welcome to New York
Title Description - In this series of carefully executed hand colored and mounted laser prints and cut contact prints on colored card stock, Surek tells the story of a sort of cosmopolitan angel who, after arriving in the city, gradually transforms…
Water + gambling = asphalt
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Perpetual motion
Title Description - Perpetual Motion is a literal and figurative map of a road trip that traces a journey through life. Layered, duotone, motion-blurred photographs and close-up reproductions of road maps are interspersed with minimal textual…
1904, Saint Louis.
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