{"product_id":"17900-taryn-simon","title":"Taryn Simon","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003eIn\u0026nbsp;\u003ci\u003ePaperwork and the Will of Capital\u003c\/i\u003e, Taryn Simon (* 1975)\u0026mdash;one of the most original and\u0026nbsp;challenging conceptual artists of our time\u0026mdash;brings together geopolitics, horticultural science, and the art\u0026nbsp;of still life to investigate how the\u0026nbsp;stagecraft of power is created, performed, marketed, and\u0026nbsp;maintained.\u0026nbsp;At signings of political accords, contracts, treaties, and decrees determining some of the\u0026nbsp;gravest issues of our time, powerful men flank floral centerpieces curated to convey\u0026nbsp;the importance of the signatories and represented institutions. Simon reconstituted and\u0026nbsp;photographed the flower arrangements from archival images of key events; she then dried and pressed the flowers as herbarium specimens. This sumptuous book, part nature\u0026nbsp;study, part metaphor, bears witness to an elaborate and intriguing process of artistic deconstruction and reconstruction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin\"\u003eExhibitions: Gagosian, New York 18.2.\u0026ndash;26.3.2016 | Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow 17.3.\u0026ndash;22.5.2016 | Tel Aviv Museum of Art 23.9.2016\u0026ndash;28.1.2017\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c!--?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/--\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44873326330120,"sku":"9783775741576","price":78.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775741576_a25875e8-fa91-40ad-9e81-d25cd32af35d.jpg?v=1744139582","url":"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/17900-taryn-simon","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}