BOOK:Words Without Thoughts Never to Heaven Go,Almine Rech Editions

This catalogue is published in conjunction with the group exhibition “Words Without Thoughts Never to Heaven Go” which took place at Almine Rech Gallery New York in  2017. The book features three original essays : “Words Without Thoughts Never to Heaven Go”, by Dieter Buchhart; “Making a Mark: Words in the Image“, by Eric Robertson and “WORD-HEAVEN“ by Richard Shiff. The exhibition featured the word as an image and its metonymic relation to the motif itself. The title refers to, as Ed Ruscha said: “a noble quotation that is as timeless as it is poetic”, a line said by King Claudius in act three of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In a time where the word as a written unity, i.e. the meaning of the word and the displayed word—have become highly disparate due to digital and social media, the exhibition ‘points towards the actuality of a thorough examination of the word in artworks. The exhibition followed the increasing importance of words in art, starting from modernism and leading up through the twentieth century and into today. the comprehensive catalog in english features illustrations of all exhibited works along with essays reflecting the latest research by the renowned experts Richard Shiff and Eric Robertson alongside Dieter Buchhart.