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Christopher Wool Softcover with dust jacket
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Each new Christopher Wool exhibition digs deeper into methods established and questions raised by his work. His approach revolves around repetition, erasure, and layering, focusing on essential elements like form, line, and color. Motifs are varied or earlier works reused, printed, and overpainted again. Wool shapes and reshapes the form almost like a sculptor kneading clay. As a subtle gesture, a small sculpture stands as the centerpiece of this 2017 exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin, made from pigmented concrete as a barely shaped torso. Around it, Wool presents works on paper and large-sized paintings: a portfolio of lithographs titled Portraits (red), whose central reddish mass is laid out flat in Ben-Day dots; another lithograph series titled a.k.a. that uses lettering within lines as a means of composition; small silkscreen prints heavily overpainted with rough brushstrokes; and huge canvases in rich shades of black that congeal into forms from the artist’s early Rorschach series. The book presents images of all works along with black-and-white installation views photographed by the artist himself. It is wrapped in a dust jacket that unfolded reveals a poster designed by Wool specifically for the exhibition.
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