Nicole Eisenman’s dynamic installation ‘Maker’s Muck’ is the focus of a new publication by Hauser & Wirth Publishers. The mixed-media, kinetic installation was the heart of the artist’s first solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth in 2022 in New York and recently featured in the major UK retrospective ‘Nicole Eisenman: What
Happened’ at Whitechapel Gallery in 2023. Depicting an artist at work, ‘Makers’ Muck’ places an outsized plaster figure hunched over a potter’s wheel at its center, on which a mound of ersatz clay interminably spins.
Muck,’ Photo: Billy Tuttle, Courtesy Hauser & Wirth Publishers
For the new publication ‘Nicole Eisenman: Maker’s Muck’, the artist has invited 17 contributors to follow the trajectories of the various objects in ‘Maker’s Muck’ through essays, metafictional reflections and other experiments in writing. Selected by Eisenman in collaboration with editor Sarah Nicole Prickett, who also contributed a text, the writers in the book embody a cross-section of important voices in contemporary literature and art: hannah baer, Caren Beilin, Hannah Black, Durga Chew-Bose, Cyrus Dunham, Sheila Heti, Shiv Kotecha, Matt Longabucco, Sam McKinniss, Ryan McNamara, Alhena Katsof, Tess Pollok, Sam Roeck, Jasmine Sanders, Lynne Tillman, Janique Vigier.
Photo: Billy Tuttle, Courtesy Hauser & Wirth Publishers
In addition to photography of the full installation, the book features new, individual documentation of the work’s individual components, allowing for an independent dialogue with some of the contributing texts.
The publication will be released in two editions – a trade edition and a special edition – conceived in close collaboration with the artist and produced in a limited print run of 500 numbered copies, featuring a silkscreened linen jacket with a tipped-in image on the inside flap and a line of ‘muck’ hand-piped onto the spine of each book.
Muck,’ Photo: Billy Tuttle, Courtesy Hauser & Wirth Publishers
‘Nicole Eisenman. with, and, of, on Sculpture’ at Hauser & Wirth Paris
‘Nicole Eisenman: Maker’s Muck’ will be released shortly after the opening of the artist’s forthcoming exhibition ‘Nicole Eisenman. with, and, of, on Sculpture’ at Hauser & Wirth in Paris, on view from 5 June through 22 September 2024. For this exhibition, Eisenman celebrates the medium of sculpture, which has been an integral aspect of the artist’s practice over the last decade.
Having established herself as a central figure in American painting throughout the 1990s, Eisenman has since expanded her practice into the third dimension with international acclaim. This show brings together a diverse multidisciplinary language comprised of sculpture, two-dimensional work from the sculpture studio and paintings that relate to sculpture.
Nicole Eisenman: Maker’s Muck
Release date: 22 July 2024
Edited by Sarah Nicole Prickett. Text by hannah baer, Hannah Black, Durga Chew-Bose, Cyrus Dunham, Sheila Heti, Alhena Katsof, Shiv Kotecha, Matt Longabucco, Sam McKinniss, Ryan McNamara, Tess Pollok, Sarah Nicole Prickett, Sam Roeck, Jasmine Sanders, Lynne Tillman and Janique Vigier
English, two editions
29.25 x 23.5 cm, 168 pages
Trade edition: Softcover; 978-3-906915-78-4;
$45 / £38 / €42 / HKD 375 / CHF 42
Special edition: Softcover with jacket and acrylic muck spine; 978-3-906915-91-3;
$125 / £100 / €110 / HKD 1050 / CHF 120
©2024 Hauser & Wirth Publishers
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