Matthew Metzger - Heirloom

This catalog is the first book dedicated to Matthew Metzger's paintings, which explore abstraction and feature new works created for the Renaissance Society's exhibition. It also includes essays by six writers that reflect on the broader function of abstraction.

Format: Hardback
Length: 200 pages
Publication date: 20 January 2023
Publisher: Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago

Published on the occasion of Matthew Metzger's exhibition "Heirloom" at the Renaissance Society, this is the first book dedicated to the artist's paintings, which echo and explore various kinds of abstraction. Anchored by the new paintings Metzger made for this exhibition—a set of works conceived as an installation for the Renaissance Society's space that also serve as the subject of an essay by curator Karsten Lund—the book also features four other series of paintings by the artist, each of which further charts his evolving aesthetic and conceptual strategies.

For this publication, Metzger has also invited six writers—including Kris Cohen, Fumi Okiji, Hamza Walker, Jan Verwoert, and Anna Zett—to reflect on how abstraction functions more broadly, whether as a psychological tendency, a social phenomenon, or a technological side effect, among many other possibilities.

Weight: 878g
Dimension: 257 x 180 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780941548854