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Women's work is never done
Catherine de Zegher

2014
HC / 620 pages / 25 x 20 cm
Published by
AsaMER
Language
EN
Author
Catherine de Zegher
Design
Studio Luc Derycke
Print
Lannoo, Tielt
ISBN
978 94 9069 347 3
Price
65.00 euros

In this impressive anthology, internationally acclaimed curator and director Catherine de Zegher (° 1955, Groningen) compiles 27 influential essays on women artists from the numerous books she has written and edited throughout her career. Like many of de Zegher’s previous projects and books, Women’s work is never done promotes the feminine principle, showcasing the work of female artists from across the world. Though her approach to art often has a global reach, de Zegher directs her attention deeper, to the intimate and the relational, to the specific work and the distinctive project of each artist.

ARTISTS: Everlyn Nicodemus, Cecilia Vicuña, Mona Hatoum, Ann Veronica Janssens, Martha Rosler, Nancy Spero, Ellen Gallagher, Anna Maria Maiolino, Avis Newman, Anna Atkins, Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz, Agnes Martin, Gego, Eva Hesse, Joelle Tuerlinckx, Julie Mehretu, Cristina Iglesias, Ranjani Shettar, Bracha L. Ettinger, Ria Verhaeghe, Monika Grzymala, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Judith Wright, Eva Kot’átková, Pierrette Bloch, Simryn Gill.

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MER. Paper Kunsthalle foundation was established in 2005 in order to examine the possibilities and position of books as places to exhibit art. Since their incipience, art books often developed as rigid catalogues or aide-mémoires. They were seldom considered as genuine spaces to exhibit living art. However, from Dada onwards artists have always thought of books as independent exhibiting spaces. From its creation onwards, MER keeps building further on this specific artistic practice.

One of MER. Paper Kunsthalle’s main focuses therefore is to provide this singular exhibiting space to artists, by creating an institutional platform that publishes art books in a different fashion. MER. calls itself a Paper Kunsthalle; because it initiates, develops and supports art exhibiting within the medium book.

Since its launch MER. Paper Kunsthalle has produced, curated and published over 300 books with and by underserved to established artists. MER has also experimented with exhibiting artists' books as independent works of art, in artistic spaces. These nomadic, curatorial exhibitions go by the name MER. Station, and have been presented in a wide range of national and international artistic venues.

In 2018 MER. Paper Kunsthalle entrusted its book publishing activities to Borgerhoff & Lambrigts NV, where it continues its programme under the MER. Imprint.

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