Christopher Wool: Roma Termini

Publisher: Gagosian Gallery 
Publication Date: 2010 
Binding: Softcover  
Edition: 1st  
Condition: New
Softcover, 76 unbound pages. 10 1/4 × 12 5/8 inches. Sealed, new. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Christopher Wool at Gagosian, Rome. The loose-leaf portfolio features works that continue Wool s ongoing formal investigation of abstract painting s interruption by mechanically reproducible fragments and gestures, including recent paintings made out of the digitally altered images of past works and a photographic series titled Roma. In the style of earlier photo series such as East Broadway Breakdown, Away Without Leave, and Incident on 9th St., Roma offers a hard-boiled tour of classical grime, locating incidental mishaps and nocturnal banalities in the streets of Rome as if it were the scene of innumerable crimes. The bilingual (English/Italian) publication includes a whimsical essay by Tommaso Pincio on Wool and other painter-scribes who have passed through this eternal city.