Hasta La Ideas

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pAnother example of great design generated by this year’s Whitney Biennial, Project Project’s a href=”http://projectprojects.com/2010-whitney-biennial/”design for the show’s catalogue/a focuses on expressing the temporality of art, political context and the exhibition space in an intentionally vertigo-inducing “paper-and-ink time machine.”/p

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pLike any catalogue, the first half of the book displays the work of the show’s selected artists. The second half, labeled as an appendix, does something special, layering archival photographs of the Whitney’s successively modern buildings with unconventional images of American presidents. /p

pThis graphic folly mirrors the logic of the exhibition series, in which a selection of contemporary American Art is contextualized within related curatorial frameworks. The appendix includes a list of every participating artist and every catalogue cover since the biennial’s inception in 1932, plus a selection of press clippings and installation shots, “acknowledging the weight of American political realities as pervading the privileged space of the exhibition.” /p

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