Series:

OMP

7 primary works • 8 total works

Book 19

Cover of Desarting

Book 36

Cover of Design Mass

Book 50.2

Cover of Lucas Maassen: Conceivably, the Object is What it Seems

Book 57

Cover of Esther Tielemans: New Scenes
Drawing attention to the visual quality of concentration, sensation, relations,

Book 61

Cover of Global Villaging

Global Villaging

by Freek Lomme

Published 8 August 2013

Book 62

Cover of Krak

Krak

by Freek Lomme, Ranti Tjan, and Ilse van Rijn

Published 8 August 2013

Book 66

Cover of The Axis of Praxis
Koen Delaere proposes a fundamental, hardcore, and truly preliterate sphere as a preliterate body. He reconstructs material integrity in order to release a resistant, symbolic sphere of abstract, tempting beauty beyond the ambiguous and unambiguous: a sphere of resistance. ‘Fuck it’ may very well be released progressively rather then regressively; we just have to reach out to its variables.

The book serves as a book of references concerning Delaere’s symbolized matter of friction, discussing its outlines through assembled images and texts.

Book 83

Cover of An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth
Thomas Raat's series of abstract paintings takes off from the cover designs of popular egghead paperbacks published from the late 1940s until the early 70s. The artist's repurposing of the predominantly abstract imagery of the jackets mediates an abstruse range of synthetic epistemologies (from freedom and responsibility to the law of civilization and decay) as well as the needs or demands of various book series and the branding orientations of the publishing houses that commissioned them. The essay by John C. Welchman, featured in the book, discusses how Raat's work operates at the technical interface between abstract painting and visual construction and on the generic borderlines between art, design and the history of ideas; and how his intervention precipitates a salient crisis in the signifying assumptions delivered to non-figurative compositionality in the mid-twentieth century-and its later reassessments.