This lavish picture-book surveys Seth Price’s 2009–13 series of Knot Paintings, in which Price unites his signature vacuum-forming technique—an industrial plastic packaging process— with a refined group of painterly techniques that include acrylic and oil, spray-paint, screen-printing, poured resins, and patterned fabrics. Museum Brandhorst director Achim Hochdörfer has written: “These works stand at the heart of an expanded discourse on painting that took shape in the 2000s. Each Knot Painting introduces a fresh set of concerns: drawing and print techniques are integrated, slits are made in the surface, new ways of applying paint are tested. Painting becomes a node in a network of media-related and societal references.” Price developed the book’s concept and materials in close collaboration with designer Joseph Logan, yielding an artist’s book in which the layout moves from extreme close-up to full views of these rich surfaces, while plastics and metal in the book’s binding reflect the materiality of the works.

Contributor: Bettina Funcke

Publisher: Petzel, Hatje Cantz, 2018

Language: English

Softcover, 104 pages

35.56 x 19.05cm

ISBN: 97837757444485

About the artist

Seth Price lives in New York City. His work has been the subject of numerous one-person exhibitions including most recently the Aspen Art Museum (2019), MoMA/PS1 (2018), the ICA London (2018), and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2017), and he has participated in Documenta 13 (2012) and the Venice Biennial (2011).