Wade Guyton Boeken

For the exhibition at the Josef Albers Museum the artist created four paintings, which are integrated into the presentation of works by Josef Albers starting a dialogue with them. Guyton‘s work is connected with the tradition of Modernism, which culminated in the paintings of the , New York School‘ and in Minimal Art. With sparse vocabulary he is examining the different possibilities of a visual language. At the same time Wade Guyton is testing the idea of artistic authorship: the creative process is disconnected from the artist‘s own hand, his paintings are programmed on a computer and then printed on classical canvas to give them a physical form.

Guytons printer drawings consist of illustrated pages torn out of exhibition catalogues, monographs and architecture books. With the help of a standard ink printer, Guyton then adds geometric shapes to the original plates which do not relate to the illustration in any ostensible way. One shows a Suprematist composition superimposed over an abstract biomorphic sculpture, another a perforated rectangle over a Dada poster, and in another, flames crawl over reproductions of paintings. Here three series of works are presented in this monograph, published in conjunction with an exhibition in Lyon.