Tacita Dean

Base Matter and Uncommon Solvent: Drawings, Prints, Collages, and Objects 1988–2024 Special Edition
2024
Hardback

Publisher: MACK.

ISBN: 978

Dimensions: 24 x 29 cm

Pages: 624
£500.00

Comprising a signed and numbered copy of the first edition of Base Matter and Uncommon Solvent, the book is combined in a slipcase with a monoprint specially hand produced by Tacita Dean with Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles. The new work is titled Fountain of Eternal Youth, 2024 and consists in a limited edition of 100 signed and numbered unique monoprints, each housed in a folding linen bound presentation sleeve.

 

Base Matter and Uncommon Solvent is an overdue comprehensive survey of drawings, prints, collages, and objects that are directly drawn, marked, or altered by Tacita Dean. The chosen works differentiate from those made using mechanical reproduction, such as photographs, purely image-based etching and screenprints, and her 16mm and 35mm films.

 

Accompanied by a unique inkjet print signed and numbered by the artist, mounted on a handmade passepartout, enveloped in a silkscreen-printed linen
Housed in a handmade millboard slipcase
The 100 prints are randomly allocated and can not be selected
Print size: 14.3x10.5cm, printed image 13.3x9.5cm

 

The special edition will be available for dispatch in January 2025. Please fill in an enquiry form to pre-order.