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SUMMARY: Als Teil seiner Ausstellung im Museum Ludwig hat Wade Guyton ein Künstlerbuch geschaffen, mit dem er seine künstlerische Arbeit auf mehr als 60 farbigen Doppelseiten demonstriert und gleichsam auf den Punkt bringt. Er demonstriert visuell seine Vorgehensweise, die oft darin besteht, dass er für seine Bilder bereits reproduzierte Bilder und Ausschnitte aus Büchern oder Kunstzeitschriften verwendet. Der Stapel Bilder und Magazinausschnitte auf den ersten Seiten dieses Buches wird, je weiter man nach hinten blättert, immer weniger. Guyton macht klar, wo er welche Motive gefunden hat, warum er welches Format wählt. Dem Leser wird auch die Malerei von Wade Guyton erfahrbar, die sich - wie das Buch - auf das Ausgangsmaterial und den Herstellungsprozess selbst bezieht.

Founded in 2004, Guyton\Walker--the artist duo of Wade Guyton (born 1972) and Kelley Walker (born 1969)--is a partnership that has remained virtually without parallel in contemporary art, in that both artists work and exhibit individually. This volume examines all facets of their output, both singly and together. Essays by Sam Pulitzer and Quinn Latimer discuss individual authorship and joint techniques, while Jack Bankowsky's text examines Guyton\Walker within a broad art-historical context. Yilmaz Dziewior's introductory essay outlines the distinctive concept of the Kunsthaus Bregenz exhibition this book accompanies, and addresses the relationship between individual and joint artistic practices. Each section on the three artistic positions features photographs of the installation in Kunsthaus Bregenz.

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.00Exhibition: Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop, Germany (23.11.2014 - 15.02.2015).

For this volume, Wade Guyton first had the book designed, and then printed it on the same ink-jet printers he used for his large-format serial prints on canvas. These pages were then scanned and printed by offset.In a sense, this artist's book is a work on the questions of reproduction, original, source, and re-formation at the heart of Guyton's practice.If one can say that Guyton's minimalist 'paintings', which connect directly to abstraction's history, conjure a re-structuring of Modernist art and decor, this book offers a mise en abyme of these procedures.Published with Portikus, Frankfurt, as well as with the support of Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, and Petzel Gallery, New York.English, French and German text.

Modern Collections announces an exhibition surveying the work of American artists Wade Guyton and Kelley Walker. Guyton and Walker, widely recognized as two of the most innovative artists working today, have radically contextualized and reinvented both the subject and method of painting, while their collaborative work as Guyton\Walker has made public their shared interest in material juxtaposition through techniques of scanning and printing. Guyton Guyton Wallker Walker presents an opportunity to view the two artists side by side - allowing direct comparisons between the limited, but rich, vocabularies and tightly controlled processes that have come to define each artists' work. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Eric C. Shiner, Director of the Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh.