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Black book cover of Benjamin Rubloff: When I was there, with white dots. Published by Verlag Kettler.
Black book cover of Benjamin Rubloff: When I was there, with white dots. Published by Verlag Kettler.
Black book cover of Benjamin Rubloff: When I was there, with white dots. Published by Verlag Kettler.
Black book cover of Benjamin Rubloff: When I was there, with white dots. Published by Verlag Kettler.
Black book cover of Benjamin Rubloff: When I was there, with white dots. Published by Verlag Kettler.
Black book cover of Benjamin Rubloff: When I was there, with white dots. Published by Verlag Kettler.
Black book cover of Benjamin Rubloff: When I was there, with white dots. Published by Verlag Kettler.
Black book cover of Benjamin Rubloff: When I was there, with white dots. Published by Verlag Kettler.

Benjamin Rubloff

When I was there

By (author) Duncan Ballantyne-Way
By (author) Benjamin Rubloff

£42.00

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  • Street art recreated as fine art
  • Accompanying text and photographs place the sites in context in a changing urban landscape
Full Description

Benjamin Rubloff’s paintings in this book are all based on fragments of found graffiti. For many years, the artist photographed tags as he walked around the city, mainly because he was interested in their painterly qualities: the speed of a gesture, the way they sit on a wall, their random drips and splashes. As an experiment, he began copying these marks into oil paintings, altering the scale and framing, but otherwise aiming for an exact transcription of the original tag. His intention was to create abstract paintings that would not bear the qualities of his own hand. Instead, they would be records of the traces of others.

When he retraced his steps — sometimes years later — to find the original tags, Rubloff often found them gone. Sometimes the sites themselves had been radically altered. He began to write about these places in conjunction with the paintings, exploring the intersection of their histories with his own. As a result, each painting in the book is accompanied by a text and a photograph of the site, intended to provide an anchor back to the city itself.

About the Author

Benjamin Rubloff is an American artist now based in Berlin. His work explores issues of place. He began his career as a landscape painter, working conceptually within the genre to investigate how issues of politics and ideology are inscribed onto the landscape. This interest led him to Cornell University’s interdisciplinary MFA program where he studied art alongside histories of landscape and urbanism. He is a recent recipient of a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant for Painting. He holds an M.A. in education from Harvard University and a B.A. from Wesleyan University in American Studies.┬á

Specifications
Publisher
Verlag Kettler
ISBN
9783987411441
Published
8th Oct 2024
Binding
Hardback
Territory
World excluding Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Size
250 mm x 188 mm
Pages
116 Pages
Illustrations
74 color
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