Almine Rech
Gallery, New York UPPER EAST SIDE | NEW
YORK | USA
OCTOBER 31,
2017-DECEMBER 16, 2017
Almine Rech
Gallery New York is pleased to present Words Without Thoughts Never to Heaven
Go featuring the word as an image and its metonymic relation to the motif
itself. The title refers to, as Ed Ruscha put it: “a noble quotation that is as
timeless as it is poetic,"2 a line said by King Claudius in act three of
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In a time where the word as a written unity -
i.e. the meaning of the word and the displayed word - have become highly
disparate due to digital and social media, the exhibition Words Without
Thoughts Never to Heaven Go points towards the actuality of a thorough
examination of the word in artworks. The exhibition follows the increasing importance
of words in art, starting from Modernism and leading up through the twentieth
century and into today.
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