{"title":"Matias Faldbakken","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtist publications, booklets and printed matter by Matias Faldbakken, the Norwegian artist and novelist whose practice moves between sculpture, installation, intervention and text. Working across visual art and literature under the pseudonym Abo Rasul, Faldbakken extracts and repositions material from advertising, art history, mass culture and literature, often interfering with familiar objects until their original function becomes unstable. His institutional projects include interventions at dOCUMENTA (13) and major European exhibitions.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"matias-faldbakken-search-suche-documenta-13-100-notes-035-hatje-cantz-2011","title":"MATIAS FALDBAKKEN — Search \/ Suche, dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts, No. 035, Hatje Cantz, 2011","description":"\u003cp\u003eStaple-bound offset-printed booklet in paper wrapper. 10 × 15 cm. 32 pages. English and German text; monochrome illustrations. Published by Hatje Cantz, 2011, in preparation for dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, June–September 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor \u003cem\u003eSearch \/ Suche\u003c\/em\u003e, Faldbakken retrieved portions of the Google search histories stored across several of his hard drives. The phrases are reproduced chronologically, preserving the order in which they entered the search box. Many originated as image searches and therefore reveal the verbal material underlying his visual research: part studio note, part private index, part accidental writing. Hatje Cantz describes the resulting text as occupying a position between his visual and literary production, approaching automatic writing and concrete poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Oslo Police Christmas Party,” “Wehrmachtskanister,” “Rachel Whiteread Family,” “Grit Ass Tattoo.” The terms move without hierarchy from politics and art history to popular culture, technical questions, film scripts and stray personal associations. The search engine becomes both writing instrument and filing system. Meaning is generated through proximity rather than explanation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFaldbakken’s wider practice similarly extracts and repositions material from advertising, literature, art history and mass culture, often interfering with familiar objects until their original function becomes unstable. At dOCUMENTA (13), his related \u003cem\u003eBook Sculpture\u003c\/em\u003e intervention disrupted the ordering systems of Kassel’s public libraries by displacing books from their shelves. This booklet can be read as its quieter counterpart: not the destruction of a library arrangement, but the publication of an unstable digital one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe design remains deliberately administrative. A pale typographic wrapper identifies artist, title and serial number. Beneath it, a grainy monochrome image operates as an inner cover; a portrait of Henry Ford interrupts the textual sequence. The spare lists and bilingual editorial pages give the publication the appearance of a report whose data has ceased to serve its original purpose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot a catalogue of completed works. A record of the requests that preceded them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: very good. Light rubbing and minor edge and corner wear to the pale outer wrapper, with faint toning consistent with age and handling. Internally clean.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hatje Cantz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53819166196050,"sku":"FALDBAKKEN-HATJECANTZ-CAT-2011","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Faldbakken_-Matias.-SUCHE_dOCUMENTA-_13_-100-Notes---100-Thoughts.-2012-1-cover.jpg?v=1782196535"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/matias-faldbakken.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}