• Rafael Melendez, After Sturtevant, The Academy of Realness, 2022 — pamphlet cover; blue monospaced typography on white stock; black fabric sculpture centred; subtitle: Linguistics, Idealism, Repetition, Difference and Ownership
  • Rafael Melendez, After Sturtevant, 2022 — interior spread; left page shows Elaine Sturtevant portrait photograph with introductory text; right pages show reconstructed Richard Prince and Rafael Melendez SWAB Barcelona exhibition posters with running text on repetition and appropriation
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The Academy of Realness

Rafael Melendez — After Sturtevant

Rafael Melendez — After Sturtevant

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Artist publication / pamphlet
The Academy of Realness, 2022
Released for SWAB Art Fair, Barcelona, October 2022
16 pages
Offset print on folded paper stock

Condition: very good; light handling wear consistent with production and storage

A 16-page artist pamphlet produced by Rafael Melendez under the pseudonym The Academy of Realness. Released for SWAB Barcelona in 2022, After Sturtevant gathers images, quotations and short texts around linguistics, idealism, repetition, difference and ownership in a postmodern context.

The publication moves through Elaine Sturtevant, Jean Baudrillard, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Richard Prince, Maurizio Cattelan, Blinky Palermo, Warhol and Cady Noland, treating repetition not as copying but as a method of displacement. Its design uses blue monospaced typography, white space, documentation images, exhibition-poster reconstructions and art-historical fragments.

The pamphlet operates as a portable theory-object: a folded support where authorship remains temporarily unstable and where the artwork survives as image, citation and repeated passage.

Original period item.

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