WALTER DAHN: 4th Time Around / (My Back Pages), curated by Richard Prince, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, 2013

Exhibition catalogue, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, 2013. Perfect-bound illustrated softcover; 56 pages; 13 × 18 cm; colour and black-and-white offset printing. Text by Richard Prince. Designed by Joshua Shaddock. ISBN 978-0-9903586-4-0.

Condition: good; light rubbing and surface marking to the covers, with minor edge and corner wear. Clean interior and secure binding.

Published for Dahn’s exhibition at Venus Over Manhattan, 12 September–26 October 2013. Richard Prince selected paintings, “anti-silkscreens” and two bronze sculptures spanning Dahn’s practice from 1981 onward. The title combines two Bob Dylan songs admired by both artists, framing the exhibition as a return through earlier work, personal memory and shared cultural references.

Dahn was a co-founder of the influential Mülheimer Freiheit group and an early figure in the German painting associated with the Neue Wilde and “Bad Painting.” By the late 1980s, his work had moved increasingly through screenprinting, found imagery, text, popular music and deliberately unstable shifts of style.

Prince first met Dahn during his 1990 exhibition at Gladstone Gallery and subsequently collected his work for more than twenty years. Their connection developed through shared interests in punk and New Wave music, outsider art, appropriation and the movement between supposedly high and low cultural forms. Here Prince appears not simply as curator but as collector, friend and editor of another artist’s history.

The publication compresses that relationship into a small-format book. Dahn’s paintings, drawings and text works are sequenced through Prince’s selection, allowing collecting to become a curatorial method. One artist’s work re-enters circulation through the personal archive of another.

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