Beautiful Madness
Art writing as Art curating
by Mark Kremer

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Author(s)

Mark Kremer

Publication

Amsterdam : Valiz, 2025

Scope

416 Pages, illustrated, 23.5 cm.

ISBN

9789493246362

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Both curating and art writing construct meaningful narratives about artworks and artists, each engages with audiences of viewers and readers, and creates spaces for experiencing art. And both curators and art writers both tap from the primary source: the living artist, their work and world. In Beautiful Madness art writer and curator Mark Kremer considers these practices as vibrant, creative forces with a commitment to nurturing both artists and their creations, in order to forge transformative spaces where art is activated. Beautiful Madness accumulates Kramer’s writings on contemporary art (1993–2023), structured in five topics: Trace; Gesture; Rudiment; Polyphony; Fortitude and mirrors his experiences with art curating, writing, and thinking.

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Person as subject

Absalon (Meir Eshel), Tiong Ang, Christiaan Bastiaans, Harmen Brethouwer, Hugo Canoilas, Lutz Driessen, Helmut Federle, Alicia Framis, Wineke Gartz, Rob Johannesma, Joan Jonas, Mike Kelley, Esther Kläs, Klaas Kloosterboer, Job Koelewijn, André Kruysen, Jos van Merendonk, Almagul Menlibayeva, Aernout Mik, Pieter Laurens Mol, Astrid Nobel, Jan van de Pavert, Roee Rosen, Roland Schimmel, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lorelinde Verhees, Jeff Wall, ...[et al.]

Keywords

curating , art criticism

Location

Cabinet 10 - 4: Kunst ; teksten

Remarks

Includes index, notes, author’s biography