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STATEMENT 1 Nobody Should Disturb Me Because I Want To Be Alone and Think about Everything Carefully 2 To Move Seems To Be a Genre 4 Everyone Walked, a Period 6 Riding on the Edge of a River 8 Joking with Several Scientific Actions of Violence 10 Watching Was Wearing the Body as a Shout in Space and Time 12 BIO 21
STATEMENT First exhibited in my 2013 solo installation Foot | Knots, the Spines series is composed of six sculptural works created to represent this portion of the book in the super-composite, ISBN-ed exhibition that inhabited an LES gallery for a month. Made completely from various recycled books affixed to 12�x90� canvases, the individual works re-imagine poetry as an ever-changing instantiation of text and can be read in endless ways. The title for each work, in fact, was created only from words found in the work.
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Nobody Should Disturb Me Because I Want To Be Alone and Think about Everything Carefully 12” x 90” x 4” $1200
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To Move Seems To Be a Genre 12” x 90” x 4” $1800
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Everyone Walked, a Period 12" x 90" x 4"
$1,200 (sold)
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Riding on the Edge of a River 12” x 90” x 4” $900 (sold)
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Joking with Several Scientific Actions of Violence 12” x 90” x 4” $1500
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Watching Was Wearing the Body as a Shout in Space and Time 12” x 90” x 4” $1500 (destroyed)
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BIO
Joseph A. W. Quintela is a poet, artist, publisher, and artorganizer working at the fault lines emergent in the face of post-textual and post-productive modes of living. With a particular interest in material excess, systemic collapse, and generative revitalization, his practice harnesses a fluency in a variety of media including paint, light, books, text, and culinary ingredients. Solo exhibitions in New York have included Portrait of the Cast of You in Eye (Dumbo Sky, 2013) and FOOT | KNOTS (Project Space Envelope, 2012). He has organized exhibitions for Undercurrent Projects (Books Without Words, 2014), Terrazzo Art Projects (Se Cayo Todo, 2014), and the Brooklyn-based Pop-Up initiative Smith&Jones. Ongoing displays of his work are housed at The Strand, Central Booking (LES), and Salina’s Restaurant (Chelsea). Website:
www.josephquintela.com More Work at Central Booking: http://centralbookingnyc.com/galleries/gallery-1-artistbooks-prints/artists-work/joseph-a-w-quintel/
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