RYAN TRECARTIN BOOK


Multimedia artist Ryan Trecartin, the ingenious mastermind behind the feature-length “movies” I-Be Area and A Family Finds Entertainment, is the somewhat surprising subject of a new monograph from Rizzoli, to be released in conjunction with the world tour of his newest work, the four-hour magnum opus Any Ever. His work is a manic, hyperbolic explosion of digital media, festering with crypto-adolescent Internet jargon and stylized with garish costuming from our present future. One can barely conceive of his work without diving headfirst into it with headphones. But the book is a prayer answered for those countless times you wish you could replay nonsensical non sequiturs such as “Please don’t accept your progressaphobias in work flow by brand washing my global blanky with same page.” Trecartin’s hectic movies are condensed into a layout that reads like a brochure for the underbelly of the information age. Pull-quotes from the movies are scattered across screenshots and interspersed with photographs of installations from exhibition venues. While the book is by no means a substitute for the singular experience of seeing his work in the flesh, it lends some clarity to the particularly paradoxical work of one of our generation’s most iconic artists.

Ryan Trecartin is out Tuesday from Rizzoli.

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