Editor from p. [681]. "Published in conjunction with a two-part exhibition at the new Saatchi Gallery in London"--Jacket. Essay by Meghan Dailey. Includes bibliographical references (page 13). Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2009.
Contents:
David Herbert -- Rebecca Warren -- Thomas Houseago -- Rachel Harrison -- Molly Larkey -- Ryan Johnson -- Nathan Mabry -- Ryan Trecartin -- Allison Smith -- Lara Schnitger -- Kader Attia -- Huma Bhabha -- Folkert de Jong -- Daphne Fitzpatrick -- Guerra de la Paz -- Alina & Jeff Bliumis -- Jon Pylypchuk -- Francis Upritchard -- Erick Swenson -- Jorge Mayet -- Stephanie Taylor -- Berlinde de Bruyckere -- Matt Johnson -- Tom Burr -- Peter Coffin -- Bozidar Brazda -- Dan Attoe -- Jacob Dahl Jürgensen -- Peter Buggenhout -- Sarah Braman -- Florian Roithmayr -- Daved Batchelor -- Olaf Breuning -- William J. O'Brien -- Sterling Ruby -- Tamuna Sirbiladze --Dan Colen -- Agathe Snow -- Matthew Monahan -- Paul Lee -- Gedi Sibony -- Karla Black -- Christian Holstad -- Will Ryman -- Jessica Jackson Hutchins -- Kirsten Stoltmann -- Josephine Meckseper -- Andro Wekua -- Sean Raspet --Mateo Tannatt -- Halsey Rodman -- Terence Koh -- Banks Violette -- Alice Könitz -- Patrick Hill -- Conrad Shawcross -- Nobuko Tsuchiya -- Michael Delucia -- Jedediah Caesar -- Ian Kiaer -- Kaz Oshiro -- Macrae Semens -- Stephen G. Rhodes -- Gosha Ostretsov -- Andy Yoder.
Summary:
"This book - the largest on contemporary sculpture yet to appear - is itself an object. The sequence of nearly 700 pages creates, as its title, suggests, an artistic vision of the future. The novel by H.G. Wells, to which the title refers, envisioned events up to the twenty-second century and served both as a surprisingly accurate prophecy and a reflection of the author's own time. The book was a touchstone for Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), in which a great monolith stands as an iconic but enigmatic sculptured presence. This new book opens with an enormous standing monolithic styrofoam sculpture of a video cassette of 2001." "Unlike other contemporary art, the work of sculpture never simply represents a concept or a metaphor. It is an object, Meghan Daily describes in her introduction how the objects presented here are derived from every conceivable material and vary from abstract arrangements to re-configurations of everyday forms in magnificent transformation of the mundane, such as giant electric sockets, and ultimately to the recurring theme of the human body. Though the objects are laid out like mysterious archaeological artifacts, they suggest traces of future worlds as much as they reflect the weird substance of the present. They are presented as if the reader was, in fact, a visitor from another planet and the objects here displayed constitute the monumental evidence of our lives."--Jacket.
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