Richard Rezac: Address - Hardcover

The title of Richard Rezac&;s Renaissance Society exhibition, Address, plays on the multivalent quality of the word. As a noun, it refers to a unique identifier of a precise location. As a verb, it refers to a form of communication crafted for a specific people, time, and place. This exhibition drew upon both elements of the word&;s two meanings: the artist deliberately created and selected works in response to the architecture of the Renaissance Society&;s gallery space, and the title also nods to the sculptures&; relationship to their presumptive audience.
This book showcases twenty pieces featured in the exhibition that are made of a wide range of materials including cherry wood, cast bronze, and aluminum and that span Rezac&;s career&;including newly commissioned pieces.s Through the concept of address, the exhibit and book explore the artist&;s ongoing engagement with both tangible, mathematical ordering systems and the elusive mechanisms of memory and interpretation.  This publication continues Rezac&;s address, extending it to a greater audience of readers through a generous selection of images, a conversation between the artist and curator Solveig Øvstebø, and new texts by Matthew Goulish, Jennifer R. Gross, and James Rondeau.