Jan De Cock - Denkmal II: isbn 9080842427 - Hardcover

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Jan De Cock develops his oeuvre in time and space, and however taking different forms, it forms one coherent entity.
An important artistic consideration the artist made for the book is the element of the sequence. Books bring the fourth dimension time into art. The artist controls the sequence the viewer has to follow when viewing the work. This is also what De Cock aims at in his sculptural work. The contact between the viewer and the book can be very intense. It is the artist creating a motion, as in cinema. Furthermore, the book is a 'gesamtkunstwerk': it is plastic art, graphic art, sculpture, literature and architecture braught together in one object. It is a Trojan horse: people observe a book differently from a work of art.
De Cock's work of the last two years has been included in the book, especially his recent solo-exhibition at Tate Modern occupies a prominent place. This exhibition can be seen as a synthesis of his previous work. It formed an ending to a period and manifested itself meanwhile as a new form of a retrospective. The works itself from the previous period were not rebuilt, but the exhibition showed the acquired insights and the continuously evolving formal language.

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