Space for contemporary art

Looking for painting…amidst a thousand other things

Linda Marie Walker

The book is about Aldo Iacobelliโ€™s work, which is to say, about painting. But it is also about many other things beyond painting, โ€œa thousand other thingsโ€ as the title suggests. In the book Walker writes about particular works, about exhibitions (some of which she curated), about writing itself. There are quotations from many writers. There is correspondence between Walker and Iacobelli. There are lists of works in Iacobelliโ€™s various exhibitions. There is Iacobelliโ€™s ragu recipe. There are reflections on the process of writing about painting and imagery, and the incommensurability of pictorial and textual modes of representation. There are profuse footnotes. There are insights into the process of curating Iacobelliโ€™s work, and what curating can be. The book is illustrated with drawings and inscriptions: these are taken from Iacobelliโ€™s sketchbooks, and date from the 1980s onwards, which is to say, from throughout his career as an artist, they are reproduced to size in the book.

109pp
Black and white
Swiss binding
Limited edition of 200 copies
Contains 45 illustrations by Aldo Iacobelli
Introduction by Michael Newall
Published by The Little Machine

Price range: $30.00 through $50.00