Alex Klein

Myths of the Marble Alex Klein

Myths of the Marble documents a group exhibition that took place in 2017 at the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway (HOK) and the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania (ICA). Cocurated by Alex Klein (ICA) and Milena Hoegsberg (HOK), the exhibition reflects upon how the "virtual" has been engaged by contemporary artists as a way to consider the world as a site of possibility and limitation that both permeates physical space and online experience.

The book features individual profiles of each artist, generously illustrated with images of works spanning painting, sculpture, and installation to video, 16-mm film, and VR technology, as well as exhibition views from both venues. Homay King and Tom Holert each provide essays that meditate upon how virtuality in its various forms offer radical reconfigurations of the body, ecology, and architectural space at a moment when the capacity to depict the world has never been greater, and where reality is itself increasingly articulated as a construction. Rounding out the book is a discussion between artists Cayetano Ferrer, Florian Meisenberg, and Sondra Perry with art historians Iggy Cortez and Marina Isgro, which delves into concepts ranging from the video game "skybox" to the complexities of the "prosthetic."

Copublished with the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter and the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania

ContributorsIggy Cortez, Cayetano Ferrer, Roksana Filipowska, Ane Graff, Milena Hoegsberg, Tom Holert, Charlotte Ickes, Marina Isgro, Rachel de Joode, Homay King, Alex Klein, Ignas Krunglevicius, Chris Marker, Daria Martin, Florian Meisenberg, Shahryar Nashat, Sondra Perry, Jacolby Satterwhite, Susanne M. Winterling