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<\/a>\nTo mark the New York launch of his recent publication \u2018K, Berlin-based artist Karl Holmqvist will give a reading at Artists Space : Books & Talks.<\/p>\n
Holmqvist\u2019s work centers on the printed and spoken word, extracting meaning out of often oblique textual arrangements with tools such as humor, repetition and vocal cadence. Forsaking linearity for a networked approach to language, Holmqvist\u2019s \u201cwriting\u201d connects words through their printed aesthetic qualities and aural pronunciations. A collage of cultural references and quotidian language implicates a direct call and response with the matter of contemporary life. To produce \u2018K, a large part of the book\u2019s material was also gathered as \u201cloans\u201d from historical movements that emphasized a graphic and visual approach to text, such as Futurism, Vorticism, and Lettrism, as well as from the work of contemporary artists such as Shannon Ebner and Ferdinand Kriwet.<\/p>\n
Holmqvist’s work has been shown at Bergen Kunsthall, Norway (2012); \u00c9tablissement d’en face projects, Brussels (2012); Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2010); and included in Ecstatic Alphabets\/Heaps of Language at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2011).<\/p>\n
‘K is designed by the artist along with Joshua Schenkel, and published as a collaboration between Kunsthalle Z\u00fcrich and Bergen Kunsthall, with JRP Ringier.<\/p>\n
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