Paperback, full colour images, 96 pages, W169 x H230mm
Published on the occasion of Suchan Kinoshita’s Das fragment an sich (The fragment in itself) exhibition at Ikon, this catalogue presents text and full colour photographs of a wide selection of works that featured in the 2006-7 show, ranging from early pieces to new commissions. The photographs give a good overview of the exhibition installation process as well as of the finished works and the innovative texts that are interspersed throughout describe some of the philosophical contemplations that underpinned the development of the exhibition.
The text itself is the product of a collaboration between Kinoshita and Bart de Baere, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Antwerp and Chair of the Flemish Council for Culture. It combines fragments from Gertrude Stein’s Composition as Explanation and What Happened, and Peter Handke’s Das Gewicht der Welt. Also included are stills from the video installation and a reproduction of the musical score for Friedrich Nietzsche’s Das Fragment an Sich, the piece of music that inspired the piece of work and title of the exhibition.