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Published by David Zwirner Books/52 Walker
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About The Book
The third title in the Clarion series features the Amsterdam-based artist Nora Turato and her vibrant enamel panels that magnify the omnipresence of text, design, and speech in our contemporary culture.
“Meticulous as Helen and tricky as Odysseus, the artist invites us first to misread the slick surfaces and humor of her works as effortless, then forces us to attend to the laborious practices they belie, the histories and possibilities of that effort.” —Art in America
Originally trained as a graphic designer, Nora Turato adapts text to subvert and create messages. Although many of Turato’s performances and works appear to be drafted by free association, she meticulously and thoughtfully edits them to evoke a sense of alluring confusion. In three signature murals with a bespoke typeface, Turato addresses the inundation of language, typography, and graphic design in our contemporary culture, whether in the news, on social media, or in advertisements.
Published on the occasion of Turato’s widely popular exhibition govern me harder at 52 Walker, this publication features texts by Ebony L. Haynes and Anna Kats. Serving as an extension of the exhibition, performance scripts by the artist are also included in this publication. As described in The Brooklyn Rail, “In the slick sea of graphic smoothness and language lost from meaning, something has still been irrefutably made.”
“Meticulous as Helen and tricky as Odysseus, the artist invites us first to misread the slick surfaces and humor of her works as effortless, then forces us to attend to the laborious practices they belie, the histories and possibilities of that effort.” —Art in America
Originally trained as a graphic designer, Nora Turato adapts text to subvert and create messages. Although many of Turato’s performances and works appear to be drafted by free association, she meticulously and thoughtfully edits them to evoke a sense of alluring confusion. In three signature murals with a bespoke typeface, Turato addresses the inundation of language, typography, and graphic design in our contemporary culture, whether in the news, on social media, or in advertisements.
Published on the occasion of Turato’s widely popular exhibition govern me harder at 52 Walker, this publication features texts by Ebony L. Haynes and Anna Kats. Serving as an extension of the exhibition, performance scripts by the artist are also included in this publication. As described in The Brooklyn Rail, “In the slick sea of graphic smoothness and language lost from meaning, something has still been irrefutably made.”
Product Details
- Publisher: David Zwirner Books/52 Walker (September 12, 2023)
- Length: 96 pages
- ISBN13: 9781644230862
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Raves and Reviews
“Treating words as found objects or sculptural material, Turato paints decontextualized snippets of language — culled from sources including social media posts and exhibition press releases — onto multipart steel panels or directly onto the gallery wall.”
– Hyperallergic
“govern me harder asks us about the health of our tools for making and conveying meaning, and particularly how we might salvage and restore the unique potency of words to communicate novelty rather than reproduce ever-glossier iterations of something we have seen before.”
– The Brooklyn Rail
“Torato shows us how language can be expanded outside coherency, finding its own freedom.”
– Cura Magazine
“No artist dominated New York this spring quite like Nora Turato.”
– ARTnews
“Although Turato’s works have a commercially slick appearance, they were stencilled and painted by hand—perhaps it’s that arduous process that lends her open-ended found phrases their strangely intimate, incantatory quality.”
– The New Yorker
“graphically dazzling exhibition...”
– The New Yorker
“We are living in an inter-textual world, Turato seems to wink at us, and she is an intertextual girl."
– Homme Girls
“Meticulous as Helen and tricky as Odysseus, the artist invites us first to misread the slick surfaces and humor of her works as effortless, then forces us to attend to the laborious practices they belie, the histories and possibilities of that effort.”
– Art in America
“In Turato’s world, print and performance are an inseparable and insufferable couple with words between them.”
– Cultured Magazine
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