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Caragh Thuring
2014
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Watch
Caragh Thuring
2014
London: Self-published
Unpaginated [742 pages]
22.5 × 18.2 cm
Edition of 10; signed and numbered 8/10

Meticulously orchestrated, Caragh Thuring’s artist’s books counterbalance the more chaotic and visceral construction of her paintings. Systematic and precise, Watch binds together a selection of watch advertisements that the artist collected from The Financial Times over nearly a decade.


 


Produced for her 2015 exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery in London, the book reveals the recurring narratives through which this particular commodity is presented: family, heritage, ambition, success, and wealth. What first appears as a sequential archive of watches, gradually becomes a portrait of the values and desires embedded within their marketing. The watch is thus depicted as a marker of the social and economic conditions of its own moment in time.


 


Sophisticated in form and concept, WATCH is hand-bound and produced in an edition of ten copies. Thuring sourced the paper stock from the printers of The Financial Times, giving the book’s thin, pale pages an immediately recognisable quality for UK readers.


 


Both a timepiece and a time-based artwork, Watch resonates with Jaroslaw Kozlowski’s Three Thirty and Fifty One(1989) and Christian Marclay’s The Clock (2010), works from the collection that similarly transform time from a measure of experience into a cultural and aesthetic object.

London: Self-published
Unpaginated [742 pages]
22.5 × 18.2 cm
Edition of 10; signed and numbered 8/10

Meticulously orchestrated, Caragh Thuring’s artist’s books counterbalance the more chaotic and visceral construction of her paintings. Systematic and precise, Watch binds together a selection of watch advertisements that the artist collected from The Financial Times over nearly a decade.

 

Produced for her 2015 exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery in London, the book reveals the recurring narratives through which this particular commodity is presented: family, heritage, ambition, success, and wealth. What first appears as a sequential archive of watches, gradually becomes a portrait of the values and desires embedded within their marketing. The watch is thus depicted as a marker of the social and economic conditions of its own moment in time.

 

Sophisticated in form and concept, WATCH is hand-bound and produced in an edition of ten copies. Thuring sourced the paper stock from the printers of The Financial Times, giving the book’s thin, pale pages an immediately recognisable quality for UK readers.

 

Both a timepiece and a time-based artwork, Watch resonates with Jaroslaw Kozlowski’s Three Thirty and Fifty One(1989) and Christian Marclay’s The Clock (2010), works from the collection that similarly transform time from a measure of experience into a cultural and aesthetic object.

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Meticulously orchestrated, Caragh Thuring’s artist’s books counterbalance the more chaotic and visceral construction of her paintings. Systematic and precise, Watch binds together a selection of watch advertisements that the artist collected from The Financial Times over nearly a decade.

 

Produced for her 2015 exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery in London, the book reveals the recurring narratives through which this particular commodity is presented: family, heritage, ambition, success, and wealth. What first appears as a sequential archive of watches, gradually becomes a portrait of the values and desires embedded within their marketing. The watch is thus depicted as a marker of the social and economic conditions of its own moment in time.

 

Sophisticated in form and concept, WATCH is hand-bound and produced in an edition of ten copies. Thuring sourced the paper stock from the printers of The Financial Times, giving the book’s thin, pale pages an immediately recognisable quality for UK readers.

 

Both a timepiece and a time-based artwork, Watch resonates with Jaroslaw Kozlowski’s Three Thirty and Fifty One(1989) and Christian Marclay’s The Clock (2010), works from the collection that similarly transform time from a measure of experience into a cultural and aesthetic object.

London: Self-published
Unpaginated [742 pages]
22.5 × 18.2 cm
Edition of 10; signed and numbered 8/10

Meticulously orchestrated, Caragh Thuring’s artist’s books counterbalance the more chaotic and visceral construction of her paintings. Systematic and precise, Watch binds together a selection of watch advertisements that the artist collected from The Financial Times over nearly a decade.

 

Produced for her 2015 exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery in London, the book reveals the recurring narratives through which this particular commodity is presented: family, heritage, ambition, success, and wealth. What first appears as a sequential archive of watches, gradually becomes a portrait of the values and desires embedded within their marketing. The watch is thus depicted as a marker of the social and economic conditions of its own moment in time.

 

Sophisticated in form and concept, WATCH is hand-bound and produced in an edition of ten copies. Thuring sourced the paper stock from the printers of The Financial Times, giving the book’s thin, pale pages an immediately recognisable quality for UK readers.

 

Both a timepiece and a time-based artwork, Watch resonates with Jaroslaw Kozlowski’s Three Thirty and Fifty One(1989) and Christian Marclay’s The Clock (2010), works from the collection that similarly transform time from a measure of experience into a cultural and aesthetic object.

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Meticulously orchestrated, Caragh Thuring’s artist’s books counterbalance the more chaotic and visceral construction of her paintings. Systematic and precise, Watch binds together a selection of watch advertisements that the artist collected from The Financial Times over nearly a decade.

 

Produced for her 2015 exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery in London, the book reveals the recurring narratives through which this particular commodity is presented: family, heritage, ambition, success, and wealth. What first appears as a sequential archive of watches, gradually becomes a portrait of the values and desires embedded within their marketing. The watch is thus depicted as a marker of the social and economic conditions of its own moment in time.

 

Sophisticated in form and concept, WATCH is hand-bound and produced in an edition of ten copies. Thuring sourced the paper stock from the printers of The Financial Times, giving the book’s thin, pale pages an immediately recognisable quality for UK readers.

 

Both a timepiece and a time-based artwork, Watch resonates with Jaroslaw Kozlowski’s Three Thirty and Fifty One(1989) and Christian Marclay’s The Clock (2010), works from the collection that similarly transform time from a measure of experience into a cultural and aesthetic object.

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