delpire & co is pleased to invite the american artist for a focus on his book-making practice. Guyton is one of those rare artists who consider the book as a means of production. Through the medium of photography, he produces, accumulates, documents and collects images that are then sorted, edited, printed, reprinted and even bound together. Although these books are autonomous projects in their own right, they are sometimes associated with exhibitions or works of art.
For PRINTS ARE BOUND – a focus on the artist’s publishing practice – delpire & co is producing a silkscreen print from an image featured in the seminal book Black Paintings, published in 2011.
Since the early 2000s, Guyton has pursued, with a notable consistency, an investigation into the condition and impact of digital image production. Guyton purposefully misuses his printer by challenging its commands and materials that exceed its design specifications. As a result, the digital work everts its inherent conflicts questioning the conditional nature of its visualization.
In his latest series, Guyton intensifies the interplay between painting and photography by integrating cellphone snapshot of paintings drying on the floor, views of and from the studio, screen captures, and enlarged bitmaps.
Wade Guyton is a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Award in Art (2014); the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts (2004); the Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Grant (2003); the Artists Space Independent Projects Grant (2002); the Delfina Studio Trust, London (2000).
Wade Guyton has had major solo exhibitions at the Museum Ludwig, Koln (2019); Serpentine Gallery, London (2017); Brandhorst Museum, Munich (2017); Museo MADRE, Naples (2017); MAMCO, Geneva (2016); Le Consortium, Dijon & Académie Conti, Vosne-Romanée (2016); Kunsthalle Zürich (2013); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2012-2013); Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2010; the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (2009); Museum d’Arte Moderna Bologna (MAMbo) (2008); the Portikus in Frankfurt am Main (2008); Kunstverein Hamburg (2005), among others.
