Structures for Reading text & the reading body in contemporary art at the Center for Book and Paper Arts

Eva Kotátková, from Parallel Biography(2011) courtesy of hunt kastner, Prague Judith Leemann, Reading Aloud (Installation Mockup) 2013 Moyra Davey, Newstand no. 12, 1994; c-print (courtesy of Murray Guy, New York) Gareth Long, Invented Desk for Copying (Construction Diagram), Liam Gillick Version (2012); courtesy of the collection of Kate Werble Gallery, New York Structures for Reading text & the reading body in contemporary art February 15 - April 6, 2013 Opening Reception: February 22, 5-7    Works by  Jessica Bardsley (Chicago)  Tony Cruz (Puerto Rico)  Moyra Davey (New York)  Matthew Girson (Chicago)  Eva Kotátková (Prague) Sebastian Schmieg/Silvio Lorusso (Berlin)  Liz Sales (New York)  Newly commissioned works by  Sterling Lawrence (Chicago)  Judith Leemann (Boston)  Gareth Long (New York)  Johana Moscoso (Chicago)  Sebura+Gartelmann (Chicago)    On a global scale, the book's identity as both a cultural object and commodity has been rapidly shifting. As image and object, the book has an ubiquitous presence in contemporary art across disciplines.   Oriented around text, (infra)structure and the reading body, Structures for Readingfeatures interdisciplinary artworks thathouse, modulate or mediate books or texts. Many visualize the activity of reading speculative ways, asserting new landscapes for the consumption of knowledge.    Learn more  Johana Moscoso, Delirio / Delirium, 2013