The catalog shows Bader's practice, which is based on the inclusion of different elements - consuming objects, words, images, animals, persons - that generate concrete, imaginary, real and fictional relations. He removes meaning, yet adds new levels of understanding to works, objects, and (possible, or often impossible) descriptions, and manages to lend an original twist to a practice whose meaning can be sought in the carefully arranged inclusion of all the components of the art system: the work, the artist, the gallery owner, the collector, the exhibition visitor and readers of art texts.
Authors: Negar Azimi, Tess Edmonson, Peter Eleey, Bruce Hainley, Luca Lo Pinto, Andrew Norman Wilson, Dena Yago
Title: Darren Bader
Publisher: Walther König
Year: 2017
Language: English
Specifications: hardback, 148 pages, 229 color llustrations, 222 mm x 185 mm