The monograph, Anne Wenzel – Prospects of Perception, is published by Lecturis in collaboration with TENT and designed by 75B. A conversation between Anne Wenzel and Philippe Van Cauteren forms the core of this voluminous book, accompanied by texts from Sjarel Ex (director of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen), Daria de Beauvais (curator of The Opaque Palace at TENT and curator at Palais de Tokyo, Paris) and Mariette Dölle (artistic director TENT), and documentation of Wenzel’s most important works from the past decade.
During the Book Launch on 27 February, Saskia van Kampen-Prein (Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen) will talk with Anne Wenzel about the major themes in her ceramic sculptures and installations – power, destruction, heroism, history – and they will delve deeper into her self-determined approach to handling materials and technique. As the city curator, she has previously curated a solo presentation of work by Anne Wenzel. The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen later purchased Untitled (black girl). The designers, 75B, will leaf through the book,Rob van Gameren of The Yes Please will give an acoustic performance and a video portrait of Anne Wenzel by Mels van Zutphen will be premiered.
Anne Wenzel’s solo exhibition continues at TENT until 5 May
The monograph is parallel to The Opaque Palace solo exhibition; a total installation in which the monumental sculptures of Anne Wenzel provide a coherent representation of the major themes in her work – power, destruction, heroism, history – and a new series of sculptures are introduced. For more than ten years, Anne Wenzel (DE, lives and works in Rotterdam) has been working on distinctive monumental ceramic sculptures and installations where beauty competes with decay, figuration with abstraction, and power with destruction.
Anne Wenzel – Prospects of Perception is available from TENT and all good bookshops for €32.50 (ISBN: 978-94-6226-057-3).
Spoken language: Dutch