Wade Guyton

'Others have painted with brushes, with light, with sounds, even with metaphors. Wade Guyton paints with an inkjet printer. That sounds cool and ultra-smooth, but it's actually an unusual and exhausting affair. For such a printer, even an industrial model, is not made for such (ab)use. It is supposed to print paper. If it is fed with canvas, the print head at times loses its grip; it produces elisions and streaks. The artist must therefore constantly keep watch over the printing process, readjust the canvas and even pull on it to achieve the desired image.' (Museum Ludwig website, 2010) This artist's book has been published as part of the exhibition at Museum Ludwig, Cologne (April - August 2010). It contains a collection of original book pages that Guyton extracted from catalogues and then printed over with elementary geometric forms. He photographed a stack of the prints against his blue kitchen floor. As the reader turns each page in the book, Guyton takes a drawing from the stack. Like the paintings, here too the reader's movement is linked to that of the artist during production. No text.