Ben Wolf Noam - Work Portraits Portrait Work
| Author | Dean Kissick, Laura Adler, Gabriel Winant, Ashley Mears, ea |
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| Publisher | Zolo Press |
| ISBN | 9798990911345 |
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In contemporary art, “work” and “pleasure” often merge, with labour becoming a “labour of love” where enjoyment is seen as reward enough. Ben Wolf Noam’s Work Portraits Portrait Work navigates this terrain, offering both a visual study of work in the cultural field and a personal artistic statement. The book features 60 painted portraits of friends - artists, musicians, chefs, filmmakers, writers, and academics - captured in their workspaces. It reflects on the complexities of creative labour, exploring themes of subjectivity, collectivity, and belonging. As Dean Kissick notes in one of four commissioned texts (alongside Laura Adler, Gabriel Winant, and Ashley Mears), “art is a communal project.” The book becomes not just a document of a moment and milieu - often intimate, familiar settings - but also a poetic vision of them. The portrayed form a community, one that becomes central to Noam’s idea of what making art today might mean.
| 110 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 34 cm, hb, English |
Zolo Press
