All the things I love are going to Disintegrate at The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh from 2nd to 24th December 2009
at The Museum of Art and Design, New York until April 2010. Visit www.madmuseum.org for details.
Shredding the Word: Books and Language
The artists in this section respond to paper as a carrier of the written word, using their knives and scissors to modify, subvert, or celebrate the text printed on a page. Scottish artist Georgia Russell shredded Gombrich’s The Story of Art, flaying its pages and preserving it under a glass bubble, like a taxidermy specimen. British artist Su Blackwell elicits childhood memories of favorite readings, as she cuts up old books, turning them into delicate and fragile three-dimensional dreamscapes.