Intervention
Maloney, Martin
Brussels. Galerie MTL. 1971
An excellent copy of Martin Maloney's artist book, the sole record of his 1971 exhibition at Galerie MTL.
Martin Maloney (1938-2003) has been largely forgotten and omitted from art history; the American artist is all but invisible in institutional collections of the conceptual art he participated in from an early stage.
For him, the gallery’s symbolic ‘white walls’ needed to be fought, resisted and shown for what they were. In 1971, he locked himself in the confines of the MTL gallery in Brussels for five days and nights. His solitary act and refusal to allow the gallery space its role in visual presentation was the ‘exhibition’. This small publication features the texts he wrote during his stay in the gallery and remains the only material trace of his rigourous act.
'moving from the private to the public / moving within through an intervention / moving from the public to the private ... the artist in reversal of the process / as by a self disruptive determination / directed toward the logic of location / chooses to actualize by a dislocation'. (From Maloney's statements).
Martin Maloney (1938-2003) has been largely forgotten and omitted from art history; the American artist is all but invisible in institutional collections of the conceptual art he participated in from an early stage.
For him, the gallery’s symbolic ‘white walls’ needed to be fought, resisted and shown for what they were. In 1971, he locked himself in the confines of the MTL gallery in Brussels for five days and nights. His solitary act and refusal to allow the gallery space its role in visual presentation was the ‘exhibition’. This small publication features the texts he wrote during his stay in the gallery and remains the only material trace of his rigourous act.
'moving from the private to the public / moving within through an intervention / moving from the public to the private ... the artist in reversal of the process / as by a self disruptive determination / directed toward the logic of location / chooses to actualize by a dislocation'. (From Maloney's statements).
pp. (28). 8vo. (135 x 108 mm). Artist statement to front wrapper, leaf with title, verso and following leaves with Maloney's texts Original publisher's tan printed wrappers, stapled as issued, printed text to covers in black.
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