Erik Thys, Portraits. CAC Vilnius & kim? Riga
Posted in Uncategorized on April 29th, 2017Tags: Anthony Huberman, Erik Thys., kim?, Robert Snowden CAC VIlnius, Scott Ponik
Erik Thys, Portraits
“The reputation of Erik Thys (b. 1961) rests on his work as a psychiatrist, not as an artist. Thys lives in Brussels where he composes music, draws, and practices in two psychiatric hospitals. On the occasion of this book, Thys invited a colleague, the British psychoanalyst Darian Leader, to reflect on his infatuation with automobiles. The drawings in this book are a small, almost pitiful, portion of the number Erik Thys provided. They came to us on all types of office paper, prescription pads, and whatever else was at hand.”
Edited and produced by Anthony Huberman, Scott Ponik, Robert Snowden
Imagework by Brandi Kruse
Print supervision by Jurgis Griškevičius
Proofread by Hope Svenson
Printed by Petro ofsetas, Vilnius, Lithuania
Published in 2016 by Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius; and kim? Contemporary Art Center, Riga as a part of the XII Baltic Triennial
Additional support is generously provided by Dr. Florian Seidl and Kunstverein München
