{"id":49447,"date":"2021-10-22T14:48:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T13:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=49447"},"modified":"2021-10-25T16:58:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T15:58:25","slug":"david-maroto-the-artists-novel-the-novel-as-a-medium-in-the-visual-arts-in-conversation-with-krist-gruijthuijsen-wed-27-october-2021-8pm-motto-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=49447","title":{"rendered":"David Maroto \u2013 The Artist\u2019s Novel: The Novel as a Medium in the Visual Arts | In conversation with Krist Gruijthuijsen | 27.10.2021, 8pm @ Motto Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n<\/strong>Photo credit: Anna Azzali. Courtesy of Mousse Publishing.<\/em><\/h6>\n

Book launch:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Artist\u2019s Novel: The Novel as a Medium in the Visual Arts<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

David Maroto<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

In conversation with Krist Gruijthuijsen<\/p>\n

Wednesday, 27 October 2021, 8pm<\/p>\n

Motto Berlin
\nSkalitzer Str. 68, im Hinterhof
\n10997 Berlin<\/p>\n

Publication in two volumes:<\/p>\n

Part 1. A New Medium <\/em>(theoretical essay)<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 2. The Fantasy of the Novel <\/em>(novel)
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\n<\/a>Why do artists write novels? What does the artist\u2019s novel do to the visual arts? How should such a novel be experienced? In recent years, there has been a proliferation of visual artists who create novels as part of their wider art projects. They do so in order to address artistic issues by means of novelistic devices, favoring a sort of art predicated on process and subjectivity, introducing notions such as fiction, narrative, and imagination. In this sense, it is possible to speak of a new medium in the visual arts; yet, very little is known about it.<\/p>\n

Join us for an evening of discussion during the launch of David Maroto\u2019s The Artist\u2019s Novel: The Novel as a Medium in the Visual Arts <\/em>(Mousse Publishing, 2020). This two-volume book is the first to explore in depth the subject of the artist\u2019s novel. Part 1: A New Medium<\/em> aims to critically elucidate the pressing questions posed by the emergence of a new artistic medium with a theoretical approach to a number of key case studies.<\/p>\n

Part 2: The Fantasy of the Novel<\/em> is a research project in the form of a novel, which examines the process of creation of an artist\u2019s novel. The protagonist is in the position of a detective who tries to understand the conditions under which an artist decides to write, and how such a thing is possible within an artistic setting.<\/p>\n

Curator and art critic Krist Gruijthuijsen will accompany David in the discussion in order to examine the different ways contemporary artists have employed the artist\u2019s novel, and its impact on the curatorial and institutional context in which it appears and with which it interacts.<\/p>\n

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Bios<\/strong><\/p>\n

David Maroto<\/strong> is a Spanish visual artist based in the Netherlands and a PhD from the Edinburgh College of Art, with an extensive international artistic practice. In 2011,<\/em> he spent time at a\u00a0residency in ISCP New York,<\/em> where he met curator Joanna Zieli\u0144ska and began a\u00a0collaboration called The Book Lovers,<\/em> a\u00a0research project based on the creation of a collection and bibliography of artists’ novels with the continuous support of M HKA (Antwerp). This collaboration has enabled them to engage with a host of international institutions. David has published numerous articles and edited various publications, including Artist Novels<\/em> (Sternberg Press, 2015); Tamam Shud<\/em> (Sternberg Press, 2018); and Obieg Magazine no. 8, ‘Art & Literature: A Mongrel’s Guide<\/a>‘ (2018).<\/p>\n

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Krist Gruijthuijsen <\/strong>is a curator, art critic, and director of KW Institute for Contemporary Art. He was artistic director of the Grazer Kunstverein in Graz in 2012\u201316 and has been course director of the MA fine arts department at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam since 2011. He is one of the co-founding directors of Kunstverein in Amsterdam and has organised numerous exhibitions and projects over the past decade, including Manifesta 7 (Trentino-South Tyrol,IT), Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center (Istanbul), Artists Space (New York), Swiss Institute (New York), Galeria Vermelho (S\u00e3o Paulo), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), Arnolfini (Bristol, UK), Project Arts Centre (Dublin), Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (Salt Lake City, US), and Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane). Gruijthuijsen has produced, edited, and published extensively with JRP|Ringier Sternberg Press, Mousse Publishing, Printed Matter, Walther K\u00f6nig, and Kunstverein Publishing, among which The Encyclopaedia of Fictional Artists <\/em>(JRP|Ringier, 2010).<\/p>\n

This project is possible thanks to the generous support of the Mondriaan Fund.
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Photo credit: Anna Azzali. Courtesy of Mousse Publishing. Book launch: The Artist\u2019s Novel: The Novel as a Medium in the Visual Arts David Maroto In conversation with Krist Gruijthuijsen Wednesday, 27 October 2021, 8pm Motto Berlin Skalitzer Str. 68, im Hinterhof 10997 Berlin Publication in two volumes: Part 1. A New Medium (theoretical essay) Part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,84],"tags":[6393,6394,6395,6396],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49447"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49447"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49472,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49447\/revisions\/49472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}