Alex Israel: Self-Portrait (Green Beard) Ester Coen perfect-bound volumes with metallic silver

perfect-bound volumes with metallic silver covers and a color lithograph

Edited by Thomas D

Man Ray “rectified” the form of the first-century BCE original by twining rope around its body in a fetishistic allusion to the Marquis de Sade

the artist’s first solo exhibition in Asia

this two-volume set documents the presentation of five new sculptures and more than twenty drawings by the artist

Alex Israel: Self-Portrait (Green Beard) Ester Coen perfect-bound volumes with metallic silverIn Self Portrait (Green Beard) (2017), a print produced by Mixografia, Alex Israel depicts his own sunglasses clad face in profile, replacing his features with smoothly gradated color fields. Editioned in six different color combinations, Self Portrait features a white outline of the artists head in raised relief with a hollow, contoured interior. Making use of a 1980s style palette that juxtaposes neon and pastel hues, Israel evokes the distinctive