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Sterling Ruby -
Reference monograph.
Second edition of the monograph published in 2009 (ISBN 978-3-03764-010-4).
The multitude of media and techniques used by Sterling Ruby (born 1972 in Bitburg, Germany, lives and works in Los Angeles) in his work—ranging from sculpture to collage, installation to painting, ceramics to video and printing—reflects the issues he tackles: the conflict between individual impulses and mechanisms of social control, the coercive function of architectonic space, art as the domain of irrationality, the sphere of dysfunctional behavior, Minimalism and Art Brut, Graffiti art, urban violence, desire, and pleasure.
His works combine memory of the past with attention to contemporary urban and popular phenomena. It is an art of expression and accumulation, of the overproduction of information and of the delirium of the senses, of neurosis and paranoia, and where the gigantism of the shapes and their proliferation appear like a corrupt manifestation of desire, consumption, anxiety, and the need for control that characterizes contemporary occidental culture.

See also Kaleidoscope #27 – Sterling Ruby Takeover.
Edited by Alessandro Rabottini.
Texts by Jörg Heiser, Robert Hobbs, Alessandro Rabottini, Sterling Ruby, Catherine Taft.
 
published in June 2014
English edition
23,8 x 28,6 cm (softcover)
168 pages (71 color & 4 b/w ill.)
 
40.00
 
ISBN : 978-3-03764-375-4
EAN : 9783037643754
 
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