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Intricate Others

Nick Mauss - Intricate Others
Invited to forge a dialogue with the unique context of the Art Deco building of the Serralves Villa in Porto, American artist Nick Mauss created works that reflect an encounter with the social and private choreographies of the formerly grand and domestic spaces of the Villa. The catalogue includes an essay by the American author and poet, Lucy Ives and an interview with Nick Mauss, conducted by João Ribas, the exhibition's curator.
Positioning itself in the “interstices between mediums of drawing, printing, sculpture, ceramic, textiles, costume and theatre design,” the work of Nick Mauss is defined by the artist's interest in the ideas of fragmentation and dramaturgy. A common denominator of the various facets of his oeuvre is drawing as an underlying process, which allows the artist to “work with formats that can't be categorized.” Mauss builds his work using objects and forms, and also with bodies and lines.
Developed over the artist's more than year-long engagement with the Villa Serralves, a stunning art deco building built in the 1930s with the intervention of leading architects and interior designers of the time, José Marques da Silva, Jacques Émile Ruhlman, Charles Siclis, René Lalique and Edgar Brandt, “Intricate Others” reflects an encounter with the social and private choreographies of the formerly grand and domestic spaces of the now vacant Villa, where artworks are conceived as visible forms that perform with the presence of the live bodies of their viewers.
Similarly this book, conceived by Mauss and featuring a new essay by Lucy Ives and a conversation between Mauss and the exhibition curator João Ribas, can be considered as one of the enduring works arising from his exhibition in the Villa.
Published following the eponymous exhibition at Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, from June 22 to September 24, 2017.
The diverse artistic practice of Nick Mauss (born 1980 in New York, lives and works in New York and Berlin) encompasses drawing, sculpture and performance along with some curatorial projects that he initiated in the last years. Mauss' oeuvre is characterized by a perpetual state of indeterminacy, in a need of thinking about drawing and painting in an expansive sense. His work is a premeditated confusion where definitive shapes and forms are overlooked in favor of ambiguous semblances.
Text by Lucy Ives, interview with Nick Mauss by João Ribas.
 
published in November 2017
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
24 x 29 cm (softcover)
112 pages (color & b/w ill.)
 
ISBN : 978-972-739-352-7
EAN : 9789727393527
 
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