SIGNED PIETER LAURENS MOL (HIS COPY) "GRAND PROMPTNESS" DAN CAMERON

Description: PIETER LAURENS MOLGrand PromptnessPieter Laurens Mol Edited by Marente BloemheuvelDan Cameron Description: Amsterdam: Artimo Foundation Breda, 2000; First English edition, first printing; Black cloth-covered boards with title debossed on cover and spine; with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Signed by the Pieter Lauren Mol with his address and phone number (his copy). Works in various media by Pieter Laurens Mol. Essays by Dan Cameron, Gary Schwartz and Mark Kremer. Includes a list of works, biography, exhibition history and a bibliography. 324 pp., with 170 four-color and 30 black-and-white plates. 12 x 9-1/2 inches. This first edition was limited to 2000 copies and offers the first overview of Dutch artist Pieter Laurens Mol's career. A substantial monograph that surveys his work from the 1970's to the 1990's. Curator Mark Kremer opens his essay, one of three here on the 50-year-old Dutch artist, with the declaration that "Pieter Laurens Mol is a poet in disguise." Though the inclusion of several of the artist's poems in this catalog betrays the artist's other talent, the statement is nonetheless astute. Trained first as a carpenter, then as a sculptor and photographer, Mol offers a precise and dexterous execution that corresponds to the care taken by a skilled wordsmith. Moreover, while so much of today's conceptual art tends toward easy puns, these intellectually challenging pieces retain not only the aesthetic cohesion but also the complexity of emotion of the Dutch masters whom Mol reveres. Comprising more than 160 well-reproduced works, this volume should attract American fans to this artist who has been long successful throughout Europe. Condition: Near Fine with light shelf-wear present to the extremities; no ownership marks present; text is clean and free of marks; binding tight and solid in Very Good Dust Jacket with some shelf wear (small tears present to the extremities), now protected by a mylar cover. Measurementsheight: 12 incheswidth: 9.5 inchesdepth: 1 inchweight: 4 poundsAdditional Information: Pieter Laurens Mol (born 1946 in Breda, Netherlands) is a Dutch contemporary artist who combines photography, film, painting, drawing, sculpture and installation in his works. In the late sixties, Pieter Laurens Mol embarked on a unique artistic career producing conceptual works in a variety of media: photography, painting, drawing, sculpture and installation. A substantial part of his early photographic oeuvre, dating from the seventies and eighties, consists of images with the inclusion of a self-staging artist. During the nineties the human figure gradually disappears from the scenery and there’s a shift noticeable to more known traditional genres such as landscape and still life, yet these images could equally be experienced as metaphorically charged statements on the “condition humaine”. Dan Cameron (born 1956 in Utica, New York) is an American art curator and the former Chief Curator at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach. Cavemodern was founded in 2005 as a home for important "modern" books and works on paper. "Cave" meant a home for both the tangible touch of beautiful objects and a cozy virtual den for armchair exploration. "Modern" starts with the art and literature that went beyond realistic depictions to expressive use of color, non-traditional materials, and new techniques and mediums. Our focus has evolved to be on important pieces by cultural innovators that take their work in new, unexpected, and modern directions.

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