Ed Ruscha: New Wood, Old Wood Mindy Seu when the netsuke were hidden

when the netsuke were hidden from the Nazis in Vienna

This publication features over twenty works on view in the exhibition and a new text by Claire Gilman

Inspired by the landmark modernist house of writer Curzio Malaparte (1898–1957)—isolated on a rocky outcrop on the uninhabited side of the island—Grotjahn inaugurated the series with a group of works titled New Capri

Pictured and discussed are entries from the Tall Glass series of illuminated glass planes

and Tim Marlow examines this body of work from multiple perspectives

Ed Ruscha: New Wood, Old Wood Mindy Seu when the netsuke were hiddenThe relief prints in this diptych by Ed Ruscha derive from a weatherworn piece of wood that the artist found in the desert near Joshua Tree National Park. Using a proprietary process for printing high relief works they first developed in the 1970s, the Los Angelesbased workshop Mixografia made soft impressions of the wood which Ruscha then manipulated, prying apart the crack in the old plank and sealing it in the new one. The images are printed on