Matthias Mansen: About the House
1998, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
A full-color catalogue of work made by German woodcut artist Matthias Mansen while he was living in New York from 1989-1992. The work, About the House, which was shown only in the U.S. at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, is of monumental scale, and depicts an everday, domestic interior, with people going about their tasks and rituals. Unfolding in a cinematic fashion, the viewer “walks” through the house that Mansen creates. The catalogue is illustrated by the artist with original woodblock prints bound into the book.
