Christopher Wool

The textual works of Christopher Wool. Begun in 1987, these works illustrate the limitations of language and its symbolic meaning, in such a way that the word, understood as a plastic material in painting, never returns to the origin of its meaning. From his earliest work, Wool's basic interest has resided in reconsidering the image: his work has followed a trajectory that is at once historically reflexive, very much of its own moment, and keenly self-critical in itstaking on the history, conventions and problematics of making a painting in the 1980s and 90s - embodying and encouraging its own contradictions. Catalog to the exhibition (2006). Spanish/English texts. Addenda. Color/b&w illus. 244p.