Aaron Schuman - Slant Reissue

Aaron Schuman - Slant ReissueMACK 2019 If you opened the local newspaper in the small New England town of Amherst, Massachusetts, as Aaron Schuman did one day, you might find a section entitled Police Reports succinct and extraordinarily anticlimactic accounts of crimes, suspicious activities, events and non events reported in the area during the previous week. In SLANT, Schuman interweaves a selection of these clippings published between 2014 2018, with quietly wry photographs

and installation

sold through three editions

that of existence:

In the way as concrete poetry speaks about language itself

Werner Mahler

Joel Smith (ed

but using new image files scanned from Ghirri’s original film to take advantage of modern technology and printing methods

Graham Harman writes that such pieces are ‘terminal points

War Primer 2 appropriates the first English-language version of Bertolt Brecht’s remarkable 1955 Kriegsfibel in which Brecht combined press photographs from the World Wars with four-line poems

(Wolfgang Zurborn)

penetrating gaze

Both an artist’s book and comprehensive inquisition of D’Angelo Lovell Williams’s work to date