Nick Mauss, Geschenkpapiere

This artist’s book re-imagines the plates of a catalogue as sheets of wrapping paper, meant to be torn out by the reader and used to wrap gifts. The various patterns, conceived by Nick Mauss specifically for this book, are derived and often derailed from various sources in the fine and decorative arts. The wrapping paper materializes those isolated elements on which the mind snags. As Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen writes in the essay included in this book: “The act, the affect, and the physical accoutrements of presentation have always been an intrinsic trope of Nick’s body of work, which tantalizes, ironizes, and sometimes rages against the hypertrophied distinction between the presentation of gifts and the presentation of textual or visual information.”

Available via Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König