Christopher Wool: Bad Rabbit

Wool's fifth artist's book with Holzwarth Publications explores sculpture through photography

This artist's book series by Christopher Wool (born 1955) started with two sets of photographs of roads and littered backyards around Marfa and Donald Judd's Chinati Foundation in Texas. For the third book, the artist superimposed two different realities; in the fourth the original photographic gaze acted as the basic layer for new image worlds. Now, in Bad Rabbit, Wool directs his attention back to fragments of the original reality, as he takes found pieces of wire and explores their sculptural qualities in starkly black-and-white photographs. In his sculptural practice, the artist enlarges these maquettes and casts them in bronze and steel; in the photo works collected here, the found object becomes a subject of observation, its sculptural form created in its framing and in the treatment of the images.