![]() ![]() The full range of Altmejd's nearly 20 years of work is featured in the book, from his earliest work-where the vast aesthetic vocabulary he has evolved over the years took shape-to his most recent series. In the most comprehensive consideration of the artist's work to date, the volume includes four essays by a range of writers, who by providing different entry points to Altmejd's art, animate and engage the rich and diverse ideas that characterize his important practice. Seamlessly moving between a variety of aesthetic modes-from an almost ascetic minimalism in works employing plaster and mirror to works teeming with accumulations of crystals, gold chain, thread, taxidermied birds and animals, among other objects-Altmejd's work offers beautifully wrought meditations on the cycles of life and death, interiority and exteriority, sexuality and spirituality. ![]() David Altmejd (born 1974) is known for his intricate and highly worked room-size installations and sculptures. ![]()
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