Carol Bove

Each copy of this catalogue’s first edition is unique. The slipcases feature a one-of-a-kind, diamond-shaped paper element that the artist has personally selected and hand cut for this edition.

Accompanying the first museum survey of Carol Bove’s multidisciplinary work, this two-volume catalogue traces pivotal shifts across the artist’s 25-year career, ranging from her fugitive early drawings to her compositions of scrap metal and manipulated steel tubing known as “collage sculptures.” Bove’s inventive work spans many mediums and formal approaches but is unified by an exacting play of material, scale, color, and space. She places these elements in dialogue with cultural histories to create the conditions for a resonant perceptual encounter.

This publication is housed in a die-cut slipcase inspired by the artist’s distinctive use of geometry and color. For the first edition, these cases feature paper ephemera elements the artist has selected, hand cut into diamond shapes, and affixed to the covers, making each copy a unique object. Contained within are two books that offer complementary but autonomous perspectives on Bove’s ever evolving body of work. The first contextualizes her practice across seven generously illustrated scholarly essays, accompanied by an extensive selected exhibition history and bibliography. The second, an artist’s book conceived by Bove, features immersive photographic details of her works printed at the precise scale of the objects they represent, interleaved with a series of recent paper collages. Together, the two volumes present the first comprehensive survey of Bove’s career in the form of a book-object, realized in tandem with the most expansive presentation of the artist’s work to date.