The catalog accompanies the first comprehensive European solo exhibition of New York-based
artist Adam Pendleton. In his paintings drawings and other works Pendleton uses letters
words drips splashes sprays and collected images as primary materials. His work is a kind
of continuous writing in which language movement memory and gesture are recorded transposed
and overwritten. He blurs the boundaries between seeing and reading between representation and
abstraction between painting drawing photography and film. In 2008 he began to articulate
his work Black Dada a visual project and an evolving investigation into the relationships
between blackness abstraction and the avant-garde. The catalog was created in close
collaboration with the artist and his chosen graphic designer and includes works by Adam
Pendleton in color for the first time. Poem: Simone White. Interview: Lauren O'Neill-Butler
with Adam Pendleton
