Paul Theroux

Nicola Trezzi

Ashley Bickerton

Bali-based artist Ashley Bickerton (born 1959) rose to prominence in the early 1980s as part of New York's East Village art scene with his vibrant abstract works critiquing consumer culture and the commodification of the art object. Alongside Jeff Koons, Meyer Vaisman and Peter Halley, Bickerton pioneered what was called the "Neo-Geo" movement with his unconventional paintings devoid of Expressionist brushstrokes. Featuring works that span the duration of Bickerton's career thus far, from the earlier consumerist works up to the recent tropically colored mixed-media paintings of exotic, erotic fantasies and nightmares, Ashley Bickerton: Ornamental Hysteriadraws from works in Damien Hirst's Murderme collection. This fully illustrated book offers a thorough survey of the artist's diverse body of work and includes essays by novelist Paul Theroux and art critic Nicola Trezzi, as well as a conversation between Bickerton and the filmmaker Roddy Bogawa.

Ornamental Hysteria

Heather Davis

Jaroslav And€Ýl

Blanca De la Torre

Joshua Craze

Paolo Cirio

Natasha Hoare

Mary Anne Redding

Nijah Cunningham

Sampada Aranke

Susan Schuppli

Susette Min

Susanne Leeb

Lauren Van Haaften-Schick

Giulia Bini

Aude Launay

Evidentiary Realism features artists engaged in investigative, forensic, and documentary art. It aims to articulate a particular form of realism in art that portrays and reveals evidence from complex social systems, with prioritizing formal aspects of visual language and mediums. These artists theoretically articulate the aesthetic, social, and documentary functions of their mediums in relation to the subject matter they investigate. The creation of evidentiary artworks is the realism of today's world, which is trying to control, predict, and quantify itself. Evidentiary realists examine such complexity to condemn, document, and inform through compelling artworks, giving form to a particular documentary and investigative art practice.

Evidentiary Realism

Nicola Trezzi

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