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PIERRE GUYOTAT AND CHRISTOPH VON WEYHE

On the opening weekend of Pierre Guyotat and Christoph von Weyhe’s exhibition SCENES AND STAGES, The Box presents a conversation with the artists, followed by the panel PIERRE GUYOTAT IN LOS ANGELES with Sylvère Lotringer, Paul McCarthy, Ariana Reines, and Noura Wedell.

PIERRE GUYOTAT AND CHRISTOPH VON WEYHE—SCENES AND STAGES

Through March 30.

PIERRE GUYOTAT AND CHRISTOPH VON WEYHE IN CONVERSATION

PIERRE GUYOTAT IN LOS ANGELES panel

Sunday, February 3, from 1 pm to 4 pm.

The Box

805 Traction Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.

From top: Pierre Guyotat, Untitled, pen and colored pencil on graph paper; Christoph von Weyhe, 7.3.2009, 2009, acrylic on canvas, photograph by Laurence Godart; Pierre Guyotat, Untitled, 2017, pen, colored pencil, gouache, pastel, graphite on paper. Images courtesy the artists and The Box.

PIERRE GUYOTAT’S IN THE DEEP

“He has a powerful hieratic appearance and you feel you are in the presence of a priest of Baal—or perhaps he is Baal. He’s stark raving mad but a very gifted writer who staked out the extreme limits of how far you can go….Guyotat is one of the very few geniuses of our day.” — Edmund White on Pierre Guyotat

Brigitte Nicole Grice of Artbook will lead a conversation at Hauser & Wirth’s Book & Printed Matter Lab exploring the connections between Pierre Guyotat’s IN THE DEEP—a “beat-sheet” account of three days and nights from Guyotat’s adolescence—and the art of Paul McCarthy, whose work is currently on view at the gallery.

PIERRE GUYOTAT’S IN THE DEEP—SUMMER READING GROUP, Sunday, August 27, from 11 am to 1 pm.

PAUL McCARTHY—WS SPINOFFS, WOOD STATUES, BROWN ROTHKOS, through September 17.

HAUSER & WIRTH LOS ANGELES, 903 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles.

ARTBOOK AT HAUSER & WIRTH LOS ANGELES, 917 East 3rd Street

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hauserwirthlosangeles.com/exhibitions/paul-mccarthy-20170701

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Pierre Guyotat, In the Deep, translated by Noura Wedell (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2014).

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See Wedell’s Bomb interview with Guyotat:

bombmagazine.org/article/2000051/pierre-guyotat

Pierre Guyotat.

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JOHN DOUGLAS MILLAR

John Douglas Millar’s BRUTALIST READINGS—“a significant intervention into recent debates on the place of literature and writing in the context of contemporary art”*—brings together ten new essays by the London-based writer.

Here is Millar on Pierre Guyotat, on “conceptual writing and its discontents,” on Paul [Beatriz] Preciado’s Testo Junkie and Lauren Oldfield Ford’s Savage Messiah, on the October generation and the novels of Chris Kraus, on the critical misreadings of Walter Benjamin’s Arcades as a “roadmap” to everything from Burroughs and Acker to surfing the web.

BRUTALIST READINGS concludes with a 2012 conversation between Millar and Simon Critchley, the author of The Ethics of DeconstructionVery Little…Almost Nothing, Memory Theatre, and Bowie.

John Douglas MillarBRUTALIST READINGS (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2016).

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See: conversations.e-flux.com/john-douglas-millar

Image credit: Sternberg Press.

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