This catalogue accompanies Jimmy Robert's Vis-à-vis, the artist's first large-scale solo U.S. exhibition. One of Europe's most dynamic younger artists, Robert works in a range of media, including photography, sculptural objects, film, video and collaborative performances. What unites these different threads is a concern for the body and a guiding interest in the poetic potential of ephemeral materials such as paper and tape. Creating form through gesture, Robert draws inspiration from such artists as Yvonne Rainer and Yoko Ono. His exploration of folding bodies, crumpling paper and filmed repetitive gestures has come to define him as an artist of touching: the act of tearing tape from skin, a hand stroking hair, fingers rubbing a text.

‘Vis-à-vis’ includes multiple paper stocks and sizes, and is spiral-bound. 

Jimmy Robert
‘Vis-à-vis’, 2012
English
Edited by Naomi Beckwith
Published by Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Printed by Shapco, Minneapolis
Designed by James Goggin, Scott Reinhard and Alfredo Ruiz
Text by Naomi Beckwith
Publication photographed by Nick Ash
Softcover spiral bound
26×22 cm
10¼×8⅝ in
134 pp.
ISBN 9780933856950