Kendell Geers, 1988-2012

Prestel presents a monographic survey of the life and work of South African-born, Brussels-based artist Kendell Geers. Covering a period of more than two decades, and encompassing the entire range of his work in all media, this book explores the artist's early conceptual and political works, produced during apartheid and South Africa's transition into a democracy, and his later European period of production, evocative of a poetic sensibility. Organized in a sequence of overlapping artistic moments, this comprehensive publication probes the influences, tendencies, and historical developments in Geers' oeuvre while shedding light on the constellation of philosophical and aesthetic procedures that make him one of the most provocative artists of his generation.