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Based on her posthumous 2022 exhibition Never Enough at the DESTE Foundation in Athens, this publication celebrates American artist Kaari Upson (1970–2021), who worked across mediums—including sculpture, video, drawing and painting—to probe the depths of our collective psyche. Over her brief yet prolific 15-year career, Upson developed an elaborate universe woven out of memory, conjecture, fact and fiction. Imbued with a mystical animism, each work merges personal and collective traumas, desires, fears and fantasies. The colorful design of the exhibition, which featured 31 artworks spanning Upson's career, is faithfully reproduced in the book, which includes an essay by Dakis Joannou about his friendship with the artist and how he acquired the works in the collection, as well as a history of the making of these works by the late artist's close friend and collaborator Michael Benevento.
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Hardcover, 10.25 x 13.25 in. / 224 pgs / 242 color / 14 bw.
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Pub Date 9/30/2025
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Catalog: FALL 2025 p. 105
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When Kaari Upson (1970–2021) died of cancer at the age of 51, she left behind an extensive body of unfinished work and a breadth of materials related to her practice, including dozens of notebooks. This facsimile re-creates the one she used to sketch and reflect in the months leading up to her exhibition Go Back the Way You Came at Kunsthalle Basel in 2019—the last to show new work before her death. Alongside a faithful reproduction of each page, the notebook also includes a booklet in which Elena Filipovic illuminates the practice of "doubling" in Upson's work and explains why Upson's notebooks are crucial to understanding her practice: "Upson was a tenacious notetaker; her drawings and notebooks, in which little was held back, act as capacious ledgers that trace the motley cosmos of what she thought, made, or longed yet to make."
This book was published in conjunction with Kunsthalle Basel .
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Hardcover, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 160 pgs / 160 color / 16 pg insert.
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Pub Date 7/22/2025
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ISBN 9781941753859 TRADE
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Contained within them are all the hopes, dreams, fears and desires of their owners. Like a shaman, Upson creates her own gateways, using unorthodox techniques to imbue everyday objects such as mattresses and bags with an arcane magic. The result is auratic works that act as powerful symbols of absence, failed aspirations and loneliness.
Part of the 2000 Words series conceived by Massimiliano Gioni and published by DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, this monograph contains an essay by Ali Subotnick that examines Upson’s pseudoscientific approach to her art that allows her to create confounding work that is simultaneously familiar and foreign.
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Paperback, 7.25 x 10 in. / 152 pgs.
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Pub Date 4/24/2018
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Catalog: FALL 2017 p. 144
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ISBN 9782839920896 TRADE
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For The Larry Project (2005–ongoing), she unearthed a well of projected histories, images and artifacts inspired by forgotten fragments from the abandoned personal archive of a man whom she had never met. Upson has continued this forensic approach in subsequent projects. This catalog accompanying her New Museum exhibition features an interview with the artist by Paul McCarthy, a new essay by curator Margot Norton and a text by artist Jim Shaw. It also debuts her newest series, centering around a family living in a Las Vegas tract house.
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Paperback, 7.25 x 9.5 in. / 152 pgs / 51 color / 11 bw.
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Pub Date 6/27/2017
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Catalog: FALL 2017 p. 144
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ISBN 9780915557134 TRADE
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BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6.75 x 9 in. / 224 pgs / 130 color / 65 bw.
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Pub Date 4/28/2015
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Catalog: SPRING 2015 p. 140
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ISBN 9783863356248 TRADE
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