Victor Man

This publication, conceived by Victor Man as an artist's book, critically analyses his practice through installation images, illustrations of new works and reproduction of extracts from Zenobia by Gellu Naum, the renowned Romanian author and a founding member of the surrealist group in Man's home country, Romania. Associating all-assorted elements and varied artistic disciplines, this book, conceived by the artist, assembles texts photocopies, archive footages, reproductions of works and exhibitions views, allowing, in the course of pages and various juxtapositions, sudden narrative constructions, precious for the artist. Even if an iconoclastic atmosphere smooths on the work where desire and violence become entangled, the reading of its assemblies remains open and confers to the book a surprising variation of its whole current production.

Published on the occasion of Victor Man's exhibitions at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, from November 2008 to January 2009, and at CIAP, île de Vassivière, from February to June 2009.