Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
1st edition, 2024
15 x 10,5 cm, 128 pages
Published on the occasion of the late artist Curtis Cuffie’s exhibition at Grazer Kunstverein, this pocket book presents dozens of photographs of artworks taken by Katy Abel, Tom Warren, and Cuffie himself. A local art-legend of NYC’s East Village until his death in 2002, Cuffie lived homeless for extended periods of his life and created “mysterious, improbable artworks on the streets of New York. To do so, he would fish the city’s leftovers and dress it in riotous assemblages made of discarded objects, fabrics, and ordinary things that speak of what we are.” These ephemeral artworks were always taken down by police and the remaining traces are found in this collection of light-filled images, full to the brim of a NYC that doesn’t exist anymore.
Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
1st edition, 2024
15 x 10,5 cm, 128 pages
Published on the occasion of the late artist Curtis Cuffie’s exhibition at Grazer Kunstverein, this pocket book presents dozens of photographs of artworks taken by Katy Abel, Tom Warren, and Cuffie himself. A local art-legend of NYC’s East Village until his death in 2002, Cuffie lived homeless for extended periods of his life and created “mysterious, improbable artworks on the streets of New York. To do so, he would fish the city’s leftovers and dress it in riotous assemblages made of discarded objects, fabrics, and ordinary things that speak of what we are.” These ephemeral artworks were always taken down by police and the remaining traces are found in this collection of light-filled images, full to the brim of a NYC that doesn’t exist anymore.