MERLIN CARPENTER


MONOGRAPHS

2010 Merlin Carpenter: Social Aesthetics, The Institute of Social Hypocrisy, Paris, France.
2004 Nueva Generación, Distrito 4, Madrid, Spain.

 

BOOKS

2011 The Opening, Sternberg Press, Berlin.
2009 High Price, Sternberg Press, Berlin, pp. 214 & 221.
2008 The Problem Perspective, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA., pp. 93 & 103.
Der große Preis, Dumont, Berlin, pp. 220 & 226.
2006 non-format, Pyramyd, Paris, p. 116.
2005 Art Now Vol 2, Taschen, Köln, p. 92.
Außerirdische Zwitterwesen, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, Köln, p. 80 & 122.
2003 Berlin, 1994-2003, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, p. 29 & 40.
2002 Art Now, Taschen, Köln, p. 84.
Vitamin P, Phaidon, London, p. 58.
2001 Art Crazy Nation, 21 Publishing, London, p. 212.

 

CATALOGUES

2011 Merlin Carpenter (Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club, Miami).
2008 Zodiac 3000 (International Project Space, Birmingham).
2007 Relax It's Only a Bad Cosima von Bonin Show (Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Vienna).
2002 Militant (Christian Nagel Gallery, Köln).
2001 Jewels-in-Art (with Jeremy Glogan, Josephine Pryde and Sarah Staton) (Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Graz).
2000 As a Painter I Call Myself the Estate of (Secession, Vienna).
1995 Voluntary Effort (Tom Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles).
1993 Meet You by the Strange Twisted Old Oak Tree on the Secluded Knoll at Dawn in Your Swimming Trunks and I'll Tell You Something Secret (Merlin Carpenter and Nils Norman, in association with Galerie Z, Göttingen).

 

ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

2011 M. Prince, ‘Merlin Carpenter: MD72 – Berlin’, FlashArt (May-June): 160.
C. Taft, ‘Merlin Carpenter: Overduin & Kite’, Artforum (May): 296.
S. Mizota, ‘Art review: Merlin Carpenter at Overduin and Kite’, Los Angeles Times Online (25 February): D18.
2010 S. Snowden, ‘And Now, Gentlemen, The Shirts Off Your Back, If You Please’, Idiom Online (9 December).
A. Kleinman, “All That Glitters: Merlin Carpenter at Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club”, ArtAgenda Online (2 December).
J. Lieberman and C. Sharp, ‘Waxing Durr’, Art Lies, no. 66 (Summer): 20.
2009 C. Chevalier, ‘Event/not Event’, May Revue, no. 2 (October): 47.
M. Collings, ‘An Artist of our Time’, Modern Painters (Summer): 18-20.
M. Coomer, ‘Merlin Carpenter: The Opening’, Art Review (Summer): 124.
L. Lambrecht, ‘The Opening’, KNACK (14 July): 55.
M. Sperlinger, ‘Holy Terror, On Merlin Carpenter at Simon Lee Gallery, London’, Text Zur Kunst (June, English Version): 119-120.
S. Ashton, ‘Canvases and Careers Today: Criticism and Its Markets’, MAP, no. 17 (Spring): 93.
L. Buck, ‘Biting the hand that feeds you’, The Art Newspaper (May): 47.
E. Terazona, ‘Kunst ist Kapital’, Financial Times (9 April): 18.
S. Reyburn, ‘Banks Attacked at Art Show as London Galleries Fight to Survive’, Bloomberg Online (7 April).
J. Lack, ‘Merlin Carpenter’, The Guardian Guide (28 March): 39.
2008 M. Fusco, ‘Canvases and Careers Today: Criticism and Its Markets’, Frieze Online, no. 119 (November-December).
R. Smith, ‘At Frieze fair, creativity and caution’, International Herald Tribune (21 October): 20.
S. Aston, ‘Atrocity Exhibition’, MAP, no. 15 (Autum): 54.
C. Knight, ‘After the party, the depletion’, Los Angeles Times Online (22 February).
M. Seidel, ‘Élegance’, Kunstforum, no. 189 (January/February): 340.
2007 C. Busta, ‘Merlin Carpenter - Reena Spaulings Fine Art’, Artforum (December): 355.
J. Kelsey, ‘Top Ten’, Artforum (December): 322.
A. Armetta, ‘Merlin Carpenter, The Opening,’ Time Out New York (18 October): 99.
M. Schwendener, ‘Merlin Carpenter - The Opening’, The New York Times (5 October): E41.
A. Rottmann, ‘Relax It's Only Merlin’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 66 (June): 67.
H. Hafner, ‘Merlin Carpenter - Relax It's Only a Bad Cosima von Bonin Show’, Spike, no. 11 (Spring): 95.
Anonymous, ‘Showcase - Arts & Culture’, Creative Review 27, no. 3 (March): 36.
2006 G. Moreno, ‘Merlin Carpenter – Geneva’, Art Papers (November/December): 55.
S. Lewitt, ‘Club You Can't Get Into’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 63 (September): 242.
I. Graw, ‘Von Hier Aus’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 63 (September): 64.
C. Rattemeyer, ‘Make Your Own Life: Artists In & Out of Cologne’, Artforum (Summer): 344.
R. Smith, ‘Cologne as Mythic Hot Spot (Cue the Background Music)’, The New York Times Online (2 June).
K. Stone Sonnenborn, ‘Merlin Carpenter - Reena Spaulings Fine Art’, Frieze, no. 97 (March): 164.
2005 I. Graw, ‘Merlin Carpenter - Galerie Christian Nagel’, Artforum (November): 265.
J. Pryde, ‘Da Bin Ich Machtlos’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 58 (June): 175.
2004 V. Zarza, ‘Merlin Carpenter’, ABC Blanco Y Negra Cultural, no. 662: 32.
2003 G. James, ‘Please Kill Me’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 51 (September): 155.
J. Kelsey, ‘Merlin Carpenter - American Fine Arts, Co.’, Artforum (October): 171.
A. Mar, ‘Gallery - Going’, The New York Sun (7 August): 16.
K. Johnson, ‘Merlin Carpenter - Children of the Projects’, The New York Times (13 June): E37.
2002 Anonymous, ‘Focus Painting Part II’, Flash Art, no. 227 (November): 81.
M. Prince, ‘Painting & Photography’, Art Monthly (October): 2.
M. Krebber, ‘An der langen Leine’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 46: 116 .
Anonymous, ‚Merlin Carpenters Kunstzitate‘, Kölner Stadtanzeiger (19 February): p. 26.
2001  M. Harris, ‘Merlin Carpenter - Magnani’, Art in America (July): 111.
M. Wilson, ‘Merlin Carpenter/Sigmar Polke’, Art Monthly (February): 34.
M. Archer, ‘Merlin Carpenter ¬ Magnani’, Artforum (February): 163.
2000  M. Bunz, ‚Wo ist Kunst?‘, De-Bug (October): 32.
A. Wagner, ‘Das Picabia-Verfahren’, Frame (July/August): 62.
J. Pryde, ‘Merlin Carpenter at Secession’, Modern Painters (Summer): 52.
M. Prinzhorn, ‘Dislozierte Ikonen’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 38 (June): 142.
M. Dusini, ‘Malen Nach Zahlen’, Falter, no. 17: 61.
1999 S. Leeb, ‘Notorische Zweifel’, Texte Zur Kunst, no.35 (September): 316. 
1998 J. Koether, ‘Chant No 1’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 30 (June): 168.
A. Kempkes, ‘Prinzipiell Sekundär’, SPEX (March): 54.
1996 I. Graw, ‘Vermintes Gelände’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 23 (August).
1994 G. Goodrow, ‘Ironically Playful’, Artnews (September): 111.
R. Smith, ‘For the New Galleries of the 90s, Small (and Cheap) is Beautiful’, The New York Times (22 April).
J. Decter, ‘Merlin Carpenter - Petzel/Borgmann’, Artforum (Summer).
1993 G. Schwering and C. Marx, ‘Merlin Carpenter - Max Hetzler’, ZYMA (March/April).
T. Holert, ‘Merlin Carpenter - Max Hetzler’, Flash Art (March).
W. Köhler, ‘Merlin Carpenter - Bruno Brunnett Fine Arts’, ARTIS (June).
U. Clewing, ‘Frech Kommt Weiter’, ZITTY (March). 

 

TEXTS BY THE ARTIST

2011 Introduction to ‘Complete Poetry by Nicolás Guagnini’, 100% Publications, New York.
2010 Excerpts in ‘The Sound of Downloading Makes Me Want to Upload’, Frenetic Happiness, Paris.
‘Fashion is Fun, with Stefano Pilati’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 78 (June): 52 & 116
2009 ‘(PROJECT BY NANG GALLERY)’, Pigiarniq, no. 17 (May): 61.
2008 ‘The Tail That Wags The Dog’, undelivered lecture, in ‘Canvases and Careers Today: Criticism and Its Markets’, Sternberg Press, Berlin, p. 75.
‘The Tail That Wags The Dog’, undelivered lecture, published on the Artist’s website.
‘The Face: Stripped’, Mute, no. 2: 106.
2007 ‘David Hockney, 1971’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 67 (September): 183 & 270.
2004 ‘Back Seat Driver’, Pacemaker (June).
2002 ‘Back Seat Driver’, Gitarren, die nicht Gudrun heißen, Galerie Max Hetzler/Holzwarth Publications, Berlin.
‘Media Guy’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 45 (March): 155.
2000 ‘The Sound of Bamboo’, catalogue essay for ‘Apothekerman’ by Michael Krebber, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Stätische Galerie Wolfsburg, Walther König.
‘The Protest Had Already Impacted on London in the Form of its Absence’, with Anthony Davies, catalogue essay for ‘As a Painter I Call Myself the Estate of’, Secession, Vienna
1999 ‘Concentration’, A.N.Y.P., no. 9: 7.
1998 ‘Der Nichtzerbrochene Nichtspiegel’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 31 (September): 66.
1997 ‘The Charlatans’, SPEX (September): 12.
‘Ein Haufen Sprache (Robert Smithson)’, SPEX (February): 53. 
1992 ‘Robert Smithson’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 5: 205.
1990 ‘I Was an Assistant’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 1 (Autumn): 119.

 

VIDEOGRAPHY

2009 ‘Carpenter’s Road’, 2009. Screened at The Institute of Social Hypocrisy, Paris (2010). * Mini DV Format.
2004 Cancer’. Screened at the McAllister Institute, New York, March. * Quicktime Movie Format.
1998 ‘Love is a Contact Sport’ (Part of Doppelganger).
1997 ‘The Making of 1945’. Screened at the McAllister Institute, New York, March (2002).
1994 ‘Why Henry Bond Left the Art Fair So Quickly’. For Omron screening, London (1995).
1992 ‘Untitled’. Blow-Up remake for ‘Meadow/Wiese’.
1991 ‘Untitled’. Documentation on ‘To the extreme’ for Luhring Augustine (not shown).
  (All VHS PAL Format, except *)