A richly illustrated first monograph of artist Caragh Thuring, whose unique and layered paintings invite a boundless reimagining of her subjects. Very Fantastically Arranged is a richly illustrated first monograph of artist Caragh Thuring, whose unique and layered paintings invite a boundless reimagining of her subjects.
This dedicated volume is the first to comprehensively document the work of Caragh Thuring, the London-based painter and artist. With over 200 images of Thuring's work, as well as written contributions by Laura Smith and Helen Marten, and a conversation with Ralph Rugoff,
Very Fantastically Arranged offers an in-depth look into the themes, obsessions, and slippery subjects the artist investigates in her vibrant, multi-layered, paintings. The collision of natural and manufactured worlds runs throughout her practice, with recurring motifs of volcanoes, submarines, bricks, flora, tartan and human silhouettes. Thuring paints fluidly and intuitively, without preparatory drawings, and arranges imagery in opposition to familiar hierarchies. Her fractured yet deft compositions of people and places create intriguingly disjunctive images that interweave technology, humans, and nature. Thuring's distillation of these subjects, reveals what lies beneath, destabilising the viewer, and forcing them to reconsider their experience and what they have been conditioned to overlook.
This volume reveals, as Laura Smith writes, Thuring's endeavour "to assemble, repeat and reconstruct details from her environment, biography and history into a new and ever-evolving narrative that is as much ours as it is hers to complete."
《非常奇妙的排列》是藝術家Caragh Thuring的首部豐富插圖專著，她獨特而多層次的畫作邀請人們對其主題進行無限的重新想像。這本專門的書籍是首部全面記錄倫敦畫家Caragh Thuring作品的著作。書中包含超過200幅Thuring的作品圖片，以及Laura Smith和Helen Marten的文字貢獻，還有與Ralph Rugoff的對話。《非常奇妙的排列》深入探討了藝術家在其生動多層次的畫作中所研究的主題、癖好和難以捉摸的對象。自然與人造世界的碰撞貫穿她的創作，重複出現的主題包括火山、潛艇、磚塊、植物、格子布和人類輪廓。Thuring以流暢且直覺的方式作畫，無需準備草圖，並將影像安排在熟悉的階層對立之中。她對人物和場所的破碎而靈巧的構圖創造出引人入勝的斷裂影像，交織著科技、人類和自然。Thuring對這些主題的提煉揭示了其背後的本質，動搖了觀者的感知，迫使他們重新考慮自己的經驗以及被條件化所忽視的事物。正如Laura Smith所寫，這本書揭示了Thuring的努力「將她的環境、傳記和歷史中的細節組合、重複和重構成一個新的、持續演變的敘事，這個敘事既是我們的，也是她的，等待著我們共同完成。」
Caragh Thuring was born in Brussels in 1972 and received a BA Hons in Fine Art from Nottingham Trent University in 1995. She has had solo exhibitions in galleries across the globe, from Luisa Strina Gallery in São Paulo to Thomas Dane Gallery in Naples to Simon Preston Gallery in New York City. Her works are in the collections of Tate, England; Arts Council Collection, England; Government Art Collection, England; and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA, as well as private UK and international collections.
Laura Smith is an English-born curator and writer, and the Director of Collection and Exhibitions at The Hepworth Wakefield. Previously, she was a curator at Whitechapel Gallery and Tate St Ives, where she curated solo exhibitions of Eileen Agar, Rebecca Warren, Simone Fattal, Helen Cammock, and others, as well as the acclaimed
Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings and
Turner Prize 2016.
Helen Marten is an artist and writer based in London. She was awarded the Turner Prize in 2016.
Ralph Rugoff OBE has been the director of the Hayward Gallery in London since 2006. He was the artistic director of the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019 and curated the 2015 Lyon Biennale.
Caragh Thuring 於1972年出生於布魯塞爾，並於1995年獲得諾丁漢特倫特大學的美術榮譽學士學位。她在全球各地的畫廊舉辦過個展，從聖保羅的 Luisa Strina Gallery 到那不勒斯的 Thomas Dane Gallery，再到紐約市的 Simon Preston Gallery。她的作品被英國的 Tate、英國藝術委員會收藏、英國政府藝術收藏以及美國紐約布法羅的 Albright-Knox Art Gallery 等機構收藏，還有英國及國際的私人收藏。
Laura Smith 是一位出生於英國的策展人和作家，現任 The Hepworth Wakefield 的收藏與展覽主任。她曾擔任 Whitechapel Gallery 和 Tate St Ives 的策展人，策劃過 Eileen Agar、Rebecca Warren、Simone Fattal、Helen Cammock 等人的個展，以及備受讚譽的《Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings》和《Turner Prize 2016》。
Helen Marten 是一位駐倫敦的藝術家和作家。她於2016年獲得 Turner Prize。
Ralph Rugoff OBE 自2006年以來一直擔任倫敦 Hayward Gallery 的館長。他是2019年第58屆威尼斯雙年展的藝術總監，並策劃了2015年里昂雙年展。
