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This book documents an extensive series of paintings produced from 2013–2015. In over forty canvases, Korty presents objects arrayed on tiered ledges or within boxed compartments, conveyed in dilute monochrome ink against fields of midnight-blue pigment.Each painting involves a rhythmic interplay of line, shape and colour. In common with his wider practice, Korty distances the objects from their sources (which are often his own drawings), abstracting the imagery into Cubist-style montages of segmented, overlapping and interlocking shapes.Blue Shelves marks an ambitious new phase in Korty’s work, throughout which his sensitivity to colour and contour has combined with an increasingly formalist interest in surface, outline and the interplay of two-dimensional and three-dimensional space.

This publication was produced by Sadie Coles HQ in collaboration with 47 Canal, New York, as a limited edition of 1000. Through numerous colour images and exhibition views, this book traces Abeles’s artistic output between 2010-2016 and includes an in-depth conversation between art critic Isabelle Graw and Michele Abeles, in which they discuss her methodological approach and photographic practice.

Lawrence Lek (b. 1982, Frankfurt) uses computer generated imagery and advancing technologies such as VR to develop digital environments described by the artist as ‘three dimensional collages of found objects and situations’. He creates site-specific virtual worlds using gaming software, 3D animation, installation and performance. By rendering real places within fictional scenarios, his digital environments reflect the impact of the virtual on our perception of reality.