Lionel Maunz Peter Sotos [Lionel Maunz + Peter Sotos]

[Flesh] [Sculpture] [Psychosis]

Lionel Maunz Peter Sotos

Lionel Maunz + Peter Sotos

Nine Banded Books, Amphetamine Sulphate. 2021 hardcover. Signed, like new.

From the publisher:

"“Possessed by a galvanic intensity rarely encountered in contemporary art, the work of Lionel Maunz is exhibited in discursive arrangement with Peter Sotos’ thematically expansive commentary in this ingeniously layered collation. Whether it is approached as an archival showcase of Maunz’s viscerally assaulting gallery portfolio, or as an exegetical key to the personal histories and refractory obsessions that inform and inscribe an overarching psycho-aesthetic confrontation with suffering, violence and desire, Lionel Maunz Peter Sotos is an immersive and uniquely disquieting fusion of text and imagery.”

Huge book, heavy stuff. If you're not familiar with Maunz, picture sculpture evocative of the walking crematory nightmares of Silent Hill, though more rooted in a banal exterminationist reality. Sotos peppers the text with his trademark bleak malevolence. 

Best priced copy out there by a country mile - I just want ya to own this and appreciate it.