Metamorphology

Copenhagen-based artist Simon Starling (British, b. 1967) may be contemporary art’s leading “metamorphologist”: an acute observer of transformation as an active force in the world and of metamorphosis as the basis for singular sculptures, photographs, and films. Starling often traces global circuits of production and trade, or investigates art history as embodied by modernist icons such as Henry Moore and Constantin Brancusi. This volume, part of the series MCA Monographs, accompanies the first US museum exhibition to present a substantial cross-section of Starling’s work from the past decade. Copublished by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and ARTBOOK | D.A.P., it includes essays by Manilow Senior Curator Dieter Roelstraete on metamorphosis in Starling’s work, and by Mark Godfrey, Curator of International Art at Tate Modern, on the artist’s uses of photography. Starling’s Brancusi-inspired 2014 project for The Arts Club of Chicago debuts here as well, with contextual essays by the artist and Arts Club executive director Janine Mileaf.
Foreword by Madeleine Grynsztejn. Text by Dieter Roelstraete, Mark Godfrey, Janine Mileaf, Simon Starling. 140 pages.