• Elmgreen & Dragset The Nervous System. The cover has a blue spine and has an image of an Elmgreen & Dragset work on it.
  • The book is open to two pages and has a photo of an Elmgreen & Dragset work on the left page and an essay in black text on the right page.
  • Elmgreen & Dragset The Nervous System. The cover has a blue spine and has an image of an Elmgreen & Dragset work on it.
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Elmgreen and Dragset: The Nervous System

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To mark the duo Elmgreen & Dragset’s first major exhibition with Pace in New York, The Nervous System, Pace Publishing produced a catalogue featuring an essay by writer Martin Herbert and an interview with the artists conducted by art historian Richard Shiff.

Printed on matte paper, the book includes full-bleed installation views and details of Elmgreen & Dragset’s highly narrative exhibition focused on domestic dysfunction. These images of the artists’ figurative and abstract sculptures bring their immersive presentation—comprising emotionally, psychologically, and politically resonant scenes—to life once again.

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The book also assembles archival photographs of Elmgreen & Dragset’s past exhibitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009, and other venues, as well as images of their iconic public works around the world, including Prada Marfa (2005) and Bent Pool (2019).
Publication details

Contributors: Martin Herbert. Interview with Richard Shiff
Publisher: Pace Publishing
Publication date: 2021
Hardcover
136 pages: 55 color illustrations
13 ⅝ × 9 ¾ inches
ISBN: 9781948701488
Elmgreen & Dragset The Nervous System. The cover has a blue spine and has an image of an Elmgreen & Dragset work on it.
The book is open to two pages and has a photo of an Elmgreen & Dragset work on the left page and an essay in black text on the right page.
Elmgreen & Dragset The Nervous System. The cover has a blue spine and has an image of an Elmgreen & Dragset work on it.

Elmgreen & Dragset

Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset are based in Berlin and have worked together as an artist duo since 1995. Elmgreen & Dragset pursue questions of identity and belonging and investigate social, cultural, and political structures in their artistic practice.

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