Isa Genzken – a spread from Mach dich hübsch! 2015

Art in America has described Genzken’s work as ‘anarchic’, and the term well describes the materiality of her scrapbooks.  Riotous and raucous, they burst at the seams, and seem to speak of an urban magpie’s eye for two-dimensional finds.  Like other more recent scrapbooks, the means-of-sticking-the-production is pronounced, and even, in Genzken’s hands becomes first-order material – witness the black gaffer-tape X among other forms.