The Mike Kelley Gallery at Beyond Baroque presents Ansel Krut’s 26 Random Words Arranged Alphabetically with 26 Unrelated Images, which is based on his book of the same name. In the book, which is modeled on an old fashioned ABC primer, Krut takes 26 randomly chosen words and matches them to his own drawings without assigning any obvious correlation between the word and the image. Readers are left to explore the slipperiness of language and unlock the coded language buried in both the sound of words and in the way drawings are made. The exhibition shows the progress of the book from its initial conception through the various trial runs at the designers and printers till the final printing. The exhibition includes the first texts, wet proofs, front and back cover options, original drawings and other leftovers as the book made its way towards publication.



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