Zander Blom
The Garage-ism Manifesto, 2020
Published by the artist
Riso-printed and bound by Dream Press, Cape Town
Softcover, 32 pages

$ 12

Zander Blom’s self-published artist book, The Garage-ism Manifesto, accompanies his latest body of work as well as his 2021 solo exhibition at signs and symbols, Garage Party. As the artist writes, “Garage-ism is an approach to painting in which the aim is to make works that look like they could have emerged from a garage; works that appear to have lived and spent time behind boxes and stacks of old furniture. It’s not faux garage, it’s not about sticking cobwebs or dust onto canvas, and it’s not about nostalgia. Nor is it about paintings being made in a garage. It’s about working in a mental space where the desired destination for your efforts is neither the trash heap nor the museum. It’s about cultivating paintings that seem to have no desire to grace a pristine gallery wall, or even reside above a couch in a lounge. It’s about aiming to make work that is only really fit to live in that nether space: the garage.”

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