Kendell Geers Book Cover

Kendell Geers Irrespektiv cover, slipcase

He’s blown up museum walls, framed his semen, and pissed in Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain”. Since the early 90s, South African artist Kendell Geers has made a name for himself as an aesthetic terrorist, working in a variety of media. The first major retrospective of his work, Irrespektiv, opened at Gent, Belgium’s S.M.A.K. in 2007, and will travel through 2009 to museums in the U.K., France, and Italy. The companion book, also called Irrespektiv, was launched to coincide with the exhibition’s first show, and includes essays by Lieven de Cauter and Rudi Laermans, Christine Macel, Warren Siebrits and Andrea Vinassa, and an interview between Jerome Sans and Kendell Geers. As Kendell is a friend of ours, we designed the book on a personal level, working directly with him throughout the process. The 300-page book is designed with a blood-red slipcase to evoke the violence of Geers’s work. Irrespektiv was released and is distributed through Base’s publishing arm. The Irrespektiv show opens June 27 at DA2 in Salamanca, Spain.

Geers’s latest show, Post Punk Pagan Pop opened at de Pury & Luxembourg in Zürich on June 2, and is up until August 16.

Buy Irrespektiv.