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109 Stackheads

by Ernst G. Benkert

Proteotypes is proud to announce the publication of 109 Stackheads, a new book by Ernst Benkert, the author of 623 Titles Without Paintings (2009).

109 Stackheads reproduces 109 drawings, the contents of a sketch-book filled by Benkert between May 27th and June 17th, 2000. The “Stackheads” of the title, so named by his friend Frank Owen, identify the outline that Benkert used to frame the highly worked, amazingly varied interiors. Individually they will seem pure abstractions, but taken collectively they might be read as representations of the interior weather of the human head.

Scanned and printed by Italian masters, 109 Stackheads faithfully reproduces all the gradations and nuances of Benkert’s original drawings.

In his Afterword to 109 Stackheads, Corin Hewitt says: Ernst Benkert’s Stackheads “create a new and expansive place between the directly referential and satirical images of his caricatures and his abstract work.”

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