Alexander and Bonin

@JonathasdeAndrade’s artist book Manual para 2 em 1 presents a series of images in which two young Brazilian carpenters work to fuse two single beds together to create a double bed. Metaphorically, the instruction manual seems to suggest the steps to be followed to produce a stable, united couple. The implication of romantic union, however, is made both ambiguous and humorous through the impersonal aesthetic and pragmatic tone of a furniture building manual. Published b...y #AlexanderandBonin Publishing in 2015, Manual para 2 em 1 was printed in silkscreen on 15 pages of chipboard. Each book is signed and numbered by the artist, and enclosed in a custom slipcase. The edition was printed at #AxelleEditions in Brooklyn and hand-bound by Brett Groves in Oswego, NY. Illustrations: Silvan Kälin (@olhoavestruz); Graphic Design: @editoraaplicacao See more

#WillieCole’s Untitled (You iron with that professional touch!) 1989, metal iron, colored and xeroxed paper in wood and glass frame. #AlexanderandBonin

#JorgeMacchi’s False Ceiling (2016) oil on canvas, 59 x 78 3/4 in. On view in our offices at 47 Walker Street. #AlexanderandBonin

In André Breton 2016, #FernandoBryce reproduces an ARTnews advertisement for Breton’s second expanded edition of Le Surréalisme et la Peinture, a collection of essays published in French in 1945 by Les Éditions Françaises Brentano while Breton was in temporary exile in New York. By replicating an advertisement for #AndréBreton’s book, @fernando_bryce not only points to the use of French as the language of cultural elites but also underlines the visual influence of Surrealist painting on the nascent movement of Abstract Expressionism in America. With André Breton, Bryce re-signifies an important transitional art historical period while exploring the internationalization of modern art and New York’s establishment as the center of artistic activity at the end of World War II. #AlexanderandBonin

#MatthewBenedict’s Manifestations, on view at #AlexanderandBonin. A film offering an overview of the artist’s solo exhibition and detail shots of individual works is available via the link in our bio. pictured (L to R): @MatthewBenedictStudio’s Empyrean Soldiers at the Drive-in Movie 2010, gouache on wood; Bad Charles 2001, gouache and wax varnish on wood.

#RigobertoTorres’ Magic Kids 1992, acrylic on cloth, wood, and plaster. #AlexanderandBonin