Twenty XX (www.twxx.us) is pleased to announce the release of Content Desert, a book that collects the 2-D graphic work of artist Mark Price.
The collection’s title presages an almost unfathomably absurd question to pose in 2017, “What would a moment without content look like?”
Content Desert is a post-internet object, a journey through graphic refuse amassed and extruded over several stylized chapters. The book brings together a multitude of hijacked glyphs, damaged vectors, stolen sentiments, and product mockups reimagined and recontextualized at the moment of content’s obsolescence. The resulting volume of deeply compromised images occupies a liminal space in the world of intelligibility.
Through the transformation of once-was content into high contrast and stylized detritus, Content Desert is an envoy from yesterday to tomorrow, delivering its anti-message through deconstructed forms, abandoned logos, and nonfunctional iconography, operating as though it were reliant on a befuddled and obtuse navigation application.
The 450-plus pages of Content Desert anachronously proceed from it’s obnoxious tag line of “1,000,0000 years of broken graphics… load more, know less”.
Details:
Content Desert, Mark Price
460 pages, black and white, perfect bound, 5” x 8”, open edition published by Twenty XX, 2017
Post a Comment