Glenn Ligon: Come Out

by Glenn Ligon and Megan Ratner

American artist Glenn Ligon's latest monumental screen-printed paintings draw upon Minimalist composer Steve Reich's taped-speech work Come Out.

Ligon's series recontextualises the phrase 'Come out to show them' from the testimony of one of the badly beaten Harlem Six, which Reich isolated for his 1966 work. Whilst Reich repeats the refrain on two channels that gradually become out of sync, Ligon continually superimposes the words onto the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1905464991
• ISBN13: 9781905464999
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Ridinghouse
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 11.2" x 12.0"