Mostly English; not too English

Ryan Gander

Originally created for the Zoo Portfolio 2005, published by Archeus, Gander's work Mostly English; not too English is an stand-alone excerpt from his, as then unfinished, conceptual novel. It is a screenprinted multiple on two found paperback end-papers. Gander's story works are discussed in Frieze Magazine Issue 86, October 2004 by Mark Beasley who recognises that Gander's written yarns 'employ gentle reappropriation' and place 'the story before the facts'.

'Ryan Gander is a storyteller, a teller of tales. For some time now I’ve been thumbing through the pages of a book compiled by Gander and designer Stuart Bailey, entitled The Appendix: A Translation of Practice (2003). The publication is a beguiling attempt to present a diffuse and eclectic practice, one that places the story before the facts. A wilfully disparate assemblage of concerns and interests, its contents range from the perceived failure of Utopian Modernism to the individual over the mass, from material versus effect to the disturbing appeal of brown corduroy. Ideas and manifest projects spin out of control, delivered on the page and in the margins of the societal everyday.'

Ryan Gander Mostly English; not too English original signed screenprint for sale
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Artist
Ryan Gander (b. 1976)
Title
Mostly English; not too English
Medium
Screenprint on two found paperback end-papers
Date
2005
Size
Each sheet: 19.6 x 12.6 cm variable (2) 7 6/8 x 4 15/16 in.
Edition
From the edition of 50, signed and numbered by the artist on the reverse of the right hand page
Printer
Rob Ryan at The Mangle, Crown Press
Publisher
Archeus, London
Reference
CC14-56
Status
Available for sale
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