Bob & Bob 40 Months, 40 Stories

Product Description Artbook@ Hauser Wirth Gallery is honored to present the legendary and genre blurring Los Angeles-based art duo BOB & BOB. Introduced by their former teacher and long-time friend LLYN FOULKES, Bob & Bob expand upon their decades-long partnership as an art team and discuss with writer/curator ANDREW BERARDINI what it has meant to work together as a pair in the art world and their recent reunion as Bob & Bob. 40 Months 40 Stories brings forth their latest collaborative project standing as their most politically charged and sentimental of works to date. The book, dissected into three poignant chapters, chronicles a period of 40 months and is reminisced with comments by Bob & Bob. BOB & BOB began their art career in 1974 while studying painting at the Art Center College in Los Angeles. For over 10 years they exhibited and performed in multiple mediums across America and abroad, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Portland Center for the Visual Arts, the Walker Art Center, and the fabled Kitchen in NYC. Their recordings have been released by PolyGram Records, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, High Performance Records and the San Francisco Art Institute. Bob & Bob s short films and videos have been featured in festivals and on cable TV internationally. In 1980 Astro Artz published Bob & Bob: The First Five Years by Linda Frye Burnham. And in 1986 Otis/Parson mounted a retrospective of their work with catalog essays by Kristine McKenna and Peter Frank. In recent years, Bob & Bob s pioneering legacy has been honored in the Pompidou Centre s Los Angeles: Birth of an Art Capital and also in the Getty Museums Pacific Standard Time initiative, which chronicled the history of California art. In 2013, after more than 20 years apart, Bob & Bob reunited to create 40 Months/40 Stories . As the artists themselves say, We had to reunite as Bob & Bob. If there isn t an art team around to save the world, who will? About the Author ANDREW BERARDINI is an American writer known for his work as a visual art critic and curator in Los Angeles. Described as the most elegant of all art critic cowboys. He has published articles and essays in publications such as frieze, Mousse, Fillip, Artforum, ArtReview, Art in America, Rolling Stone (Italy), Die Welt and the LA Weekly. A graduate with an MFA in Writing from the School of Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts, In addition to guest lecturing widely. He previously held the position of assistant editor of Semiotext(e) Press and is currently Los Angeles editor for Mousse, senior editor for Artslant, contributing editor for Momus and Art-Agenda, and co-founder of the Art Book Review. As a curator, he organized and co-organized exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Castello di Rivoli in Turin. He is the past recipient of a Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Grant and the 221A Curatorial Residency. LLYN FOULKES is an American artist living and working in Los Angeles. He began exhibiting with the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles in 1959. Other early solo exhibitions included the Pasadena Art Museum (1962) and the Oakland Art Museum (1964). Foulkes was awarded the Prize for Painting at the Paris Biennale, Musee d Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris followed by European exhibitions. In 1964 Charles Proof Demetrion selected Foulkes to represent the United States in the IX São Paulo Art Biennial, Museu de Arte Moderna São Paulo, Brazil. His first retrospective was organized by the Newport Harbor Art Museum in 1974. Music also became a major catalyst in Foulkes's work at this time and he formed his own band, The Rubber Band, in 1973, which stayed together until 1977. By 1979, Foulkes had returned to his childhood interest in one-man bands and began playing solo with The Mac