Francis Offman
Francis Offman, photo: Iris Ranzinger
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Francis Offman
Format: 17 x 24 cm
Details: Softcover, dust jacket, 96 pages, coffee scent
Series design concept: Sabo Day
Graphic design: Rosen Eveleigh
Texts: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev/Francis Offman (conversation), Bettina Spörr
Language: English, German
ca. 30 images
Secession 2025
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln
ISBN 978-3-7533-0798-5
EUR 24.-
Francis Offman’s exhibition Weaving Stories presents a selection of new assemblages, that the artist calls ‘abstract paintings’. His technically and formally elaborated works are infused with the artist’s life and the history of (neo-)colonialism. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication featuring an essay by curator Bettina Spörr and a conversation between Francis Offman and art historian and curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Different white papers with slightly varying textures reflect Offman’s interest in surface structures. Each painting in the book is complemented by a recipe-like list of the materials used. One of these is coffee, whose scent also emanates from the publication as its artistic intervention.
