LAURA HOPTMAN is Director of the Drawing Center in New York. She previously worked as Curator of Contemporary Art in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Curator and Director of the 54th Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. From 2005 to 2010 she served as Senior Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.
ERIK VERHAGEN is a Professor in Contemporary Art History at the The Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France in Valenciennes. He has published numerous essays and articles on art from the 1960s to the present and is a regular contributor to specialist periodicals including Art Press Critique d'Art and Les Cahiers du Musée National d'Art Moderne. In 2010 he was curator of the Jan Dibbets exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
In 2017 he co-edited the book Franz Erhard Walther : Dialogues on the occasion of the artist's solo exhibition at the Reina Sofia in Madrid. He is a member of the board of the Vernano foundation for another photography in Amsterdam. NICHOIRS BAUME is Artistic and Executive Director of Public Art Fund in New York. He previously held curatorial positions at Kaldor Public Art Projects in Australia : the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney : the Wadsworth Atheneum in Connecticut, and was Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.
JASON SCHMIDT is a photographer and director who specializes in portraits of artists and cultural figures, as well as architecture and interiors. His work has been collected in two books Artists (2007) and Artists II (2015). Schmidt shoots regularly for magazines including Architectural Digest Harper's Bazaar, The New York Times T Magazine, Vogue, W and Wallpaper. UGO RONDINONE's interest in the written word is evident in many of his works, as perhaps best expressed in his early diary pieces (1992-98) and the philosophical, witty slogans of one of his most successful and holistic bodies of work, the ongoing rainbow series.
Included in this book are excerpts from two pieces of visual poetry, lines put of silence (2003 and 2020) and poems (2007).
