Known for its rigorous conceptualism and ambitious materiality, the work of Gordon Lebredt is among Canada's most challenging and gratifying. Alongside Lebredt's
significant record of exhibitions, publications, and interventions is a body of unrealized work—a sprawling hypothetical topology of surfaces, abutments, expanses, and disjunctions in which words,
objects, and images struggle to find and mark their place.
Nonworks 1975–2008 collects all of Lebredt's unrealized proposals from a thirty-three-year period—a major retrospective of a body of work that exists only as possibility. Designed
and typeset by Lebredt himself and edited by Lin Gibson, the book will contain approximately 100 works presented as drawings, schematics and sketches rendered in pencil, ink, spray paint,
and type, as well as texts by Gary Michael Dault, Ian Carr-Harris, Yvonne Lammerich, and Yam Lau.
–Josh Thorpe + David Court
Nonworks 1975–2008 will be co-published in the fall of 2010 by the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art and Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art / Plug In Editions, and distributed by Art Metropole. The book is being financed entirely through charitable donations and pre-orders.
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