Always Starts with an Encounter Wols — Eileen Quinlan

Always Starts with an Encounter: Wols — Eileen Quinlan Edited by Helena Papadopoulos October 2019Radio Athènes and Sequence PressDesigned by O-R-G Inc., David ReinfurtTexts by Quinn Latimer, Laura Preston, Helena Papadopoulos, Oliver BerggruenSoftcover w/ dustjacket, 227 x 182 mm220 pages, 20 color, 81 b/w illustrationsISBN 978-1-7336281-3-6 Wols (1913–1951) was celebrated posthumously as one of the pioneering artists of the Art Informel movement. His distinctive early photographic work of the 1930s is however very little known. In an unusual travel across time and space his work is discussed in connection to that of contemporary American artist Eileen Quinlan (b. 1972). This book, a companion to the eponymous exhibition Always Starts with an Encounter, Wols-Eileen Quinlan, curated by Helena Papadopoulos and organized by Radio Athènes at the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens in 2016, further explores the relationship between the work of the two artists through an indexical structure, v