This catalogue was published on the occasion of John Smith's ‘Waldeinsamkeit. Films from the 21st Century’, his second solo exhibition at Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Germany. Seventeen years after presenting ‘London and Other Worlds’, his first-ever solo museum exhibition, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg once again curated a selection of his film and video works in collaboration with the artist, this time focusing on those made over the past two decades. “(...) To look at the films and videos that John Smith has created over nearly fifty years is to find both methods at play: he renders the familiar strange and the strange, familiar. His medium and style may change over time, but this engagement with the politics of perception and the concreteness of the everyday is consistently there. He chronicles the present as it passes, piercing through the anaesthesia of shock with laughter, anger, and discernment.” – Erika Balsom, ‘The Chronicles of John Smith’John Smith‘Waldeinsamkeit. Films from the 21st Century’, 2022English, GermanEdited by Annegret Raabs, Uwe GellnerPublished by VfmK Verlag für moderne Kunst GmbHPrinted by Grafisches Centrum Cuno, CalbeDesigned by Fraser Muggeridge Studio, LondonPublication photographed by Nick AshSoftcover20×21 cm11¾×8¼ in120 pp.ISBN 9783903572942
