{"id":472,"date":"2019-08-31T12:28:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T16:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/?p=472"},"modified":"2019-08-31T12:28:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T16:28:23","slug":"the-self-improvement-alphabet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/the-self-improvement-alphabet","title":{"rendered":"The Self Improvement Alphabet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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O is for Organized Noise<\/em> by Matthew Rose<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Self Improvement Alphabet<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

by Matthew Rose<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Matthew Rose is an artist living and working in Paris, France. Born in New York in 1959, he graduated from Brown University in 1981 with a degree in Linguistics and Semiotics. An enthusiastic advocate of self-improvement through the reading of ABC books, Rose believes that word and image were happily shot-gun married at the earlieste stages of human civilization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 1989, Rose has exhibited his collages, drawings, altered objects and conceptual headaches across North America, Europe, and Japan. His installations can be stripped-down meditations to street art to wall-to-wall hallucinations like his exhibitions, “Scared but Fresh”, “The Letters”, “Pressure Washing”, “Confessions”, and “Spelling with Scissors”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2009, Rose launched the global collective project, A Book About Death in New York City<\/em>, an ongoing, unbound book and exhibition on the subject of death. More than 30 exhibitions from New York to Sao Paulo to Australia to Japan have taken place thus far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The artist is currently working on several projects: Days Like These<\/em> and Weekend Plans<\/em> books and the exhibition, “A Final Theory & Other Theories” at The New Art Museum in Karuizawa, Japan. The Self Improvement Alphabet<\/em> is the artist’s second book with Redfoxpress. People<\/em>, published in 2015, is a volume of drawings of interesting and unusual folks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew Rose also plays the mandolin. Learn more about the artist on his Instagram page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ABOUT THE BOOK<\/strong>
The Self Improvement Alphabet<\/em>
by Matthew Rose
hardcover, 40 pages
7.3″x5.5″
illustrated, thread binding
limited edition: 75 numbered copies
32\u20ac, \u00a328, $38 US
Redfoxpress<\/a>, Achill, County Mayo, Ireland, May 2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchase the book directly from Redfoxpress: HERE<\/a>. Or email<\/a> for more information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Matthew Rose
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