THE ARCHITECTURE OF EMPATHY is a comprehensive 256 page overview of John Isaacs' artistic output since the 90's to the present, edited by Philipp Bollmann and published by HATJE CANTZ this summer.
The book with an introduction by Martin Kemp Professor Emeritus of Art History at Oxford University, is richly illustrated with 152 images of artworks and complete with a collection of essays by eminent Museum Curators, Art Critics, and Philosophers.
We are delighted to present this book in the presence of the artist on the evening of the 22 of June, the book launch will be accompanied by an exhibition of selected works included in the publication curated by the editor of the book, Philipp Bollmann.
John Isaacs, born 1968 in Lancaster is an internationally renowned artist who's work was described as a 'the least expected thing to find in an art gallery' by fellow artist Damien Hirst in the Times Newspaper when exhibited at the Serpentine Gallery as part of the exhibition of Damien Hirst's private collection 'In the darkest hour there may be light' in 2007. Isaacs's artistic projects live between realism and poetic expressionism, engaging through the directly visceral power of an off trend aesthetic poetry which communicates an eclectic humanity, empathy and absence.
John Isaacs has exhibited extensively at a range of European and International galleries and Museums including The Lisson Gallery - London, The Tate Museum - London, Modern Art Museum, Tokyo, Mike Kelly's Uncanny at Tate Museum Liverpool, KW - Berlin, The Museum of Modern Art - Brussels, Massimo Minini - Brescia, The Hayward Gallery - London, Michael Haas Gallery - Berlin, The Deichtorhallen - Hamburg, and Palazzo Reale - Milano.
In 2015 he was co-initiator and curator of NGORONGORO, a 'cult' artists initiated and funded group exhibition held in Berlin in 2015 and again in 2018.
The artist has published many books most noteworthy of which are the monograph ́In Advance of the Institution' published in 2007 by Other Criteria London, collected drawings 'Vor Der Sintflut' published in 2006 by Museum 52, London, 'The hand that rocks the cradle' published in 2013 by Walter Koenig.
