Absolute Mixture in Berlin

Divus Publishing and Galerie Volker Diehl are pleased to invite you to a conversation between Mark Gisbourne and Matthew Bown about Matthew's new book, The Absolute Mixture: Shit Art Positive, a comprehensive study of scatology in contemporary and modern art.

The discussion will be in English and will range freely over the connections between our shared shit cultur and the visual arts.

More information about The Absolute Mixture is available here

Matthew Bown is a London-, Moscow- and Berlin-based art-dealer, historian and critic. In 2015, he gave the keynote speech at the annual conference of the International Association of Art Historians (AICA) exploring the connections between the Christian relic cult and the modern art market. He has published extensively on Russian art, including books for Yale University Press and Phaidon Press. 

Mark Gisbourne is ...