JOSH SMITH AND CHRISTOPHER WOOL: CAN YOUR MONKEY DO THE DOG

Walther König / mfc-michle didier, 2007, First edition of 1,000 copies / 300 artists' proofs, 168 pp., 8 1/2" X 11", Softcover

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Can your monkey do the dog is a joint work by Josh Smith and Christopher Wool. Using digital imagery, they created a series of works in which one of them proposed an image from his corpus, while the other reworked it, adding or removing elements. A new “stratum” was in turn superimposed on the previous one, with no mutual constraint or censorship governing the artists’ interventions.