JULIE MEHRETU / A UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF EVERYTHING AND NOTHING

Published on the occasion of the exhibit ion by Julie Mehteru, Universal History of Everything and Nothing at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto and at the Botín Center of Santander, this book reflects the formal, pictorial, critical and poetic overlays that are fundamental to the work of the artist . It includes re-commissioned essays by renowned authors Amin Maalouf and Marina Warner and a curatorial vision of Suzanne Cotter, d irector of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art. A new photograph that documents Mehretu's process in the studio, along with det ails and large-scale reproductions of paintings and drawings, are accompanied by images selected by the artist as part of a visual u niverse rich in layers and urgent