RENTYHORN (CROSSED OUT – AGAZZZIZHORN). 2010. SIGNED & DEDICATED BY SASHA HUBLER.

Kiasma: Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, 2010

24.5 x 17.5cm, 110pp plus embossed boards. Artist’s book and exhibition catalogue for Hubler’s renaming of the Agassizhorn in the Swiss Alps (named after the significant scientist Louis Agassiz who was also a horrendous racist and apologist for slavery) as Rentyhorn – one of the black slaves transported to America from the Congo and who Agassiz had photographed for a “scientific” study. Illustrated thorughout in colour and b/w and with essays by Hubler,  Hans Fassler, Johanna Sarjas, Suzana Milevska and others on history and the role of naming and monuments. Hubler has attempted to visit most of the places named after Agassiz and create artworks that reclaim the spaces for non-racist causes (one such place is on the Moon so not all can be visited that easily).  This book is signed and dedicated by Hubler to Paul Robertson who curated a show in Edinburgh in 2013 where the Agassiz Stone (an important geological landmark that was important in showing the important role of glacial formation in landscape) was “reclaimed” by Huber with a photograph in front of the massive boulder of the artist posing naked as a slave photograph might be in Agassiz’ time. VG+.