WENZEL,ANNE. Ansen,Selen, Anne de Haij & Anne Wenzel. — Carte Blanche: Fuck the Dictator.

Rotterdam, nai10, [2023]. 136 pp. Col. ills. Softcover.Limited edition of 800 copies, each cover has been hand drawn by 75B [Graphic design]. - In February 2019, Deirdre Carasso, director of the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, invited artist Anne Wenzel to a boxing match at the museum; at stake was the autonomy of art versus the power of cultural institutions. Wenzel, who had never boxed before, accepted the challenge on the condition that the museum would give her carte blanche if she won the fight. Wenzel won and took over the museum space with the aim of placing art at the center.This book documents this carte blanche project. It is both a manifesto on the autonomy of art and a reflection on the positions of art and artists within the current institutionalized art world. It contains essays and visual documentation on the various aspects of the carte blanche episode, supplemented by the work that Wenzel produced and presented at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. [Publisher].