title: Allan Wexler: Absurd Thinking-Between Art and Design
author: Ashley Simone
description: "How do the spaces we inhabit shape our daily rituals, and how does our behavior, in turn, help to inform the architecture of these spaces? These are the questions with which artist Allan Wexler has primarily grappled for the last few decades, endlessly creating projects that examine and restructure functional objects as well as routines that we may accept without question. Celebrating his individual vision is a new monograph recently put out by Lar Mllers Publishers, the first that takes us deep inside his constantly searching mind." <i><br /><br />-Hyperallergic</i>
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  “A joyous embrace of the absurd....In this rich, inventive and very funny
  novel Magarian mercilessly eviscerates the worlds of art, PR and media....His
  literary ambition is clear from the first sentence of _The Fabrications_ , and
  the core theme is fiction itself. “Without you I think I’d cease to exist,”
  Babel says to Bloch, while the demonic Rees insists, “There is no reality
  anymore; reality is what you choose to make up.” Magarian may agree, but this
  book beautifully distils the dangers of too willing a participation in
  illusion.” – _The Times Literary Supplement_
  
  
  _“The Fabrications_ is big, bold...entertaining, Faustian...it captures the
  absurdity of contemporary culture and society.” – _The New Statesman_
  
  
  “There is so much going on in this book that I feel like I need to read it a
  few more times. There are plenty of questions about art and the process of
  making art, the cost to the artist, and the questions of authenticity....
  Smart, witty, and