Book excerpt: The Cemetery of Reason is the first large monographic museum exhibition devoted to the work of Ed Templeton. Conceived as a mid-career retrospective, the S.M.A.K. exhibition combines and juxtaposes works from the last fifteen years of Templeton?s artistic practice with various new works and series. The exhibition tells the story of a pro skateboarder, a photographer, a drawer, a painter, etc. A story which, although it focuses on his own life and those of the people around him, transcends the autobiographical and exposes social and societal phenomena unhesitatingly but without pointing a finger.