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Spatial Affairs
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Giulia Bini, Livia Nolasco-Rozsas, Jan Elantkowski, Fruzsina Feigl, Borba la Ka lma n
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The catalogue Spatial Affairs aims to investigate the relation and
interdependence of physical and digital presence via Modern,
Conceptual and Contemporary works of art and manifestos.
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Accrochage
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Caroline Bourgeois
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Accrochage brings together about seventy works from the Pinault
Collection produced by thirty artists since the 1970s. The
works-never shown before in the Venetian venues of the
collection-are the outcome of minimal gestures and artistic
research focused on the theme of the void. Fabio Mauri, Pier Paolo
Calzolari, Sol LeWitt, Charles Ray, Roman Opalka, Bernd Lohaus,
Thomas Schutte, Goshka Macuga, and Niele Toroni are only some of
the artists taking part in a show that becomes a place of meeting,
rela- tions, questions, and comparison between different ways of
practicing art.
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of La Luz de Jesus, mastermind
Billy Shire hasorganized a monumental group show featuring around
300 artists, each of whom havecontributed one new piece and a
written anecdote about their experience with thegallery. In 25
years of groundbreaking exhibitions, this is La Luz's first
published survey, featuring three generations of the most important
artists working today. The book, acompanion to the show, chronicles
the rich legacy of La Luz de Jesus and the thrivingart movements it
helped launch.Involved in the La Luz de Jesus 25th Anniversary
project is a who's-who of art, includingRobert Williams, Joe
Coleman, Glenn Barr, Elizabeth McGrath, the Clayton Brothers, Gary
Panter, Mark Mothersbaugh, Lou Beach, Hudson Marquez, AaronSmith,
Owen Smith, Frank Kozik, Manuel Ocampo, Don Ed Hardy, Jeff Soto,
DaveCooper, Daniel Martin Diaz, Scott Musgrove, Bari Kumar, Tim
Biskup, Joe Sorren, ChrisMars, Jessica Joslin, The Pizz, Coop,
Shag, Gary Baseman, Bob Dob, and many morewho haven't confirmed at
this writing.
George and Maida Abrams amassed perhaps the finest private
collection of Dutch Old Master drawings in the world. This
catalogue presents a selection of these superb works, and explores
the role of drawing in the creative process in Rembrandt's studio
and wider circle. The artists featured include Ferdinand Bol,
Govert Flinck, Samuel van Hoogstraten, Jan Lievens, and Nicolas
Maes: the key figures in Rembrandt's circle, who at times were
deeply influenced by his remarkable style and on other occasions
explored different approaches. Their works range from figure
studies to landscapes, from narrative and biblical scenes to lively
genre scenes. At the heart of the catalogue are ten exceptional
drawings by Rembrandt, including two highly finished landscape
drawings and a variety of figure studies. The accompanying text is
written by two leading scholars of Dutch art, both of whom have
worked closely with the Abrams collection. Published in association
with the Bruce Museum Exhibition Schedule: Bruce Museum, Greenwich,
CT (09/24/11-01/08/12)
A compelling examination of French sculptor Auguste Rodin from the
perspective of his enthusiastic American audience This exhibition
catalogue explores the American reception of French artist Auguste
Rodin (1840-1917), from 1893, when his first work entered a US
museum, to the present. Its trajectory reaches from the collecting
frenzy of the early twentieth century-promoted by philanthropist
Katherine Seney Simpson and performer Loie Fuller-to important
museum acquisitions of the 1920s and 1930s. From there, it
traverses the 1950s, when Rodin's reputation flagged, through to
the artist's revival and recognition in the 1980s. Rodin's
promoters include a dynamic cast of characters, each of whom played
a crucial role in cementing his status. The book traces this story
through approximately 50 sculptures and 20 drawings that cover
Rodin's most iconic subjects and themes. They demonstrate his
dexterity across media-his virtuosity in plaster, terracotta,
bronze, and marble-as well as his expressive, colorful drawings,
some of them relatively unknown, sparking new appreciation for his
work and delight for readers. Distributed for the Clark Art
Institute Exhibition Schedule: Clark Art Institute, Williamstown,
MA (June 18-September 18, 2022) High Museum of Art, Atlanta
(October 21, 2022-January 15, 2023)
Restoring a "perfect painter" to the Cubist canon Juan Gris
(1887-1927) was central to the development of Cubism in the early
20th century. Though the writer and art collector Gertrude Stein
considered him a "perfect painter," Gris's pivotal role within the
movement has often been overshadowed. Cubism in Color: The Still
Lifes of Juan Gris reveals the virtuosic range of the artist's
short yet prolific career, illuminating his boundary-pushing
contributions to Cubism. As a thorough examination of Gris's still
lifes, Cubism in Color provides an important reassessment of this
underappreciated artist, reestablishing his position as a modernist
master. This fully illustrated volume traces the evolution of
Gris's aesthetic and approach to still life through a selection of
key works. It includes original essays by leading scholars in the
field, offering new insights on Gris's elusive artistic process,
the history of collecting his work in the United States and his
native Spain, and his artistic legacy within modern and
contemporary Latin American art. Distributed for the Dallas Museum
of Art and The Baltimore Museum of Art Exhibition Schedule: Dallas
Museum of Art (March 14-July 25, 2021) The Baltimore Museum of Art
(September 12, 2021-January 9, 2022)
With cover artwork specially created by Ruscha, this book documents
hundreds of projects and miscellaneous ephemera produced by the
artist alongside his main oeuvre-including installations, films,
painted book covers, contour gauge profiles, and more Introducing
readers to the stunning breadth of Edward Ruscha's (b. 1937)
creative output over the course of his entire life, this book
includes materials dating back to his childhood and extending to
his present-day output. The projects featured here fall outside
Ruscha's production of paintings, drawings, prints, and artists'
books. Many of these are unknown and most are reproduced here for
the first time. Composed of three sections-Projects and Ephemera;
Contour Gauge Profiles; and Painted Book Covers-the book offers
Ruscha enthusiasts and scholars a hitherto unknown aspect of
Ruscha's practice, while also showing how these projects coincide
with, and sometimes even prefigure, the artistic work for which he
is best known. The approximately 270 painted book covers, begun in
1990, utilize found books as support for small paintings and
drawings. The 57 contour gauge profiles are silhouette-like
profiles made using a mechanical device for reproducing contours.
The largest section, Projects and Ephemera, consists of
installations, sculpture and objects, films, book and poster
design, utilitarian works, and more. Distributed for Gagosian
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Arctic
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Michael Holm, Mathias Seeberg, Poul Erik Tojner; Text written by Minik Rosing, Geoff Dyer, …
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Looming large in the cultural imagination as a wild territory to be
conquered and the ultimate perimeter of human power, the seemingly
untouched landscape of the Arctic has been an inspiration to
artists from the Romantic age to the present. "Arctic," published
to accompany a major exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern
Art in Denmark, brings together a range of artists responding to
the terrifying sublime of the Arctic, from Caspar David Friedrich
to Sigmar Polke, Sophie Calle, Mark Dion and Joachim Koester. With
contributions from geologists, historians, archeaologists and
glaciologists, as well as a new essay by Geoff Dyer about the
photographs from the nineteenth-century expeditions that provided
some of the first glimpses of the region and its inhabitants, this
catalogue considers the place of the Arctic in the history and
culture of the West at a moment when the region is taking on a new
significance as a threatened, vanishing space.
Founded in 1996, the Ars Electronica Futurelab looks back on 25
years of programming. At the interface between art and science, it
is a hybrid of studio and laboratory.
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Vincent Geyskens
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Dominic Van Den Boogerd, Eduardo Lamas, Eva Wittocx
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An amply illustrated examination of Vincent Geyskens' work
exploring of the position of painting in contemporary society
Vincent Geyskens examines the position of painting in contemporary
society, engaging with abstraction, figuration and a variety of
media and styles as the artist probes their possibilities and
limits. Complemented by a number of older reference works, this
book zooms in on Geyskens' practical work over the past ten years
to bring together various series in free-ranging connection with
one another. It places the spotlight on the breadth of his
experience and gathers together the diverse series and types of
work produced over the course of his oeuvre. The links forged
between the various approaches he uses lends voice to Geyskens'
quest as a painter exploring the status of the image and visual
representation in the present day. His painting is a way of turning
thoughts into something tangible, translating them into substance
in this amply illustrated publication. Distributed for
Mercatorfonds Exhibition Schedule: EXPO M Museum Leuven (May
27-September 5, 2021)
The Bodleian Library is one of the few libraries outside Germany
with a substantial number of medieval manuscripts from the
German-speaking lands. These manuscripts, most of which were
acquired by Archbishop Laud in the 1630s, during the Thirty Years'
War, mainly consist of major groups of codices from ecclesiastical
houses in the Rhine-Main area, that is Wurzburg, Mainz, and
Eberbach. Their potential contribution to the religious and
intellectual history of these foundations and to the study of
German medieval culture as a whole is immeasurable. This book
contains descriptions of over one hundred medieval, manuscripts,
mostly Latin, from the Charterhouse St Michael at Mainz, founded in
the early 1320s. Dating from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries,
they reflect the spirituality and literary interest of the
Carthusian order. This is the first major publication on the Mainz
Charterhouse manuscript collection. Published in two volumes, it
provides authoritative and superbly detailed descriptions,
including information about the physical characteristics,
decoration, binding, and provenance of the manuscripts. Each
manuscript is illustrated.
In this study of American art, time and motion are fragmented,
mechanized, slowed down and sped up so that the last century flies
by. Works range from Joseph Stella's "Battle of Lights, Coney
Island" (1915-18) to Shirley Shor's real-time projection
"Landslide" (2004).
A richly illustrated companion to selected works from the
collections at M+. At the heart of Hong Kong's new museum of visual
culture are the M+ Collections - the result of a carefully
considered programme of collection-building that began with the
inception of M+ in 2011. The first of their kind in Asia, the
collections comprise four different holdings: the M+ Collection,
made up of 6,000-plus works and objects from the worlds of visual
art, moving image, and design and architecture, the museum's core
areas of interest; the M+ Sigg Collection, consisting of 1,510
works of contemporary Chinese art; the M+ Collection Archives,
composed of over 45,000 items; and the M+ Library Special
Collection, with 400-plus items. Together, the holdings serve to
embody the bold and ambitious mission with which M+ was founded: to
become a multidisciplinary museum of contemporary visual culture,
rooted in Hong Kong and Asia but with an international outlook. M+
Collections: Highlights presents the work of more than 300 artists,
designers, film-makers, photographers and architects specially
selected to represent the collections as a whole, from Zhang Peili
and Charlotte Perriand to Nam June Paik, Zaha Hadid, and Shigeru
Ban. Organized into seven chapters, each encompassing a different
decade of the collections' span - from the 1950s to the 2010s - the
book consists of individual entries on the featured makers composed
of one or more of their works and an insightful analysis by an M+
curator. Interspersed among these entries are 24 thematic essays
intended to illuminate some of the movements, tendencies and ideas
around which the collections have grown, including modernism in
Asian art and the future of painting in a digital world. Full of
unexpected connections and new perspectives, M+ Collections:
Highlights represents not only an invaluable introduction to M+'s
unrivalled storehouse of visual culture but also an indispensable
work of reference.
To celebrate its fiftieth birthday, this comprehensive new
catalogue records the breadth of art held in the international
Hiscox Collection, as seen through the eyes of two celebrated
contemporary artists. Edited by Whitney Hintz and Laura Smith.
Global insurer Hiscox have been collecting modern and contemporary
art for fifty years, and their significant collection comprises
1000 works by international artists at the forefront of
contemporary practice. Including work by Etel Adnan, Nan Goldin,
David Hockney, Joan Miro, Eduardo Paolozzi and Pablo Picasso, the
collection will be on public view for the first time in two
consecutive displays at Whitechapel Gallery: the first curated by
British painter Gary Hume (b.1962) and the second by Berlin-based
Venezualean artist Sol Calero (b.1982 ). The catalogue will include
contributions by both artistcurators, as well as colour
illustrations of every work in the collection.
How do you write a history of a group that has been written out of
history? In The Accidental Archives of the Royal Chicano Air Force,
world-famous archaeologist La Stef and the clandestine Con Sapos
Archaeological Collective track down the "facts" about the elusive
RCAF, the Rebel Chicano Art Front that, through an understandable
mix-up with the Royal Canadian Air Force, became the Royal Chicano
Air Force. La Stef and her fellow archaeologists document the
plight and locura que cura of the RCAF, a group renowned for its
fleet of adobe airplanes, ongoing subversive performance stance,
and key role as poster makers for the United Farm Workers Union
during the height of the Chicano civil rights movement. As the Con
Sapos team uncovers tensions between fact and fiction in historical
consciousness and public memory, they abandon didactic instruction
and strive instead to offer a historiography in which various
cultural paradigms already intersect seamlessly and on equal
ground. That they often fail to navigate the blurred lines between
"objective" Western archival sciences and Indigenous/Chicana/o
cosmologies reflects the very human predicament of documenting the
histories of complicated New Worlds everywhere. Uniquely blending
art history, oral history, cultural studies, and anthropology, The
Accidental Archives of the Royal Chicano Air Force suspends
historical realities and leaps through epochs and between
conversations with various historical figures, both dead and alive,
to offer readers an intimate experience of RCAF history.
In and Out of View models an expansion in how censorship is
discursively framed. Contributors from diverse backgrounds,
including artists, art historians, museum specialists, and
students, address controversial instances of art production and
reception from the mid-20th century to the present in the Americas,
Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Their essays,
interviews, and statements invite consideration of the shifting
contexts, values, and needs through which artwork moves in and out
of view. At issue are governmental restrictions and discursive
effects, including erasure and distortion resulting from
institutional policies, canonical processes, and interpretive
methods. Crucial considerations concerning death/violence,
authoritarianism, (neo)colonialism, global capitalism, immigration,
race, religion, sexuality, activism/social justice, disability,
campus speech, and cultural destruction are highlighted. The
anthology-a thought-provoking resource for students and scholars in
art history, museum and cultural studies, and creative
practices-represents a timely and significant contribution to the
literature on censorship.
When architecture is the subject of an exhibition, there is almost
always a dilemma: architecture can only be represented through
drawings, models, and photographs; the physicality of architecture
per se is missing. The abstraction of architecture for exhibition
and the absence of architectural experience in architectural
exhibition are in fact two sides of the same coin: The problem of
the lack of an architectural reality. In this book, Yong He Chang
traces the history of architectural intervention in exhibitions and
answers the above questions through more than forty exhibition
designs made by Chang and Atelier FCJZ. The book showcases his
original approach to construction and shares his thoughts on the
relationship between architecture and the timeless aspects of
'exhibition'. It also includes a discussion of a series of issues
Yong He Chang and his team have encountered in designing
exhibitions and installations, and the responses they came up with.
For 40 years, the Cold War dominated the world stage. East and West
Germany stood at the frontlines of the global confrontation,
symbolized by the infamous Berlin Wall, which separated lovers,
friends, families, coworkers, and compatriots. The Wende Museum in
Los Angeles, California, is named after the period of change
immediately following the wall's destruction. It was established in
2002 to study the visual and material culture of the former Eastern
Bloc, and, with physical and psychic distance, to foster multiple
perspectives on this multilayered history that continues to shape
our world. This encyclopedic volume features around 2,000 items
from its extraordinary collections. Based on our XL-sized volume,
this edition includes a full spectrum of art, archives, and
artifacts from socialist East Germany: official symbols and
dissident expressions, the spectacular and the routine, the
mass-produced and the handmade, the funny and the tragic.
Accompanying these remnants of a now-vanished world are texts from
scholars and specialists from across Europe, Canada, and the United
States, with themes ranging from the secret police to sexuality,
from monuments to mental-mapping. More than 800 pages, featuring
around 2,000 objects. A smaller, more accessible version of our
XL-sized volume, the most comprehensive overview of GDR visual and
material culture to date. Several dozen images of everyday life and
public events from the most famous GDR photographers. Special
two-language edition featuring texts both in English and German.
From November 18, 2017, visit the Wende Musem at its expanded
campus in Culver City's Armory Building, a site originally created
in preparation for World War III but re-designed by Michael Boyd,
Christian Kienapfel, and Benedikt Taschen to welcome its 100,000+
collection of artifacts.
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Eduardo Terrazas
- Cosmos
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Eduardo Terrazas; Contributions by Marcus du Sautoy, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Guillermo Fadanello
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Cosmos: Silence and Infinite offers new approaches on the stunning
art works of Eduardo Terrazas's (1936) art works. Four well known
authors present a multidisciplinary vision on the artists ongoing
series Possibilities of a Structure. Which suggests at once a
curiosity in the fabric of our universe and a profoundly human hope
for an underlying rationality behind the chaos of the world.
Eduardo Terrazas's has explored a lifetime's worth of questions
about the nature of the universe through the microcosm of his
images. He derives his visual reflections with a basic geometric
structure and a technique that is inspired by the Huichol "tablas"
from Mexican indigenous tribes. His highly colourful and playful
series Possibilities of a Structure - of which Cosmos is a
subseries - is ongoing since 1974 and holds over 650 works until
today: an artistic exploration of the boundaries of the infinite.
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