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Ugo Rondinone (Paperback)
Laura Hoptman, Erik Verhagen, Nicholas Baume
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R998
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The definitive monograph on the work of one of the most prolific,
versatile, and exciting artists of the last three decades Over the
past 30 years, Swiss-born, New York-based artist Ugo Rondinone has
developed a distinct body of work: vibrant paintings, immersive
installations, sculptures, and text-based works, all united by a
poetic quality and an enduring preoccupation with such universal
themes as time and cosmic cycles. Profoundly interested in the
contemplation of everyday life, Rondinone reconciles the visual
language of psychedelia and advertising with meditative, intimate
reflections on personal and collective experiences. This book
brings fresh perspective to his remarkable life and career and is a
must-have for his huge global following.
Anish Kapoor is one of a highly inventive generation of sculptors
who emerged in London in the early 1980s. Since then he has created
a remarkable body of work that blends a modernist sense of pure
materiality with a fascination for the manipulation of form and the
perception of space. This book--the first major American
publication on Kapoor's work--surveys his work since 1979, with a
focus on sculptures and installations made since the early 1990s.
With more than ninety color images of these ambitious and complex
works, three original essays, an extended interview with Kapoor,
and selections from his sketchbooks, this book confirms Anish
Kapoor's place as one of the most remarkable sculptors working
today. Kapoor's work has evolved into an abstract and perceptually
complex elaboration of the sculptural object as at once monumental
and evanescent, physical and ethereal--as in his famous "Cloud
Gate" (2004) in Chicago's Millennium Park. The works in "Anish
Kapoor" include such striking works as "Past, Present, Future"
(2006), "1000 Names" (1979-1980) and "When I Am Pregnant" (1992).
This book, which accompanies an exhibition at Boston's Institute of
Contemporary Art, offers American readers a long-overdue
opportunity to consider the extraordinary clarity, subtlety, and
power of Kapoor's art. Includes an interview with the artist by
Nicholas Baume. Exhibition: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
May 30-September 7, 2008 "Copublished with the Institute of
Contemporary Art, Boston"
Sol LeWitt (1928-2007), renowned for his role in establishing
Conceptualism and Minimalism as dominant art movements in the
postwar era, is perhaps best known for his masterful and
brilliantly colored wall drawings. Throughout his career, however,
LeWitt also created many remarkable three-dimensional works
suitable for display in outdoor settings. In this handsome
publication, which accompanies the first major career survey of
LeWitt's "structures," the artist's modular works are traced from
their simplest manifestation in a single large-scale cube through
multiple variations, with examples from the 1960s through the
1990s. Works from the 1980s onward explore the three-dimensional
possibilities of diverse geometric forms, such as stars, and the
introduction of new materials, including concrete block and
fiberglass, stimulating experimentation with non-geometric,
irregular forms on an increasing scale. The book includes essays by
Nicholas Baume and Joe Madura that provide curatorial and critical
context for the structures. Additional essays by Rachel Haidu, Anna
Lovatt, and Kirsten Swenson offer fresh art-historical commentary,
ranging from the problematic of site for LeWitt's initial
structures to the relationship between abstract conceptual systems,
architecture, and urban space. Also included is a never before
published conversation among the artist, Baume, and Jonathan
Flatley. Stunning color plates record the works on display in Lower
Manhattan's City Hall Park, supplemented by archival and historical
documentation. Distributed for the Public Art Fund, New York City
Exhibition Schedule: City Hall Park, New York (05/24/11-12/02/11)
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Jeff Koons - Split-Rocker (Hardcover)
Larry Gagosian; Text written by Jerry Speyer, Nicholas Baume, Jerome de Noirmont, Laurent Le Bon
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R1,521
R1,183
Discovery Miles 11 830
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Split-Rocker is a spectacular planted form-over 37 feet high,
featuring over 50,000 flowering plants-that evokes a piece of
classical topiary work, yet its technical construction is the
result of a twentieth century invention.
A comprehensive presentation of Ai Weiwei's recent Public Art Fund
exhibition Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, a powerful reflection
on the global refugee crisis Internationally renowned Chinese
artist and activist Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) transformed over 300 sites
across New York City into a compelling, ambitious public art
exhibition concerned with the global refugee and migration crises.
Good Fences Make Good Neighbors (on view from October 2017 to
February 2018) consisted of immersive large-scale sculptures for
city monuments, fences on building facades and bus stops, and
portraits of refugees and immigrants displayed on outdoor banners.
This publication documents the extraordinary project from
conception to final installation, giving a behind-the-scenes look
at the research, preparatory drawings, planning, and fabrication
that brought it to life. The book includes an in-depth interview
with Ai Weiwei about the project's personal significance, an essay
by curator Nicholas Baume, and statements from a wide variety of
individuals-including Olafur Eliasson, David Miliband, Hans Ulrich
Obrist, and Jorge Ramos, among many others-about their interactions
with the artworks. As Baume asserts, "Ai Weiwei created a
remarkable model for what great public art strives to
be-emotionally engaging and politically resonant, conceptually and
formally inventive yet broadly accessible."
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