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An Atlas of Es Devlin (Hardcover)
Es Devlin; Edited by Andrea Lipps; Text written by Donatien Grau, Andrea Lipps
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An Atlas of Es Devlin, the first monograph on artist Es Devlin’s
genre-defying practice, is an experiential publication encompassing
art, activism, theatre, poetry, music, dance, opera and sculpture.
Devlin’s protean work is rooted in a life-long practice of
reading and drawing. From sketches in the margins of texts, be they
poetry, drama, song lyrics, opera libretti, climate reports or
endangered species lists, emerge the technically advanced,
collectively imagined universes for which she is globally renowned.
Fragile miniature paintings, paper cuts and small mechanical
cardboard models form the seeds of some of the most iconic,
large-scale, multi-disciplinary cultural manifestations in recent
times, from public sculptures and installations at Tate Modern,
Serpentine, V&A, Barbican, Imperial War Museum and the Lincoln
Center, to kinetic stage designs at the Royal Opera House, the
Royal Ballet, the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala and the National
Theatre, as well as Olympic Ceremonies, Super-Bowl half-time shows,
and monumental illuminated stage sculptures for Beyonce, The
Weeknd, U2, Rosalìa, Dr Dre and Kendrick Lamar. Devlin’s work is
at once deeply personal and inherently collective. Over the past
decade her art practice has engaged with biodiversity, linguistic
diversity and collective AI-generated poetry. She views the
audience as a temporary society and encourages profound cognitive
shifts by inviting public participation in communal choral works.
An Atlas of Es Devlin is a unique, sculptural volume of over 900
pages, including foldouts, cut-outs, and a range of paper types,
mirror and translucencies, with over 700 colour images documenting
over 120 projects spanning over 30 years, and a 50,000 word text
featuring the artist’s personal commentaries on each art work as
well as interviews with her collaborators including Hans Ulrich
Obrist, Bono, Benedict Cumberbatch, Pharrell Williams, Carlo
Rovelli, Brian Eno, Sam Mendes, Alice Rawsthorn and Abel ‘The
Weeknd’ Tesfaye. Each book is boxed and includes a die-cut print
from an edition of 5000. ‘Es is like superstring theory, at least
eleven dimensions.’ Hans Ulrich Obrist ‘Es knows how to bend
the mind around corners of our experience.’ Benedict Cumberbatch
‘Es takes our inchoate aspirations and sculpts them into a
stage.’ Bono ‘I wish we’d had Es as a psychologist on some of
our projects.’ Brian Eno ‘Es’s mind is both forensic and
associative. She is able to x-ray a play and then she starts to
dream.’ Lyndsey Turner ‘Es is a turning point for anyone she
interacts with.’ Pharrell Williams ‘Es creates moments in which
we suddenly become aware of life and existing, and time.’ Carlo
Rovelli ‘With Es, there’s no “No”. She creates a whole
universe.’ Abel ‘The Weeknd’ Tesfaye
Using her own body as raw material for her artistic practice,
French artist ORLAN deconstructs the traditional iconography of the
feminine. In the 1990s, ORLAN caused a sensation with surgical
operations performed on her body, but it was as early as 1964, at
the age of 17, that she gave birth to her artistic self. Since
then, she has continuously recreated herself and keenly explored
the concept of identity. In her "carnal art," the body becomes both
subject and object. This publication traverses the six decades of
ORLAN's oeuvre, revisiting her early performances in particular.
One of her most recent creations is the ORLANOIDE robot, and thanks
to an augmented reality app, ORLAN avatars come to life and emerge
from this richly illustrated volume. The political status of the
body is made evident through all of her works: in 1989 she
transformed Gustave Courbet's famous painting L'origine du monde
into L'origine de la guerre by replacing the vulva with the
phallus. The statement has not lost any of its topicality.
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Mungo Thomson (Paperback)
Mungo Thomson; Edited by Clement Dirie; Text written by Donatien Grau, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Tim Griffin; Interview by …
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Over the last two decades, the encyclopedic museum has been
criticized and praised, constantly discussed, and often in the
news. Encyclopedic museums are a phenomenon of Europe and the
United States, and their locations and mostly Eurocentric
collections have in more recent years drawn attention to what many
see as bias. Debates on provenance in general, cultural origins,
and restitutions of African heritage have exerted pressure on
encyclopedic museums, and indeed on all matter of museums. Is there
still a place for an institution dedicated to gathering,
preserving, and showcasing all the world's cultures? Donatien
Grau's conversations with international arts officials, museum
leaders, artists, architects, and journalists go beyond the history
of the encyclopedic format and the last decades' issues that have
burdened existing institutions. Are encyclopedic museums still
relevant? What can they contribute when the Internet now seems to
offer the greater encyclopedia? How important is it for us to have
in-person access to objects from all over the world that can
directly articulate something to us about humanity? The fresh ideas
and nuances of new voices on the core principles important to
museums in Dakar, Abu Dhabi, and Mumbai complement some of the
world's arts leaders from European and American
institutions-resulting in some revealing and unexpected answers.
Every interviewee offers differing views, making for exciting,
stimulating reading.
After the Crisis offers a platform for discussions between some of
today's leading artists, writers, theorists, curators, and
historians aimed at questioning the very status of photography
today. Contributors come from the realms of critical theory,
fiction, performance art, fashion photography, and museums, as well
as film and design, and their conversations bring together history
and the contemporary. Comparing the current situation of
photographic images with the crisis experienced by representation
at the time of the birth of photography, they set our relationship
with photographic images in the digital era in perspective. Through
these discussions, we come to sense the existential burden of being
surrounded by images, while also beginning to grasp the historical
depth of a questioning of images that started long before the
current generation and engages with crucial political and cultural
issues of our time.
Ways of Re-Thinking Literature creates a unique platform where
leading literary thinkers and practitioners provide a multiplicity
of views into what literature is today. The texts gathered in this
extraordinary collection range from philosophy to poetry, to
theater, to cognitive sciences, to art criticism, to fiction, and
their authors rank amongst the most significant figures in their
fields, in France, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
Topics covered include an assessment of the role of literary
narratives in contemporary writing, new considerations on the
novel, a redefinition of the "poetic" factor in poetry and life,
and a discussion of how literature engages with contemporary forms
of individuality. Under the auspices of literary luminaries Helene
Cixous and the late John Ashbery, these new pieces of writing bring
to light contributions by innovative and well-established authors
from the English-speaking sphere, as well as never-before
translated prominent new voices in French theory. Featuring
original work from some of today's most influential authors, Ways
of Re-Thinking Literature is an indispensable tool for anybody
interested in the future and possibilities of literature as an
endeavor for life, thought, and creativity. With special cover
artwork by Rita Ackermann, the volume includes contributions from
Emily Apter, Philippe Artieres, John Ashbery, Paul Audi, Dodie
Bellamy, Tom Bishop, Helene Cixous, Laurent Dubreuil, Tristan
Garcia, Stathis Gourgouris, Donatien Grau, Boris Groys, Shelley
Jackson, Wayne Koestenbaum, Camille Laurens, Vanessa Place, Mael
Renouard, Peter Schjeldahl, Adam Thirlwell, and Camille de Toledo.
Ways of Re-Thinking Literature creates a unique platform where
leading literary thinkers and practitioners provide a multiplicity
of views into what literature is today. The texts gathered in this
extraordinary collection range from philosophy to poetry, to
theater, to cognitive sciences, to art criticism, to fiction, and
their authors rank amongst the most significant figures in their
fields, in France, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
Topics covered include an assessment of the role of literary
narratives in contemporary writing, new considerations on the
novel, a redefinition of the "poetic" factor in poetry and life,
and a discussion of how literature engages with contemporary forms
of individuality. Under the auspices of literary luminaries Helene
Cixous and the late John Ashbery, these new pieces of writing bring
to light contributions by innovative and well-established authors
from the English-speaking sphere, as well as never-before
translated prominent new voices in French theory. Featuring
original work from some of today's most influential authors, Ways
of Re-Thinking Literature is an indispensable tool for anybody
interested in the future and possibilities of literature as an
endeavor for life, thought, and creativity. With special cover
artwork by Rita Ackermann, the volume includes contributions from
Emily Apter, Philippe Artieres, John Ashbery, Paul Audi, Dodie
Bellamy, Tom Bishop, Helene Cixous, Laurent Dubreuil, Tristan
Garcia, Stathis Gourgouris, Donatien Grau, Boris Groys, Shelley
Jackson, Wayne Koestenbaum, Camille Laurens, Vanessa Place, Mael
Renouard, Peter Schjeldahl, Adam Thirlwell, and Camille de Toledo.
Tom Bishop has, for over sixty years, helped shape the literary,
philosophical, cultural, artistic, and political conversation
between Paris and New York. As professor and director of the Center
for French Civilization and Culture at New York University, he made
the Washington Square institution one of the great bridges between
French innovation and a New York scene in full transformation.
Bishop was close to Beckett, championed Robbe-Grillet in the United
States, befriended Marguerite Duras and Helene Cixous, and
organized historic public encounters-such as the one between James
Baldwin and Toni Morrison. He was also a scholar, a recognized
specialist in the avant-garde, notably the Nouveau Roman and the
Nouveau Theatre. In 2012, Bishop invited Donatien Grau to give a
talk at NYU. This invitation led to conversations-many of which are
presented in this book-and a friendship. Literature Is a Voyage of
Discovery gathers their dialogues, retracing Bishop's career, his
own history, his departure from Vienna, his studies, his meetings,
his choices, his conception of literature and life, his
relationship to the political and economic world, and the way he
helped define the profession of "curator" as it is practiced today,
offering a thought-provoking look into one of the leading minds of
our time.
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Jeff Koons: Shine (Hardcover)
Jeff Koons; Edited by Arturo Galansino, Joachim Pissarro; Text written by Donatien Grau
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R914
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The most recent installation by the internationally acclaimed
artist Alicja Kwade (b. 1979), who comes from Katowice, explores
the French physicist Leon Foucault's (1819-1868) proof that the
world rotates and develops the experiment further. The present
volume illustrates the playful exploration of space and time using
recent pictures from the Schirn rotunda. The Berlin-based artist
Alicja Kwade's scientificlooking experimental setups are
reminiscent of surreal and phantasmagorical constellations and
objects. The fascination of her work, which cannot be explained by
reason alone, is rooted in the skilful superimposition and
sometimes paradoxical nature of scientific and social realities.
Things that are generally taken to be established facts are called
into question and disproved. Here the artist explores the true
movement of time, which will have an immediate effect on both space
and the viewer.
Dealing with the power of artistic gesture, each work, presented
here in stunning colour, features a blue glass gazing ball that
sits on a painted aluminum shelf attached to the front of the
painting that reflects both the painting and the viewer. Through
the simple act of placing a gazing ball in front of the images,
painting and sculpture are reunited for maximum sensory perception.
In the mid-1970s, Sylvere Lotringer created Semiotext(e), a
philosophical group that became a magazine and then a publishing
house. Since its creation, Semio-text(e) has been a place of
stimulating dialogue between artists and philosophers, and for the
past fifty years, much of American artistic and intellectual life
has depended on it. The model of the journal and the publishing
house revolves around the notion of the collective, and Lotringer
has rarely shared his personal journey: his existence as a hidden
child during World War II; the liberating and then traumatic
experience of the collective in the kibbutz; his Parisian activism
in the 1960s; his time of wandering, that took him, by way of
Istanbul, to the United States; and then, of course, his American
years, the way he mingled his nightlife with the formal
experimentation he invented with Semiotext(e) and with his classes.
Since the early 2010s, Donatien Grau has developed the habit of
visiting Lotringer during his trips to Los Angeles; some of their
dialogs were published or held in public. This book is an entry
into Lotringer's life, his friendships, his choices, and his
admiration for some of the leading thinkers of our times. The
conversations between Lotringer and Grau show bursts of life,
traces of a journey, through texts and existence itself, with an
unusual intensity.
The man behind Purple magazine is the chronicler of his generation,
exposing the lifestyles of the creative elite through his intimate,
autobiographical photographs. Purple magazine has gained cult
status during the span of its twenty-year history, and its editor
Olivier Zahm has become a celebrity in the international fashion
world. Notorious for his obsessive photographic documentation of
his life and surroundings, which he shares daily with a huge fan
base on his blog purple DIARY, Zahm said to the New York Times in
2010, Even in the bedroom I have my camera, I sleep with my camera,
I have lunch with my camera, I go to dinner with my camera and I'm
recording my experience. Presented in the form of a free-flowing
personal scrapbook, the book follows Zahm through a fantasyland
populated by the artists, socialites, models, and celebrities who
regularly appear in his magazine, such as Terry Richardson, Karl
Lagerfeld, Andre Saraiva, Dash Snow, Lindsay Lohan, Chloe Sevigny,
Daphne Guinness, Carine Roitfeld, Nate Lowman, Leigh Lezark, and
Kate Moss. His idealistic belief in creative and sexual freedom is
made evident in the many nude portraits of female friends and
lovers. This voluminous book is an important historical document of
our times, exposing the lifestyle and inspirations behind Purple
magazine, which has had a profound influence on the approach to
contemporary fashion photography.
The work of Fabrice Samyn is as diverse as it is complex, often
referencing masterpieces of art history. In his paintings,
sculptures and drawings, the artist manages to translate and
magnify details from the paintings of the old masters. With his
fascination for the spoken word and everyday poetry, he also
follows the path taken before him by his Belgian compatriot Rene
Magritte.
No thinker in the West has had a wider and more sustained influence than the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. From philosophy to drama, religion to politics, it is difficult to find a current cultural or social phenomenon that is not in some aspect indebted to the famous philosopher and the Platonic tradition. It should come as no surprise that contemporary artists continue to engage with and respond to the ideas of Plato. Accompanying an exhibition at the Getty Villa, this book brings together eleven renowned artists working in a variety of media all of whom have acknowledged the role of Plato in their artistic process. Featuring candid interviews with the artists, this volume begins with an essay by the critic and curator Donatien Grau that contextualizes Plato in antiquity and in the present day. Contemporary art, Grau demonstrates, is Platonism stripped bare, and it allows us to reconsider Plato's philosophy as a deeply human construct, one that remains highly relevant today.
Between a Temple of Art and a Big Event As places to enjoy art, as
well as institutions that have become historic, museums can also be
examined through the question of who exactly heads up these temples
of art. What kinds of personalities have guided the fates of these
large, traditional institutions? How have they done so, and what
has motivated them? What galvanizes international curators or
museum employees, and how have they risen to the challenge of
opening their organizations to increasingly large numbers of
visitors? Donatien Grau has conducted impressive conversations with
influential museum operators. We have him to thank for these
personal, art historical, cultural-political, and timely insights
into museum operations, the histories of various institutions, and
their leaders' very personal attitudes toward art. This volume
reads like a detective story about the mediation efforts of museums
and the personal motives behind them. Interviews with MICHEL
LACLOTTE, Director of the Louvre, Paris, 1987-1995; SIR ALAN
BOWNESS, Director of the Tate, London, 1980-1988; SIR TIMOTHY
CLIFFORD, Director of the National Galleries of Scotland,
Edinburgh, 1984-2006; PHILIPPE DE MONTEBELLO, Director of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1977-2009; IRINA ANTONOVA,
Director of the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, 1961-2013; PETER-KLAUS
SCHUSTER, General Director of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin,
1998-2008; SIR MARK JONES, Director of the Victoria & Albert
Museum, London 2001-2011; TOM KRENS, Director of the Guggenheim
Museum, New York, Venice, and Bilbao, 1988-2008; WILFRIED SEIPEL,
General Director of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna,
1998-2008; HENRI LOYRETTE, Director of the Musee d'Orsay, Paris
(1994-2001), and the Louvre, Paris (2001-2013). DONATIEN GRAU is a
newspaper art critic, a museum curator, and a university teacher.
His lively and clever voice has a firm place in the field of art.
The book presents a series of new works produced by Adel Abdessemed
for the MAC's/Museum of Contemporary Arts in Grand-Hornu. The
Algerian-born French artist Adel Abdessemed (b. 1971) works in a
wide variety of media including animation, installation,
performance, sculpture, and video; through his art he addresses
contemporary themes and he reflects the bleak picture of the
present day. His works, unsettling in their simultaneous beauty and
raw reality, have made Abdessemed one of the most visible
international artists of our time. This volume is composed of two
distinct parts, each showcasing and examining one of two series of
brand new, site-specific works created by Abdessemed for the Museum
of Contemporary Arts in Grand-Hornu and the Musee d'Art
Contemporain in Lyon. Distributed for Mercatorfonds Exhibition
Schedule: MAC's, Grand Hornu (03/04/18-06/03/18) Musee d'Art
Contemporain, Lyon (03/09/18-07/08/18)
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