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Catherine Opie (Hardcover)
Hilton Als, Douglas Fogle, Helen Molesworth
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R2,442
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Long awaited, the first survey of the work of one of America's
foremost contemporary fine art photographers For almost 40 years,
Catherine Opie has been documenting with psychological acuity the
cultural and geographic identity of contemporary America. This
unique artist monograph presents a compelling visual narrative of
Opie's work since the early 1980s, pairing images across bodies of
work to form a full picture of her artistic vision. With more than
300 beautiful illustrations and made in close collaboration with
Opie, the book marks a turning point in the consideration of this
artist's work to date.
Luisa Lambri's art revolves around the human condition and its
relationship with space, touching on areas such as the politics of
representation, architecture, the history of abstract photography,
modernism, feminism, identity and memory. The title of the
exhibition presented at PAC, in Milan, is a tribute to Carla Lonzi
who, in 1969, published "Autoritratto", a collection of interviews
with avant-garde artists that revealed their private sides. In the
same way, Lambri constructs personal and intimate readings of the
subjects of her photographs and encourages a dialogue between the
observer, the work of art and the space. Light, time and movement
play an important role in her work, where slight differences
reflect the artist's movement within the space. Lambri uses
architecture to create her images, rather than images to document
architecture, revealing negligible details of modernist
architecture or iconic minimalist sculptures. At PAC, her works
relate to the unique qualities of the architecture designed by
Ignazio Gardella, for which the exhibition was specifically
developed. Text in English and Italian.
During Law's stay at St Ives in the late 1950s, the artist
developed a series of Field drawings that reduced elements observed
in the surrounding landscape - the sun, trees and clouds - into a
set of abstract signs held within a rhomboid frame. The series was,
in Law's words, 'about the position of myself on the face of the
earth and the environmental conditions around me'. Using a thickly
drawn line to contain and delimit the almost-blank pictorial field,
Law refined his early abstract language in subsequent monochrome
works, from 'open' and 'closed' drawings to the monumental
paintings of the Mister Paranoia series. Published to accompany a
2015 exhibition of the same name, this volume draws together over
20 works by leading British minimalist Bob Law (1934-2004),
providing a concise overview of the artist's career. This fully
illustrated catalogue includes an essay by Douglas Fogle that
includes new scholarship on the artist and focuses on his pursuit
of the void's poetic possibilities.
"Edmier's work celebrates popular culture's intrusion into our
dreams, the way media images insinuate themselves into our
unconscious, like uninvited guests."--"Contemporary Magazine"
This unique publication showcases the work of one of America's
foremost young sculptors. Each comes with a specially created
plastic rose in honor of his work capturing the cultural and
emotional significance of flowers. Also included is a loose leaflet
showing the installation "Bremen Town," which was part of the
comprehensive exhibition "Keith Edmier 1991-2007" at Bard college
in New York from October 2007 through February 2008. The
installation featured a full-scale reproduction of the interior
spaces from the home in which Edmier grew up in Tinley Park, a
suburb of Chicago.
Are we alone in the universe? Do aliens exist? Or are we,
ourselves, the strangers in our own worlds? Conceived around the
title "Life on Mars, " the 2008 Carnegie International, curated by
Douglas Fogle, explores the increasingly relevant yet perplexing
proposition of what it means to be human in the world today. The
question, "Is there life on Mars?" is a rhetorical one, posing a
metaphorical quest to explore humanity's response to a world where
global events challenge and seem to threaten our everyday
existence. Working in a range of media, from micro to macro levels
of experience, from tragedy to comedy, the 40 artists from 17
countries in the exhibition explore the alien inside each of us.
They include Doug Aitken, Kai Althoff, Vija Celmins, Bruce Conner,
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Daniel Guzman, Mike Kelley, Barry
McGee, Wilhelm Sasnal, David Shrigley, Rudolf Stingel, Paul Thek,
Wolfgang Tillmans and Andro Wekua, among others. In questioning the
absurdity of our lives while demonstrating hopeful aspirations for
the future of humankind, these artists foreground the poetic over
the monumental and the intimate over the heroic. In the end, the
exhibition asks if we ourselves are already on Mars.
This book celebrates two new performance pieces and a recent body
of paintings by the artist, drawing on desert landscapes, Road
Runner cartoons, and Hollywood Westerns. Bursting with full-color
plates and performance stills suffused in a rich desert palette,
this volume was published on the occasion of an exhibition of new
paintings by Dan Colen and the accompanying premiere of two
performance pieces created in collaboration with choreographer
Dimitri Chamblas. Colen's Desert Paintings (2015-19) are lush yet
schematic interpretations of stills from Chuck Jones's animated
shorts featuring Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. These
unpopulated depictions of the cartoons' arid settings recall
hard-edge abstraction, biomorphic landscapes by Georgia O'Keeffe,
and popular art forms such as stage sets, billboards, and the
Hollywood Western. The American cowboys who might inhabit these
scenes were brought to life in two performances Colen presented
with the Desert Paintings as a backdrop. In At Least They Died
Together and Carry On Cowboy, figures in full Western regalia
repeatedly performed a stylized, convulsive death on a mound of
dirt in the gallery. In an insightful essay, Douglas Fogle explores
the works' rich interplay of allusions, ultimately placing them in
the context of the modern human condition.
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Mark Manders (Hardcover, New)
Mark Manders; Text written by Peter Eleey, Douglas Fogle, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Yasmil Raymond
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R1,306
R970
Discovery Miles 9 700
Save R336 (26%)
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Since 1986, Dutch artist Mark Manders (born 1968) has been
developing an ongoing project titled "Self-Portrait as a Building."
Taking the form of sculptures, installations, drawings and
projections, these works map Manders' artistic persona through the
conceptual model of a built edifice, in the fashion of the
Renaissance memory theater. Inspired by writings on this subject
and by other literature, Manders' earliest works in this project
were primarily written, but over time, Manders found ways to deploy
everyday three-dimensional objects--epoxy figures, animals,
teabags, pencils, household furniture--to build a portrait of his
own mind as an architectural space. As the artist explains, "this
imaginary building, being composed of discrete objects, can shrink
or expand at any moment. In this building, all words created by
mankind are on hand." This publication accompanies the first North
American touring exhibition of Manders' work.
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