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KAWS - New Fiction
Daniel Birnbaum, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Bettina Korek, Alexandra Kleeman
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R1,074
R813
Discovery Miles 8 130
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Based on the blockbuster 2022 solo show in London, KAWS: New
Fiction documents the groundbreaking, multi-layered exhibition that
presented the artist’s new and recent works in physical and
augmented reality. A unique collaboration between the acclaimed
artist KAWS, the Serpentine Galleries, digital art platform Acute
Art, and the online video game phenomenon Fortnite, KAWS: New
Fiction bridges the gap between the physical and virtual worlds,
showcasing KAWS’s artworks as they’ve never been seen before.
This one-of-a-kind book chronicles the iconic KAWS figure as it
journeys through viewing the exhibition’s paintings, sculptures,
site-specific additional artworks revealed via augmented reality
(visible at the show through a dedicated AR app), and the virtual
recreation of the physical gallery simultaneously featured in
Fortnite. KAWS: New Fiction is a celebration of the unprecedented
exhibition, and KAWS’s creative influence, as it was experienced
in physical, virtual, and augmented realities.
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Annie Leibovitz (Hardcover)
Annie Leibovitz, Steve Martin, Graydon Carter, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Paul Roth
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R4,125
R3,727
Discovery Miles 37 270
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When Benedikt Taschen asked the most important portrait
photographer working today, Annie Leibovitz, to collect her
pictures in a SUMO-sized book, she was intrigued by the challenge.
The project took several years to develop and when it was finally
published in 2014, it weighed in at 26 kg (57 pounds). This
incredible collection is now available in an accessible XXL book
format. Leibovitz drew on more than 40 years of work, starting with
the photojournalism she did for Rolling Stone magazine in the 1970s
through the conceptual portraits she made for Vanity Fair and
Vogue. She selected iconic images-such as John Lennon and Yoko Ono
entwined in a last embrace-as well as portraits that had rarely, if
ever, been seen before. The Annie Leibovitz SUMO covered political
and cultural history, from Queen Elizabeth II and Richard Nixon to
Laurie Anderson and Lady Gaga. "What I had thought of initially as
a simple process of imagining what looked good big, what
photographs would work in a large format, became something else,"
Leibovitz says. "The book is very personal, but the narrative is
told through popular culture. It's not arranged chronologically and
it's not a retrospective. It's more like a roller coaster." Fans of
Leibovitz and her many celebrated subjects can now enjoy that same
roller coaster ride for themselves with this unlimited edition.
For the last 40 years Gilbert & George have united and divided
the international art scene with equal parts insolence and
elegance. Their oeuvre, with its repeating figures and reprising
themes of shit, piss, blood, tears, nudity, sperm, alcohol and
drugs, overturned the conventions of the twentieth century and
helped to set the agenda for the twenty-first. This 35-minute film
produced, hosted and edited by the influential international
curator Hans Ulrich Obrist is the first documentary to follow
Gilbert & George inside their creative process, and into their
archives and collection. Obrist discovers the couple's intimate
life within the interior of their London house, a veritable museum
of obsessions. Beyond good and bad, beyond appearances and objects
(negatives, books, press cuttings ), viewers are offered
unprecedented insight into the artists' methods and the forms of
thinking and categorizing that make up their philosophy on art and
life. Gilbert & George met and began their collaboration in
1967 in London; in 1986 they won the Turner Prize; in 2005 they
represented the U.K. at the Venice Biennale; from 2007 through
2009, a retrospective of their work will be touring major museums
worldwide.
The Chinese artist Liu Ye's meticulous, colorful canvases convey
his love of literature in the first publication dedicated to his
paintings of books. The Beijing-based artist Liu Ye is known for
his precise, deftly rendered representational paintings. Drawn
equally from contemporary culture and old master painting, Liu's
wide-ranging visual touchstones include Piet Mondrian, Miffy the
Bunny, and Prada advertisements. In this new publication devoted to
his book paintings, the artist examines the book as both a physical
object and cultural totem. Playing with geometry and perspective,
Liu creates extraordinary and disorienting portraits of this most
familiar subject. Liu's Book Painting series, begun in 2013,
depicts close-up views of books that are turned open to reveal
empty pages, an approach that emphasizes the object's form over its
content. Rendering books' material structure-endpapers, binding,
spine-in sensual detail, these paintings indicate an obsession with
the book as an object and a lifelong love of literature. Liu's
father was a children's book author who introduced him to Western
writers at a young age, fueling his curiosity and imagination. Many
of the books in Liu's father's collection were banned in Cultural
Revolution-era China and the artist read them secretly throughout
his childhood. This formative experience figures in his popular
Banned Books series and in his book paintings in general. Published
on the occasion of a solo exhibition presented at David Zwirner,
New York, in 2020, this catalogue includes new writing by the
acclaimed poet Zhu Zhu, who traces the evolution of the book form
in Liu's work, as well as an interview with the artist by Hans
Ulrich Obrist.
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Rose Wylie: Which One (Hardcover)
Rose Wylie; Foreword by Nicholas Serota; Text written by Judith Bernstein, David Salle, Barry Schwabsky; Interview by …
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R1,625
Discovery Miles 16 250
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"Wylie fearlessly tackles the thorniest topics head-on, committing
her thoughts and questions about politics, religion, fame, love,
history, money and nature to canvas." - Charlotte Brook, Harper's
Bazaar Inspired by film, pop culture, and the history of fashion as
she experienced personally, Wylie harnesses a union of high and low
culture with a bold technique of mark making. Her unique practice
of material overlay and erasure creates fantastic compositions.
Creating conceptual tensions between formal and informal
aesthetics, Wylie employs the visual elements of text as formal
details in her paintings. With a beautiful swiss binding, this
monograph compiles the work of four exhibitions at David Zwirner
offering a full breadth of Wylie's most recent work to date. Giving
insight and compassion to Wylie's feminist and rebellious impulses,
Judith Bernstein writes an accompanying text on how she relates to
Wylie's ambitious and playful energy. With a foreword by Nicholas
Serota, this publication also features new essays by Barry
Schwabsky and David Salle and an enlightening interview between the
artist and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
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Lucas Arruda (Hardcover)
Fernanda Brenner, Chris Sharp, Hans Ulrich Obrist
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R742
Discovery Miles 7 420
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In JENA Dusseldorf, first published in 2011, we follow Sabine
Moritz and her artistic development, which began in 1989 at
Offenbach University of Art and Design and continued in 1991 at the
fine arts academy Kunstakademie Du sseldorf. Following the
publication of Lobeda in 2010, a collection of homogenous early
drawings, the pictures featured in JENA Dusseldorf have greater
diversity in terms of content and form reflecting Moritz steady
progression as an artist. Moritz brings scenes to life with vibrant
colours and experimental brushstrokes creating a range of textures
and atmospheres in a variety of medium including oil, acrylic,
charcoal and colour pencil. The repertoire of architectural motifs
is expanded to include places of remembrance in the GDR, sculptures
in public spaces and the typology of 'empty places'. Some of the
motifs from Lobeda reappear and are altered, drawing attention to
the dynamic aspect of the process of recollection. The book also
features a conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist in which Moritz
talks about her personal life, her memories and makes reference to
specific works. The modest and compact book, packed with over 200
colour illustrations, shows by way of example her search for an
artistic position on her route from Jena to Dusseldorf.
Hans Ulrich Obrist, the Artistic Director of the Serpentine
Galleries in London, brings his curating expertise to the Instagram
feeds of more than 350,000 followers, in an endeavour to revive the
art of handwriting from within an ever-advancing digital age. The
result is one of the most comprehensive looks at the art world from
the inside; inclusive of artists, writers, designers, musicians,
actors, architects and public figures. In his open-ended Instagram
project, Obrist collects an abundance of thoughts for the day,
dreams, drawings, musings, jokes, quotations, questions, answers,
poems, and puns from some of the world’s greatest contemporary
artists, handwritten on everyday Post-it notes (and other scraps).
From the reassuringly philosophical to the inspiringly
straightforward, the ingeniously funny to the tenderly post-humous,
Remember to Dream! (a note from American artist Carrie Mae Weems)
paints a picture of the art world direct from many of the most
celebrated artists of the twenty-first century. The book features
an introduction by Hans Ulrich Obrist and is designed by
Amsterdam-based award-winning book designer Irma Boom.
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Cerith Wyn Evans (Paperback)
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Nancy Spector, Daniel Birnbaum
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R1,360
R1,057
Discovery Miles 10 570
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A definitive and timely monograph celebrating the work of
ground-breaking conceptual artist Cerith Wyn Evans Cerith Wyn Evans
is one of today's most respected and acclaimed sculptors. Born in
Wales and educated through his first language of Welsgh, his work
reflects his fascination with literature, film, music, and
philosophy. Evans is an artist interested in language and how this
can be perceived in spatial terms. Originally an experimental
filmmaker, in the 1990s Evans started creating sculptures and
installations defined by poetic conceptualism and elegant aesthetic
forms. Often made of neon light, his pieces subtly disrupt existing
systems of communication, either through the subversion and
alteration of given spatial forms or by adopting a communal rather
than a singular, authoritarian voice. In 2003 Evans represented
Wales at the country’s inaugural pavilion at the 50th Venice
Biennale. This book, the first comprehensive study dedicated to his
work, includes contributions by luminaries such as the former
Guggenheim Chief, Nancy Spector and the 2011 Venice Biennale
director, Daniel Birnbaum, together with a previously unpublished
text by Evans himself.
"Once there was a nation that went to war, but after they conquered
a continent their own country was destroyed by atom bombs... then
the victors imposed democracy on the vanquished. For a group of
apprentice architects, artists, and designers, led by a visionary,
the dire situation of their country was not an obstacle but an
inspiration to plan and think... although they were very different
characters, the architects worked closely together to realize their
dreams, staunchly supported by a super-creative bureaucracy and an
activist state... after 15 years of incubation, they surprised the
world with a new architecture-Metabolism-that proposed a radical
makeover of the entire land... Then newspapers, magazines, and TV
turned the architects into heroes: thinkers and doers, thoroughly
modern men... Through sheer hard work, discipline, and the
integration of all forms of creativity, their country, Japan,
became a shining example... when the oil crisis initiated the end
of the West, the architects of Japan spread out over the world to
define the contours of a post-Western aesthetic...." -Rem Koolhaas
/ Hans Ulrich Obrist Between 2005 and 2011, architect Rem Koolhaas
and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist interviewed the surviving members of
Metabolism-the first non-Western avant-garde, launched in Tokyo in
1960, in the midst of Japan's postwar miracle. Project Japan
features hundreds of never-before-seen images-master plans from
Manchuria to Tokyo, intimate snapshots of the Metabolists at work
and play, architectural models, magazine excerpts, and astonishing
sci-fi urban visions-telling the 20th-century history of Japan
through its architecture. From the tabula rasa of a colonized
Manchuria in the 1930s, a devastated Japan after the war, and the
establishment of Metabolism at the 1960 World Design Conference in
Tokyo to the rise of Kisho Kurokawa as the first celebrity
architect, the apotheosis of Metabolism at Expo '70 in Osaka, and
its expansion into the Middle East and Africa in the 1970s: The
result is a vivid documentary of the last moment when architecture
was a public rather than a private affair. Oral history by Rem
Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist Extensive interviews with Arata
Isozaki, Toshiko Kato, Kiyonori Kikutake, Noboru Kawazoe, Fumihiko
Maki, Kisho Kurokawa, Kenji Ekuan, Atsushi Shimokobe, and Takako
and Noritaka Tange Hundreds of never-before-seen images,
architectural models, and magazine excerpts Layout by award-winning
Dutch designer Irma Boom Further reading
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Erik Bulatov: Come to Garage! (Paperback)
Ruth Addison, Snejana Krasteva; Introduction by Kate Fowle; Contributions by Erik Bulatov, Hans Ulrich Obrist
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Since the beginning of his career in the 1960s, Russian artist Erik
Bulatov has investigated the potential of painting as social
commentary. A founder of the school of Moscow
Conceptualism-alongside Ilya Kabakov, Collective Actions, and Komar
& Melamid among others-Bulatov developed what has been
described as conceptual painting, using text and image to explore
spatial preoccupations that mirror his understanding of social
relations. This book follows the making of the artist's largest
work to date: a thirty-two-feet high monumental diptych made in his
trademark graphic style, reminiscent of the poet Vladimir
Mayakovsky's advertising posters from the 1920s. Introducing an
innovative assessment of Bulatov's oeuvre, this richly illustrated
publication includes an essay by Garage curator Snejana Krasteva
exploring his use of monumental scale, an interview with the artist
by Hans Ulrich Obrist, and several of Bulatov's texts spanning the
period 1978-2006, which are translated into English for the first
time.
The Richter Interviews collects together a series of conversations
between Hans Ulrich Obrist and Gerhard Richter over the course of
more than two decades of discussion and collaboration. Subjects
range from Richter's place within art history to artists' books,
architecture, religion, unrealised projects and his advice for
young artists. The collection also includes a previously
unpublished interview focused on Richter's much-lauded window for
Cologne Cathedral, unveiled in 2007. Obrist's vast knowledge and
interrogating mind coupled with his longstanding friendship with
Richter make him a unique interlocutor for an artist whose work
spans more than 60 years and ranges from painting to photography,
glass to printmaking, watercolours to books. Obrist deftly guides
the reader through a dazzling array of topics and offers an
invaluable historical perspective on Richter's place within the art
world of the 20th and 21st centuries. Illustrations of discussed
artworks by Richter feature throughout the texts for visual
reference - making this an indispensable guide to the thinking and
creative processes of one of the world's most admired artists.
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Ever Goya (Paperback)
Staffan Ahrenberg, Sam Keller, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Isabela Mora
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R1,758
Discovery Miles 17 580
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Tete a Tete (Hardcover)
Annette Messager; Hans Ulrich Obrist
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R823
Discovery Miles 8 230
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The first comprehensive collection of Annette Messager's drawings,
including 150 works made over the last ten years, which constitute
an invaluable lexicon to the mind and work of a trailblazing
iconoclast. Messager redefined the role of women making art and the
very nature of sculpture - accomplishments which won her the
coveted Golden Lion for best national pavilion at the 51st Venice
Biennale in 2005 and the Praemium Imperiale for sculpture in 2016.
Messager's subjects range from animal to human, feminist activists
to devotional figures, skeletons to ghosts. She broaches the grand
themes of love, life, death and the fairy tales, mythologies,
superstitions and vanities that lie beneath.
On September 29, 2018, before a live audience at Navy Pier in
Chicago, international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist conducted his
first US Marathon interview session as part of Art Design Chicago,
a yearlong celebration of Chicago's art and design legacy initiated
by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Obrist, who has
undertaken a life-long project of interviewing cultural figures,
spoke with more than twenty of Chicago's most innovative and
influential artists, designers, architects, writers, and other
creatives. In their interviews, this diverse group of creatives
provided insights into their artistic processes, influences, and
ideas about and hopes for their shared city of Chicago. Among the
participants were social-practice artist/developer Theaster Gates,
architect Jeanne Gang, writer Eve Ewing, Hairy Who artists Art
Green and Suellen Rocca, performance/installation artist Shani
Crowe, and the city's cultural historian Tim Samuelson. Creative
Chicago: An Interview Marathon serves as documentation for this
event, including edited transcripts of the interviews, biographies
of the participants, photos of the event, and images of the
artists' work.
A new edition of conversations between the artist Ai Wei Wei and
curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, coming up to the present day Ai Weiwei
- artist, architect, curator, publisher, poet and urbanist -
extended the notion of art and is one of the world's most
significant creative and cultural figures. In this series of
interviews, conducted over several years with the curator Hans
Ulrich Obrist, he discusses the many dimensions of his artistic
life, ranging over subjects including ceramics, blogging, nature,
philosophy and the myriad influences that have fed into his work.
He also talks candidly about his father, his childhood spent in
exile and his criticism of the Chinese state. Together, these
extraordinary discussions are an essential reminder of the need for
personal, political and artistic freedom.
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