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Here is what happens when Jeff Koons, one of the most important and
controversial artists of the twenty-first century, sits down with
distinguished art curator Sir Norman Rosenthal. Published to
coincide with his 2014 2015 retrospective, this new book provides
the most revealing portrait that exists of Jeff Koons singular
personality and artistic vision as he discusses works across his
thirty-five -year career with his long-time friend and collaborator
Rosenthal. Rosenthal s masterful interviews, conducted over three
years, give unparalleled access to the thoughts of one of the most
influential minds in contemporary culture, disclosing the artist
undistorted and in his own words. As well as examining all his
major series in depth, from his first inflatables to his latest
series on antiquities, the interviews shed new light on the artist
s interest in other artists works, reveal the significance of his
youth and family life on his art, and explain the key concepts of
his practice, such as his ideas on self-acceptance, ecstasy and
sex. A book of historic importance, extensively and comprehensively
illustrated throughout, it will become the reference point for all
who want to understand Koons and creativity in the twenty-first
century."
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Anish Kapoor: Painting (Hardcover)
James Attlee, Clare Chapman, Emma Ridgway; Text written by Homi K. Bhabha, Julia Kristeva, …
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"I couldn't think of a better place to have a dialogue about art
today and what it can be" - Jeff Koons Curated by Koons himself,
together with guest curator Norman Rosenthal, this show features
seventeen important works, fourteen of which have never been
exhibited in the UK before. They span the artist's entire career
and his most well-known series, including Equilibrium, Statuary,
Banality, Antiquity and his recent Gazing Ball sculptures and
paintings. This exhibition will provoke a conversation between his
creations and the history of art and ideas with which his work
engages. Jeff Koons burst onto the contemporary art scene in the
1980s. He has been described as the most famous, important,
subversive, controversial and expensive artist in the world. From
his earliest works Koons has explored the 'ready-made' and
'appropriated image', using unadulterated found objects and
creating painstaking replicas of ancient sculptures and Old Master
paintings which almost defy belief in their craftsmanship and
precision. Throughout his career Koons has pushed at the boundaries
of contemporary art practice, stretching the limits of what is
possible. This publication accompanies an exhibiton, running from
February to June, 2019 at the Ashmolean. Koons will be in
conversation with Martin Kemp at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, in
May 2019. Contents: Director's Foreword; interview with Jeff Koons
(by Xa Sturgis); Jeff Koons and the Sheen and Shine of Time (Sir
Norman Rosenthal); catalogue entries; Jeff Koon biography.
An ambitious intergenerational survey of twenty-five contemporary
New York artists. Contemporary art, like the city of New York, has
seen massive growth over the past five decades. The twenty-five
artists profiled in Empire State, from Dan Graham and Jeff Koons to
the net-based Tabor Robak, question existing conventions and
explore the new possibilities manifested by their community's new,
near-industrial scale. Empire State is an exhibition that asks how
artists might reimagine urban life and how the city of New York
might continue to be a site of contestation. Making new connections
among the artists via commissioned pieces, the book includes essays
by the show's curators, Alex Gartenfeld and Sir Norman Rosenthal,
and by Tom McDonough, John Miller, Eileen Myles, and Matt Keegan.
Each artist's work is paired with original texts by a host of
leading critics and curators, such as Bruce Hainley, Hans-Ulrich
Obrist, Bonnie Clearwater, and Tina Kukielski.
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Rainer Fetting - Blumen & (Hardcover)
Rainer Fetting; Text written by Oliver Koerner Von Gustorf, Norman Rosenthal; Designed by Enver Hadzijaj
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Rainer Fetting achieved international recognition with the "New
Wild Ones" in the early 1980s. With its elements of Expressionist
painting, his art formed in opposition to the conventions of
Abstract and Conceptual Art toward the end of the 1970s is highly
topical again today. Fetting's painting is a significant precursor
for the "queer" discourses on gender, identity, the individual, and
power that not only shape the works of younger generations in our
globalized art world but also current mainstream debates. His
"expressive" portraits, cityscapes, and landscapes as well as the
still lifes and flower paintings on which this publication focuses
capture psychosocial energies that are evident in every painterly
decision he makes. Works from four decades are presented here, some
of them unpublished, early drawn studies and paintings from the
time Fetting was commuting between New York and Berlin the 1980s
and 1990s in addition to recent paintings, works on paper, and
sculptures. The illustrated book is published in conjunction with
the exhibition in the spaces of the Miettinen Collection in Berlin.
Working together as a husband-wife team for the past three decades,
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov have defined and pushed Eastern European
conceptualism to epic levels. Their large-scale installations and
paintings seamlessly merge both reality and myth to create
hyper-theatrical environments. By integrating the visual culture of
the former Soviet Union from the 1950s to '70s into the traditional
lexicon of art history, their work addresses universal ideas of
utopia, fantasy and hope, as well as fear and oppression. The
exhibition Paintings about Paintings at Dallas Contemporary and the
accompanying catalogue focus on the most recent body of work, some
of which never-before seen. Text in English and Spanish.
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