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Dayanita Singh is the winner of the 2022 Hasselblad Award. With
this book, the internationally celebrated artist Dayanita Singh
returns to her artistic beginnings. In the catalogue for the first
comprehensive retrospective, the first stop of which is hosted by
the Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin, Singh presents early works from
her 1980-1986 oeuvre. From hundreds of slides and contact prints,
the artist made a selection of personal and powerful
black-and-white photographs. As a rediscovery and look into her own
past, the theme of the "archive", central to Singh's work, takes on
a central dimension here. The media of photography, installation
and book intertwine in Singh's work in a unique way, which is why
this book also features recent photographs from the exhibition.
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Yin Xiuzhen (Paperback)
Hou Hanru, Hung Wu, Stephanie Rosenthal
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A leading female sculptor and figure in Chinese contemporary art,
Yin Xiuzhen (b. 1963, Beijing, China) began her career in the early
1990s following her graduation from Capital Normal University in
Beijing where she received a B.A. from the Fine Arts Department in
1989. Best known for her works that incorporate second-hand
objects, Yin uses her artwork to explore modern issues of
globalization and homogenization. By utilizing recycled materials
such as sculptural documents of memory, she seeks to personalize
objects and allude to the lives of specific individuals, which are
often neglected in the drive toward excessive urbanization, rapid
modern development and the growing global economy. The artist
explains, "In a rapidly changing China, 'memory' seems to vanish
more quickly than everything else. That's why preserving memory has
become an alternative way of life."
The companion to the groundbreaking new retrospective at the
Gropius Bau, this publication examines Kusama's life and work
through wholly original insights by leading experts. The book
traces the development of Kusama's creative output from her early
paintings and accumulative sculptures to her immersive
environments, as well exploring her lesser-known artistic activity
in Europe and Germany in particular. It illuminates Kusama's
commitment to political and social issues in Europe, the US and
Japan. A diverse selection of images and archival documents feature
alongside texts by authors from different theoretical backgrounds.
Essays discuss Kusama's accomplishments in the worlds of fashion,
film, art marketing and publishing. They focus on her engagement
with different artistic spheres and offer genre-specific
observations about her performances, installations and painting
series. As panoramic and fascinating as its subject, this
monumental retrospective guides viewers interested in Kusama
towards a deeper understanding of her creative trajectory and of
the breadth of her extraordinary career.
Alongside the classical reading of the garden as a secluded and
circumscribed place of yearning full of meditative, spiritual, and
philosophical possibilities, it is viewed in the exhibition as a
place of duality and contradiction: a threshold between reality and
fantasy, utopia and dystopia, harmony and chaos, between being shut
out and being included. In today's world, defined by radical
climate change and migratory flows, the garden can be seen as a
place of paradise and exile, reflecting within its borders themes
as pressing as the anthropocene, seed politics, the legacies of
colonialism and historical segregation. In addition to deliberate
political positions, the Garden of Earthly Delights features works
that also bring to life the sensual dimensions of gardens:
immersive installations and video works show an intensive abundance
of nature, but also the fragility of the paradise-like state.
Artists: Maria Thereza Alves, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Hicham
Berrada, John Cage, Tacita Dean, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg,
Futurefarmers, Lungiswa Gqunta, Rashid Johnson, Yayoi Kusama,
Louise Lawler, Renato Leotta, Isabel Lewis and LABOUR, Libby
Harward, Jumana Manna, Uriel Orlow, Heather Phillipson, Pipilotti
Rist, Maaike Schoorel, Taro Shinoda, Zheng Bo. Text in English and
German.
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Zheng Bo - WANWU I
Zheng Bo; Contributions by Phillip E Bloom, Matthias Rillig, Stephanie Rosenthal, Annie Sprinkle, …
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R906
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