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John Chamberlain / Hans Ulrich Obrist : the conversation series 2

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The American sculptor John Chamberlain, known for using parts of wrecked automobiles in his volumetric, abstract work, is widely considered one of the most important artists of the 60s generation. Here, he speaks with curator, museum director, writer and cultural catalyst Hans Ulrich Obrist, editor of "The conversation series", about everything from the need for a redesigned hospital gown, to his relationship to Donald Judd and Marfa, Texas, to "recipes" for making art, his years spent in the Navy, becoming a hairdresser in order to meet women, being cast as a drunken womanizer by Black Mountain College scholars, Andy Warhol's Factory, John Waters, Robert Creeley and even Chamberlains, the restaurant he owned with his son in the mid-1990s.

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Smithson time : Peter Smithson & Hans Ulrich Obrist : a dialogue / ein gespräch

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Peter and Alison Smithson are among the most influential architects of Britain`s postwar architecture. In this last interview with Ulrich Obrist in the spring of 2000, Smithson recounts developments of his architectural concepts in personal meetings, exhibitions and buildings.The form of the book tries to give space to the questions and answers; Smithson contributed the photographs. Transcript by Boris Belay.

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Hans Ulrich Obrist : interviews, volume 1

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In this collection, Hans-Ulrich Obrist interviews everyone, including Marina Abramovic & Gregory Chaitin / Vito Acconci / JG Ballard / Matthew Barney / Dara Birnbaum / Christian & Luc Boltanski / Stefano Boeri / Daniel Buren / Giancarlo de Carlo / Maurizio Cattelan / Johannes Cladders / Constant / Giancarlo de Carlo / Olafur Eliasson / Brian Eno / Esquivell / Yona Friedman / Hans Georg Gadamer / Gilbert and George / Edouard Glissant / Felix Gonzalez-Torres / Dominique Gonzalez Foerster / Douglas Gordon / Dan Graham / Joseph Grigely / Zaha Hadid / Stuart Hall / Thomas Hirschhorn /Carsten Höller / Walter Hopps / Roni Horn / Yong Ping Huang / Pontus Hulten / Pierre Huygue / Arata Isozaki / Billy Klüver / Rem Koolhaas / Bul Lee / Sarat Maharaj and Francisco Varela / Ernest Mancoba / Roberto Matta / Cildo Meireles / Jonas Mekas / Mario Merz / Santu Mofokeng / Yoko Ono / Gabriel Orozco / Frei Otto / Lygia Pape / Claude Parent / Philippe Parreno / Michelangelo Pistoletto / Ilya Prigogine / Jacques Ranciere / Gerhard Richter / Pipilotti Rist / Israel Rosenfield / Jean Rouch / Anri Sala / Katzuyo Sejima / Ettore Sottsass / Luc Steels / Rirkrit Tiravanija / Agnès Varda / Lawrence Weiner / Franz West / Cerith Wyn Evans / Anton Zeilinger It is not an exaggeration to write that Hans-Ulrich Obrist is everywhere, has curated everything and has interviewed everyone. If "peripatetic" is the word most overused to describe him, it is not inappropriate. The Swiss-born, everywhere-based curator and head of the Programme Migrateurs at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris has an unstoppable wanderlust and a related symptom: his penchant for interviewing anyone and everyone who piques his curiosity, be they artist, scientist, writer, curator, composer, architect, thinker, etc. Since 1993, Obrist has conducted more than 300 interviews, 75 of which are collected here in a selection that respects the cultural and professional diversity of the interviewees. Each interview is introduced by a short text outlining the biography of the interviewee and giving some contextual information on the recording of the interview.

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Maria Lassnig: the pen is the sister of the brush

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Available in English for the first time, Viennese painter Maria Lassnig's diaries--originally published in German in 2000 by Hans Ulrich Obrist--are a collection of journal entries, notes, poems, letters, photographs and drawings.

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Hans Ulrich Obrist - Gustav Metzger: the conversation series 16

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In volume 16 of The Conversation Series, Hans Ulrich Obrist presents an in-depth exchange with the venerable German-born artist and activist Gustav Metzger, which illuminates the artist's fascinating life and 60-year career. In 1959, Metzger penned a manifesto of Auto-destructive art, which states in part, "Auto-destructive paintings, sculptures and constructions have a lifetime varying from a few moments to 20 years. When the disintegrative process is complete, the work is to be removed from the site and scrapped." In this volume, Metzger talks to Obrist about his past and present association with Auto-destructive art, how he has come to fuse his art practice with his political commitment to human rights and ecology, how he escaped the Holocaust at the age of 13 and the many projects he has yet to realize.

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Hans Ulrich Obrist - Enzo Mari: the conversation series 15

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Volume 15 of The Conversation Series features a riveting dialogue between series editor and cultural catalyst Hans Ulrich Obrist and the renowned Italian designer Enzo Mari. More concerned with theoretical issues in design than commercial success, Mari is one of the most thoughtful and intellectually provocative designers of the late twentieth century. His work as a product and furniture designer, as well as a writer, teacher and artist, has proved influential both to his peers and to younger generations. In this volume, Mari discusses his iconic designs for cutting-edge production houses Danese, Olivetti and Castelli, his experience of the contradictory aspects of postwar Italy and his unique take on the design trends of the 1960s and 1970s. Enzo Mari was born in 1932 in Novara, Italy. He has most recently completed a series of tubular aluminum chairs for Vienna's Gebrüder Thonet and a collection for the Japanese home store Muji.

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Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

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For a painter who has so successfully neutralized the declarative potential of his medium, Gerhard Richter has committed to print a surprisingly large amount of discussion on his work. For this new, complete edition of the writings, Richter has placed his private archive at the editor's disposal; most of the photographic material comes from this archive and has not been previously published. Includes public statements on specific exhibitions, private reflections drawn from personal correspondence, answers to questions posed by critics and journal excerpts discussing the intentions, methods and subjects of his works from various periods.

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A brief history of new music

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Hans Ulrich Obrist’s interviews map the evolution of the new music in Europe and America across all of its genres, from musique concrète to the recent hybridizations between pop and avant-garde, as techniques from both realms cross-pollinate. A Brief History of New Music is an ideal introduction to the experimental and new classical music of the past half-century.

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More than you wanted to know about John Baldessari : Vol. 1

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This first volume of JRP|Ringier’s complete John Baldessari writings project traces the genesis and development of the artist’s understanding of art in the early 1960s. More Than You Wanted to Know About John Baldessari presents Baldessari as storyteller, moralist, teacher and occasional gadfly, always concerned to accomplish what he describes as the central task of art making: to communicate in a way that people can understand. These writings address everything from matters of color in sculpture, to the dilemmas of art students in need of ideas, to the art world’s ever-conflicted relationship with money, while always returning to Baldessari’s love of language and his longstanding investigation into the tensions of word and image.

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Hans Ulrich Obrist: the future will be

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Since 2005, Hans Ulrich Obrist has asked artists, architects, scientists, actors and philosophers the world over to fill in the blank for what’s to come. Now, he turns to China to further his ongoing speculative narrative. In this elfin-size, bilingual (English/Chinese) volume, people active in Chinese culture tell Obrist what they think the future will be. Co-published with the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, this is the first installment of a new series published by Pinacoteca Giovanni and Marella Agnelli. Participants include A Yi, Nadim Abbas, Ai Weiwei, Daniel A. Bell, Cao Fei, Yung Ho Chang, Chen Jiaying, Chen Xiaoyun, Chen Man, Chen Wei, Cheng Ran, Cheng Wenhao, Chi Huisheng, Heman Chong, Chu Yun, Ding Yi, Duan Jianyu, Fang Lu, Gao Lei, Gao Weigang, Ge Lei, Frank Gehry, Gu Dexin and many others.