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This book features Pousttchi’s new photographic installation at Nivola Museum in Orani on the Italian island of Sardinia. She chose the Metropolitan Life Building on 1 Madison Avenue in Manhattan as her subject for this piece. Criticized for its blatant Italian references at the time of its completion in 1909 — and the world’s tallest structure until 1913 — the building(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
July 2019
Bettina Pousttchi: Metropolitan Life
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This book features Pousttchi’s new photographic installation at Nivola Museum in Orani on the Italian island of Sardinia. She chose the Metropolitan Life Building on 1 Madison Avenue in Manhattan as her subject for this piece. Criticized for its blatant Italian references at the time of its completion in 1909 — and the world’s tallest structure until 1913 — the building displays a hybrid identity, recalling cultural and temporal-spatial dislocations between the Old and the New World, Renaissance and Modernism.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Obrist: Are you here?
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« Are you here ? » compile pour la première fois les dessins au tampon que Hans Ulrich Obrist compose depuis des années. Ses compositions, parfois organisées en grappes ou en listes, flirtent avec la poésie concrète. Parfois rendus illisibles, ces leitmotivs peuvent noircir l'intégralité de la page à la suite de performances proches de la transe. Cette pratique est un(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
November 2018
Obrist: Are you here?
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« Are you here ? » compile pour la première fois les dessins au tampon que Hans Ulrich Obrist compose depuis des années. Ses compositions, parfois organisées en grappes ou en listes, flirtent avec la poésie concrète. Parfois rendus illisibles, ces leitmotivs peuvent noircir l'intégralité de la page à la suite de performances proches de la transe. Cette pratique est un exutoire pour l'auteur, un moment durant lequel il fait appel, à la manière d'un chamane, aux éléments de langage qui sont les siens. // ''Are you here?'' compiles for the first time the stamp drawings that Hans Ulrich Obrist has composed for years. Organized in clusters or lists, these poems flirt with concrete poetry. Sometimes made unreadable, these leitmotivs composed of his very own elements of language can blacken the entire page as a result of performances close to trances- a real outlet for the author.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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This publication documents this year's Serpentine Pavilion in London--a chrysalis-like structure made from colorful, transparent plastic by Spanish architects José Selgas (born 1965) and Lucía Cano (born 1965). Sketches, diagrams and construction methods are also included in this ample overview of the installation.
Architecture Monographs
January 2016
Selgascano: Serpentine Pavilion 2015
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This publication documents this year's Serpentine Pavilion in London--a chrysalis-like structure made from colorful, transparent plastic by Spanish architects José Selgas (born 1965) and Lucía Cano (born 1965). Sketches, diagrams and construction methods are also included in this ample overview of the installation.
Architecture Monographs
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'We Can’t Do This Alone: Jefferson Hack the System' re-defines the purpose of alternative media in the 21st century—drawing on a wealth of innovative projects to artfully map out a bright future for radical publishing. In the spirit of progressive individualism at its core every single copy is unique, emblazoned with an individuated, numbered cover displaying a one-off(...)
Graphic Design and Typography
May 2016
We can't do this alone: Jefferson Hack the system
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'We Can’t Do This Alone: Jefferson Hack the System' re-defines the purpose of alternative media in the 21st century—drawing on a wealth of innovative projects to artfully map out a bright future for radical publishing. In the spirit of progressive individualism at its core every single copy is unique, emblazoned with an individuated, numbered cover displaying a one-off fresco of the provocative material between its pages. If you stand for nothing, you’ll fall for anything.
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Invent the future with elements of the past: 12 Zurich artists on a stroll with Lucius Burckhardt
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'Invent the Future with Elements of the Past' looks at a fascinating recent artistic interpretation of Burckhardt’s theories: the contribution of twelve contemporary artists to the Swiss Pavilion at the fourteenth International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. Developed in Zurich and curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, the project was realized through a series(...)
Invent the future with elements of the past: 12 Zurich artists on a stroll with Lucius Burckhardt
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'Invent the Future with Elements of the Past' looks at a fascinating recent artistic interpretation of Burckhardt’s theories: the contribution of twelve contemporary artists to the Swiss Pavilion at the fourteenth International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. Developed in Zurich and curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, the project was realized through a series of strolls throughout the city that offered new narratives about the urban space. The resulting objects and events are reproduced here with more than one hundred illustrations, including many in color; interviews with the participating artists, and contributions by Judith Albert, Muriel Baumgartner with Tom Stäubli, Stefan Burger, Christina Hemauer with Roman Keller, San Keller, Adrian Notz, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Paul Polaris, Christian Ratti, Roland Roos, Tom Stäubli, Navid Tschopp, and !Mediengruppe Bitnik.
Urban Theory
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In this traditional paperback, critic and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist teams up with Dutch avant-garde architect and paradigm-shifting intellectual, Rem Koolhaas, for a discussion of Koolhaas's work in China, his designs for Prada, architecture as metaphor, and the development of urbanism in the slipstream of globalization.
Contemporary Art Monographs
April 2007, Köln
Rem Koolhaas / Hans Ulrich Obrist : the conversation series 4
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In this traditional paperback, critic and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist teams up with Dutch avant-garde architect and paradigm-shifting intellectual, Rem Koolhaas, for a discussion of Koolhaas's work in China, his designs for Prada, architecture as metaphor, and the development of urbanism in the slipstream of globalization.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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This volume, which accompanies the great retrospective exhibition devoted to Enzo Mari and curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist (Milan Triennial, 17 October 2020 – 18 April 2021), celebrates the work and thought of Enzo Mari, one of the leading masters and theorists of Italian design. These are chiefly reconstructed through the constant dialogue he engaged in, over the years,(...)
Enzo Mari
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This volume, which accompanies the great retrospective exhibition devoted to Enzo Mari and curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist (Milan Triennial, 17 October 2020 – 18 April 2021), celebrates the work and thought of Enzo Mari, one of the leading masters and theorists of Italian design. These are chiefly reconstructed through the constant dialogue he engaged in, over the years, with the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist. Plans, sketches, unpublished archive material, essays and interviews illustrate over 60 years of work, tracing for the first time a systematic and exhaustive itinerary – articulated into 19 ''research platforms'' – that conveys Mari’s sensitivity as a designer, artist, critic and theoretician, along with the striking relevance of his thought. According to Mari, design can only be regarded as such if it also transmits knowledge. His projects, which have withstood the test of time, have been conceived in such a way as to be sustainable – from a material as much as aesthetic perspective – and accessible to all. As Hans Ulrich Obrist recalls, ''For Enzo everything revolves around the object, and good design alone is destined to triumph''.
Graphic Designers, Monographs
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In ''Remember to dream!'', celebrated curator Hans Ulrich 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, musicians and more, handwritten on Post-it notes (and other scraps).
Remember to dream! 100 artists, 100 notes
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In ''Remember to dream!'', celebrated curator Hans Ulrich 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, musicians and more, handwritten on Post-it notes (and other scraps).
Art Theory
The Extreme self
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If you’re wondering why the inside of your head feels so strange these days, this book has the answers. The Extreme Self is a new kind of graphic novel that shows how you’ve been morphing into something else. It’s about the remaking of your interior world as the exterior world becomes more unfamiliar and uncertain. Over 14 timely chapters, 'The Extreme Self' tours through(...)
The Extreme self
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If you’re wondering why the inside of your head feels so strange these days, this book has the answers. The Extreme Self is a new kind of graphic novel that shows how you’ve been morphing into something else. It’s about the remaking of your interior world as the exterior world becomes more unfamiliar and uncertain. Over 14 timely chapters, 'The Extreme Self' tours through fame and intimacy, post-work and new crowds, identity crisis and eternity.
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Since the mid-1960s when he started out as a fledgling critic, Dan Graham has carved out a unique role for himself, expanding the scope of the Conceptual artist to incorporate art criticism, music criticism, photography and architecture. For this volume, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist met with Graham on several occasions to discuss the artist's work, life and the numerous(...)
Hans Ulrich Obrist, the conversation series 25 : Dan Graham
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Since the mid-1960s when he started out as a fledgling critic, Dan Graham has carved out a unique role for himself, expanding the scope of the Conceptual artist to incorporate art criticism, music criticism, photography and architecture. For this volume, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist met with Graham on several occasions to discuss the artist's work, life and the numerous interests he passionately follows. The conversation thus wanders seamlessly from architecture to rock and roll, philosophy to astrology, Graham's early performance pieces, photography and articles, to the films and glass pavilions for which he is best known today. A fountain of art folklore, Graham offers recollections of friends and colleagues, art work and influences, providing an invaluable insight not only into the New York art scene of the 60s and 70s, but also one of its most influential representatives.
Art Theory