Cecilia Vicuña: Deer book
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Inspired initially by Jerome Rothenberg’s translation Flower World Variations, which Cecilia Vicuña (born 1948) first encountered in 1985, ''Cecilia Vicuña: Deer Book'' brings together nearly 40 years of the artist’s poetry, "poethical" translations and drawings related to cosmologies and mythologies surrounding the deer, and sacrificial dance in cultures around the(...)
Cecilia Vicuña: Deer book
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Inspired initially by Jerome Rothenberg’s translation Flower World Variations, which Cecilia Vicuña (born 1948) first encountered in 1985, ''Cecilia Vicuña: Deer Book'' brings together nearly 40 years of the artist’s poetry, "poethical" translations and drawings related to cosmologies and mythologies surrounding the deer, and sacrificial dance in cultures around the world. Woven like one of her quipu installations, Vicuña’s texts—which include original compositions in Spanish as well as English translations by Daniel Borzutzky—become meditations on translation, not just of the sacred nature of this animal but on how our understandings of ceremony and ritual are transformed by this ongoing process. Taken as inspiration rather than conundrum, the impossibility of translation opens up poetic possibilities for Vicuña as she continues her lifelong exploration into the nature of communication across eras and distant lands, languages and shared symbols within Indigenous spiritualities.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Over the past twenty years, Camille Henrot has developed a critically acclaimed practice that moves seamlessly between drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, and film. ''Mother Tongue'' is Henrot’s first publication focused solely on painting and drawing, bringing together over 200 works from the series ''System of Attachment'', ''Wet Job'', and ''Soon'', created(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
August 2023
Camille Henrot: Mother tongue
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Over the past twenty years, Camille Henrot has developed a critically acclaimed practice that moves seamlessly between drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, and film. ''Mother Tongue'' is Henrot’s first publication focused solely on painting and drawing, bringing together over 200 works from the series ''System of Attachment'', ''Wet Job'', and ''Soon'', created between 2018 and 2022. This recent body of work addresses the ambivalent nature of care and the tension between the simultaneous developmental need for attachment and independence, beginning at infancy and continuing throughout life. Her deeply personal and intimate interrogations ultimately relate to broader questions such as the expectations placed on mothers and the representation of the female body. This richly illustrated catalogue is accompanied by texts from Emily LaBarge, Legacy Russell, Marcus Steinweg, Hélene Cixous, Seamus Kealy, and a conversation with Camille Henrot and curator Julika Bosch.
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Justine Blau: Veil of nature
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Endemic to the Galapagos Islands, Sicyos villosus was collected by Charles Darwin during his journey on the Beagle between 1831 and 1836, but it is now extinct. After reading that a group of contemporary scientists were hoping to de-extinct Sicyos villosus using biotechnologies, Justine Blau began to investigate what it means to bring a species back to life. She undertook(...)
Justine Blau: Veil of nature
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Endemic to the Galapagos Islands, Sicyos villosus was collected by Charles Darwin during his journey on the Beagle between 1831 and 1836, but it is now extinct. After reading that a group of contemporary scientists were hoping to de-extinct Sicyos villosus using biotechnologies, Justine Blau began to investigate what it means to bring a species back to life. She undertook a journey to understand the desire for de-extinction and just what it was that science was now trying to save. Through her encounters with researchers and scientists in herbaria and seed banks, as well as her travels to the Galapagos, she uncovered a matrix of contradictions that radically challenge the modern scientific conservation complex.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Un projet tricontinental d'exposition et de publication qui prend la forme d'une monographie multi-auteurs pour présenter un artiste, figure majeure de l'art contemporain au Maroc, dont le travail crée un espace de connexion avec soi (être ici et maintenant). Publiée en français, en anglais et en arabe, co-éditée par le Smith College Museum of Art et Zamân Books &(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
June 2024
Younès Rahmoun : Ici et maintenant
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Un projet tricontinental d'exposition et de publication qui prend la forme d'une monographie multi-auteurs pour présenter un artiste, figure majeure de l'art contemporain au Maroc, dont le travail crée un espace de connexion avec soi (être ici et maintenant). Publiée en français, en anglais et en arabe, co-éditée par le Smith College Museum of Art et Zamân Books & Curating, cette monographie comprend des contributions de chercheurs, directeurs de musées et scientifiques constituant ainsi un apport significatif à l'histoire de l'art contemporain avec notamment des essais d'Emma Chubb et de l'écrivain et poète Omar Berrada. L'ouvrage est organisé en trois mouvements entre les polarités actives dans le travail de Younès Rahmoun : Migration/Enracinement, Unique/Multiple et Ici/Ailleurs, mettant ainsi en avant les thèmes majeurs de son travail qui vise l'universel.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Initié par l'artiste, l'architecte et scénographe tunisien Chedly Atallah, dont la pratique explore les changements géopolitiques dans le monde arabe à travers l'Histoire, l'architecture et les récits mythologiques, ''Matar, Matar, Matar'' est un travail sur le temps de la représentation et de la mémoire, une enquête artistique au cours de laquelle histoires de vie, passé(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
July 2024
Chedly Atallah: Matar, Matar, Matar
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Initié par l'artiste, l'architecte et scénographe tunisien Chedly Atallah, dont la pratique explore les changements géopolitiques dans le monde arabe à travers l'Histoire, l'architecture et les récits mythologiques, ''Matar, Matar, Matar'' est un travail sur le temps de la représentation et de la mémoire, une enquête artistique au cours de laquelle histoires de vie, passé et actualités s'entrecroisent, autour de l'eau pour métaphore du souvenir.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Partant du manifeste écrit en 1968, ''Casa ideale'' explore la portée poétique de l'œuvre de Pier Paolo Calzolari : un texte programmatique qui devient le vecteur d'une série d'idées qui orientent la pratique de l'artiste, en précisant clairement ses intentions et en ouvrant la voie à de multiples interprétations. Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition du même nom au NMNM(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
July 2024
Pier Paolo Calzolari: Casa ideale
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Partant du manifeste écrit en 1968, ''Casa ideale'' explore la portée poétique de l'œuvre de Pier Paolo Calzolari : un texte programmatique qui devient le vecteur d'une série d'idées qui orientent la pratique de l'artiste, en précisant clairement ses intentions et en ouvrant la voie à de multiples interprétations. Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition du même nom au NMNM - Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, cet ouvrage offre un large aperçu des recherches de Calzolari, retraçant les moments clés d'une carrière qui a marqué aussi bien les fondements de l'Arte Povera que ceux de l'art conceptuel. À travers des reproductions d'œuvres et de performances historiques, une nouvelle série de dessins inédits et un recueil de textes commandés spécialement pour l'occasion, le livre offre une occasion rare de découvrir l'univers de Pier Paolo Calzolari, connu pour ses approches non conventionnelles des différentes formes d'arts visuels.
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A book about Ray
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Ray Johnson (1927-1995), a.k.a. "New York's most famous unknown artist," was notorious for the elaborate games he played with the institutions of the art world, soliciting their attention even as he rejected their invitations. In A Book about Ray, Ellen Levy offers a comprehensive study of the artist who turned the business of career-making into a tongue-in-cheek(...)
A book about Ray
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Ray Johnson (1927-1995), a.k.a. "New York's most famous unknown artist," was notorious for the elaborate games he played with the institutions of the art world, soliciting their attention even as he rejected their invitations. In A Book about Ray, Ellen Levy offers a comprehensive study of the artist who turned the business of career-making into a tongue-in-cheek performance, tracing his artistic development from his arrival at Black Mountain College in 1945 to his death in 1995. Levy describes Johnson's practice as one that was constantly shifting—whether in tone, in its address to potential audiences, or among three primary artistic modes: collage, performance, and correspondence art.
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What black is this you say?
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What Black Is This You Say?, by Amanda Williams, convenes a broad set of contributors to respond to her own eponymous public artwork at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City (2021–2023). In this collection, the 17 colors and captions that appeared on the facade of Storefront—the project began as a series of Instagram posts of different hues of black, paired(...)
What black is this you say?
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What Black Is This You Say?, by Amanda Williams, convenes a broad set of contributors to respond to her own eponymous public artwork at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City (2021–2023). In this collection, the 17 colors and captions that appeared on the facade of Storefront—the project began as a series of Instagram posts of different hues of black, paired with witty and incisive comments on the multiplicity of Black culture—are expounded upon in poems, essays, and prose. With this anthology, Williams deliberately departs from traditional art criticism by gathering an intimate ensemble of her peers, friends, and collaborators, including Roxane Gay, Corinne Bailey Rae, and J Wortham, to comment on her work.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Abramovic-isms
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Marina Abramovic is arguably the most important and influential performance artist of our time. For decades, she has broken boundaries in iconic works such as "The Artist Is Present" (2010), where she sat in silence across from members of the public at the Museum of Modern Art for eight hours a day for three months, and "Rhythm 0" (1974), a six-hour performance in which(...)
Abramovic-isms
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Marina Abramovic is arguably the most important and influential performance artist of our time. For decades, she has broken boundaries in iconic works such as "The Artist Is Present" (2010), where she sat in silence across from members of the public at the Museum of Modern Art for eight hours a day for three months, and "Rhythm 0" (1974), a six-hour performance in which she stood next to a table holding seventy-two objects, including a scalpel and a loaded gun, and a sign suggesting audience members could do to her whatever they wanted. Gathered from interviews, lectures, writings, and other sources, "Abramovic-isms" is a unique collection of quotations that offers a window into the mind of this iconic trailblazer.
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Helen McNicoll
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Cet ouvrage, qui s’articule principalement autour de l’idée de mobilité, accompagne l’exposition Helen McNicoll. Un voyage impressionniste, présentée au Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. C’est en effet par la mobilité, à la fois l’amour du voyage et la découverte de nouveaux espaces, que se distingue Helen McNicoll et ce, à une époque où les femmes issues de(...)
Helen McNicoll
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Cet ouvrage, qui s’articule principalement autour de l’idée de mobilité, accompagne l’exposition Helen McNicoll. Un voyage impressionniste, présentée au Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. C’est en effet par la mobilité, à la fois l’amour du voyage et la découverte de nouveaux espaces, que se distingue Helen McNicoll et ce, à une époque où les femmes issues de milieux aisés sont le plus souvent confinées à la domesticité. Privilégiant la peinture en plein air et les recherches sur les effets de lumière et d’atmosphère, effets nourris par ses nombreux voyages, elle a pour sujets de prédilection les scènes de la vie quotidienne, bien qu’elle parvienne à en donner une interprétation distincte des impressionnistes en ce qu’elle est centrée davantage sur le labeur féminin.
Contemporary Art Monographs