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Si la notion d’art public apparaît maintenant entendue de tous, elle n’épuise point l’apport des artistes à la fondation ou refondation de la ville. Parce que leur démarche à pour objet un dévoilement du monde, ces derniers contribuent à révéler le caractère des lieux ou espaces. Ainsi, en concourant non plus seulement à l’embellissement de la ville via la statuaire ou(...)
Penser la ville par l'art contemporain
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Si la notion d’art public apparaît maintenant entendue de tous, elle n’épuise point l’apport des artistes à la fondation ou refondation de la ville. Parce que leur démarche à pour objet un dévoilement du monde, ces derniers contribuent à révéler le caractère des lieux ou espaces. Ainsi, en concourant non plus seulement à l’embellissement de la ville via la statuaire ou les fameux "1 %", mais à l’élaboration même du projet urbain, ils participent à la réflexion sur le devenir de la ville contemporaine. De la sorte les interventions artistiques en milieu urbain ne sont plus la transposition en extérieur de l’art muséal mais une nouvelle dimension de l’aménagement. À visiter les oeuvres d’artistes comme Andrea Blum, Daniel Buren, Nathalie Dubois & Mustafa Sanaoui, Bill Fontana, Dani Karavan, Yann Kersalé, Tania Mouraud et bien d’autres créateurs dont Dominique Perrault à observer les nombreuses expériences en Allemagne, France, Hollande ainsi que par le monde.
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude are renowned for their dramatic and innovative public projects. Their installations often feature fabric, sometimes wrapped around existing structures or used to create large-scale temporary environments. Some of their most influential projects include Running Fence in Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, Surrounded Islands in Miami, the Pont(...)
May 2004, New Haven / London
Christo & Jeanne-Claude : on the way to The Gates, Central Park, New York City
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude are renowned for their dramatic and innovative public projects. Their installations often feature fabric, sometimes wrapped around existing structures or used to create large-scale temporary environments. Some of their most influential projects include Running Fence in Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, Surrounded Islands in Miami, the Pont Neuf Wrapped in Paris, the Wrapped Reichstag in Berlin, and The Umbrellas simultaneously in Japan and California. Now New York City, where they have lived and worked for forty years, will be the site for a much-anticipated Christo and Jeanne-Claude project. The Gates will consist of saffron-coloured fabric panels suspended from the horizontal tops of over 7,500 sixteen-foot-tall vinyl gates, positioned at regular intervals throughout 23 miles of walkways of Central Park. The installation will be on view for sixteen days, beginning February 12, 2005 (weather permitting). This book, published in conjunction with a major exhibition that opens in April 2004 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, celebrates the culmination of the artists' vision for The Gates, a project that began in 1979. It includes an illustrated introduction by Jonathan Fineberg that surveys the career of Christo and Jeanne-Claude and assesses their contribution to contemporary art and culture.
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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(...)
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January 1900, Milan
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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An exhibition catalogue from the Migros Museum featuring 21 artists and architects including Anish Kapoor, Jane and Louise Wilson, James Casebere, and Daniel Libeskind among others. The exhibition takes as its point of departure three contexts in which space occupies a central position: Sigmund Freud’s notion of “das Unheimliche” and psychoanalytical elaboration of(...)
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November 2003, Zurich / Gdansk
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered : spatial emotion in contemporary art and architecture
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An exhibition catalogue from the Migros Museum featuring 21 artists and architects including Anish Kapoor, Jane and Louise Wilson, James Casebere, and Daniel Libeskind among others. The exhibition takes as its point of departure three contexts in which space occupies a central position: Sigmund Freud’s notion of “das Unheimliche” and psychoanalytical elaboration of space and its emotion; Michel Foucault’s other spaces – heterotopias and their counter-site qualities of socio-political implications; and Walter Benjamin’s outmoded and repressed space with all its auratic traces (fake or authentic) of philosophical and historic charge. “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered” aims to exploit the psychological associations of space with its multiplicity of emotional overtones, mapping its extremes and its psychic environment. Focusing on spatial pathologies (agoraphobia, vertigo, claustrophobia...), the exhibition identifies space as a cause of mental disorder, fear or estrangement, ultimate trauma. Hysteria, panic and neurosis overlap with other spatial stories of psychic unrest and unease: distortions and perversions (warped space); anxiety and enigmas (haunted space); spatial inconvenience and discomfort, perfectly domestic and yet alienating; space half-spoken, half-pronounced: a promise, a puzzle, a magic spell, temptation.
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Some art is dismissed as "difficult"--difficult because of the media it employs, but even more so because of the sociopolitical themes it addresses. This art is often conceptual or performative, works cross-disciplinarily with architecture and design, and critically examines social parameters and the role of the media. Its media is naturally mixed, spanning and going(...)
Occupying space : Sammlung Generali Foundation collection
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Some art is dismissed as "difficult"--difficult because of the media it employs, but even more so because of the sociopolitical themes it addresses. This art is often conceptual or performative, works cross-disciplinarily with architecture and design, and critically examines social parameters and the role of the media. Its media is naturally mixed, spanning and going beyond photography, film, video, and installation, all of which allow for process-oriented engagement. The Generali Foundation in Vienna has devoted much of its collection, exhibition energy, and research focus to this "difficult" type of artwork. Though many of the artists that form its collection are part of the canon of recent art history, they are mostly underrepresented in institutions--but not the Generali Foundation. Occupying Space presents a dense, comprehensive selection of projects from its collection by such artists as Valie Export, Andrea Fraser, Isa Genzken, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Hans Hollein, Mary Kelly, Gordon Matta-Clark, Adrian Piper, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, Peter Weibel, and Franz West, together with brief, articulate texts on their work.
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Ed Ruscha : the drawn word
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"The Drawn Word" collects Ed Ruscha's work on paper, from his gunpowder drawings of the 60s and 70s through his more recent work from the 90s. Ruscha's treatment of language, of signs and words, has been extremely influential over the last 40 years. His delicate use of a variety of media, from gunpowder to pastel, makes his work on paper some of his most important. In(...)
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March 2004, Vero Beach, Florida
Ed Ruscha : the drawn word
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"The Drawn Word" collects Ed Ruscha's work on paper, from his gunpowder drawings of the 60s and 70s through his more recent work from the 90s. Ruscha's treatment of language, of signs and words, has been extremely influential over the last 40 years. His delicate use of a variety of media, from gunpowder to pastel, makes his work on paper some of his most important. In them, he comments on our relationships with certain words, employing their visual impact, sound, and meaning, bringing all of these elements together via humor, among other tools. The work is distinctly American in its references to evocative places, like Hollywood, and in its bold, often mono-syllabic style of communication. Appropriately, the design of "The Drawn Word" evidences a conceptual relationship to the work, incorporating layout grids in reference to Ruscha's interest in commercial design, and phonetic translations of each of Ruscha's words to emphasize the importance of sound in their choosing.
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While lying on the beach in Nice one day, eighteen-year-old Yves Klein and his friends decided to divide the world up among themselves. Klein (1928-1962) chose the air, the cloudless sky. He remained fascinated with the element and its immaterial quality throughout his life. In the late fifties, he and the German architect Werner Ruhnau developed plans for an(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
July 2004, Ostfildern
Air architecture : Yves Klein
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While lying on the beach in Nice one day, eighteen-year-old Yves Klein and his friends decided to divide the world up among themselves. Klein (1928-1962) chose the air, the cloudless sky. He remained fascinated with the element and its immaterial quality throughout his life. In the late fifties, he and the German architect Werner Ruhnau developed plans for an "architecture of air" composed of walls and roofs of air-as represented, for example, in the idea of the "Temple of the Elements" with fountains of water and fire and a café protected against the rain only by air currents. Klein associated this idea with a philosophy of optimism devoted to the creation of a paradise on earth, a Garden of Eden in which human beings would be free to pursue their own interests. The publication is the first book devoted exclusively to this aspect of Yves Klein's art. It includes reproductions of drawings and other works as well as essays and lectures on the subject. Additional articles by other authors emphasize the significance of Klein's work to the theme of the immaterial.
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Donald Judd
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One of the most influential American artists of the post-war period, Donald Judd changed the course of modern sculpture. Beginning as an art critic and then a painter, Judd moved into three dimensions with the box-like structures he produced in the early 1960s, either arranged on the gallery floor or mounted on the wall. Initially constructed by hand, the sculptures were(...)
Donald Judd
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One of the most influential American artists of the post-war period, Donald Judd changed the course of modern sculpture. Beginning as an art critic and then a painter, Judd moved into three dimensions with the box-like structures he produced in the early 1960s, either arranged on the gallery floor or mounted on the wall. Initially constructed by hand, the sculptures were later industrially manufactured in galvanized iron, steel, plexiglass, and plywood. His use of vibrant color, polished and reflective metals, and brightly hued lacquer confounded and continues to confound expectations of what "minimalist" sculpture should look like. This lavishly illustrated survey features 41 works from collections around the world, many of them large scale, each illustrated with full catalogue entries alongside many other major works by Judd. Contributors Nicholas Serota (Director of the Tate), Rudi Fuchs (former Director of The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam), American critics Richard Schiff and David Raskin, and British artist and critic David Batchelor explore the conflicts between previous critical interpretations of Judd and his own philosophical, political, and moral understanding of his work. Judd's critical response to the work of other artists is examined, as is the importance of color to his work, and his reaction to new man-made materials and artificially generated color in the late-20th-century environment. A section on Judd's installations at Marfa in Texas, and an extensive new chronology, compiled by Judd's assistant, Jeff Kopie, are also included. "Donald Judd" compromises the most thorough and up-to-date publication on Judd in print today.
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This book was published to celebrate the opening of the Hayward Pavilion and foyer extension in October 2003. The highlight of the project is an elliptical, two-way-mirrored-glass pavilion designed by New York based artist Dan Graham, who conceived and developed the project with Haworth Tompkins Architects. The redeveloped foyer also includes a new café, space for talks,(...)
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October 2003, London
Waterloo sunset at the Hayward Gallery
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This book was published to celebrate the opening of the Hayward Pavilion and foyer extension in October 2003. The highlight of the project is an elliptical, two-way-mirrored-glass pavilion designed by New York based artist Dan Graham, who conceived and developed the project with Haworth Tompkins Architects. The redeveloped foyer also includes a new café, space for talks, events and entertainment and improved disability access. This publication follows the development of this innovative project and includes excerpts from an interview with Dan Graham, by Mark Francis. Packed with images of the building project, architectural plans and models, the book provides a fascinating insight into a prestigious collaboration between artist and architect.
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The projects collected together here are the first group of completed Masters by Research Projects in the Interior Design postgraduate program at RMIT University in Melbourne. They cover a period from 1993 to 2000.
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October 2002, Melbourne
INTERsection : Masters projects in interior design, 1993-2000
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The projects collected together here are the first group of completed Masters by Research Projects in the Interior Design postgraduate program at RMIT University in Melbourne. They cover a period from 1993 to 2000.
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