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Widely considered to be one of the most influential American living artists, Carrie Mae Weems has developed a practice celebrated for her exploration of cultural identity, power dynamics, desire, intimacy and social justice through a body of work that challenges the prevailing representations of race, gender, and class. Defined by the use of photography, installation,(...)
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November 2023
Carrie Mae Weems: Reflections for now
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Widely considered to be one of the most influential American living artists, Carrie Mae Weems has developed a practice celebrated for her exploration of cultural identity, power dynamics, desire, intimacy and social justice through a body of work that challenges the prevailing representations of race, gender, and class. Defined by the use of photography, installation, film, performance and textile, her remarkably diverse and radical practice questions dominant ideologies and historical narratives created and disseminated within science, architecture, and mass media. Published in the context of her solo exhibitions at Barbican Art Gallery London and Kunstmuseum Basel, this book brings together a selection of Weems’ own writings, lectures, and conversations for the first time, providing personal insights into themes such as the consequences of power, artistic appropriation, music as inspiration, history-making, and the normative role of architecture.
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Adelaide Cioni: on patterns
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This volume chronicles a recent solo exhibition by Italian artist Adelaide Cioni (born 1976). Including works across illustration, textile design, spatial installation and performance, the book showcases Cioni’s research on the origin of patterns and their ubiquitous imagery.
Adelaide Cioni: on patterns
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This volume chronicles a recent solo exhibition by Italian artist Adelaide Cioni (born 1976). Including works across illustration, textile design, spatial installation and performance, the book showcases Cioni’s research on the origin of patterns and their ubiquitous imagery.
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''148 Oblique Drawings by Serban Ionescu'' (and 1 large machine made of words) lures readers into Serban Ionescu’s sketchbook where the artist’s vibrant creations, with their playful, architectural spirit, live alongside a poem made with the help of friends and family of the Ionescu–Apartamento universes. The art book compiles a series of images made throughout Serban’s(...)
Serban Ionescu: 148 oblique drawings
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''148 Oblique Drawings by Serban Ionescu'' (and 1 large machine made of words) lures readers into Serban Ionescu’s sketchbook where the artist’s vibrant creations, with their playful, architectural spirit, live alongside a poem made with the help of friends and family of the Ionescu–Apartamento universes. The art book compiles a series of images made throughout Serban’s daily drawing practice from 2020–2023, which relied on '‘the same ruler, the same size paper…and the flow of watercolour'’.
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Sophie Calle: Picalso
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On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso, the Parisian museum dedicated to the painter invited Sophie Calle to take over the Hôtel Salé. Confronted with the figure of one of the masters of modern art, she chose to completely empty the spaces of the museum – Picasso was expelled! – in order to install her furniture and personal objects there,(...)
Sophie Calle: Picalso
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On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso, the Parisian museum dedicated to the painter invited Sophie Calle to take over the Hôtel Salé. Confronted with the figure of one of the masters of modern art, she chose to completely empty the spaces of the museum – Picasso was expelled! – in order to install her furniture and personal objects there, on the upper floors, and to unfurl, on the ground floor, a fresco imagined as an echo of the famous Guernica but composed like an immense collage of the works she has been exchanging for years with other artists. To accompany this exhibition, ''À toi de faire, ma mignon,'' Sophie Calle has imagined a work in which she lists her ''rendezvous'' with Picasso. Testimonies from guards, paintings packed during confinement, etc. : so many stories presented in this art of storytelling so particular to Sophie Calle. Designed like an artist's book with its intimate format and its alternations of Bible and creative papers, Picalso immerses the reader in the funny, poetic and singular universe of the artist. An essay by Yve-Alain Bois, entitled Picassiette , recontextualizes these ''rendezvous'' in the work of Sophie Calle and revisits her favorite themes of memory, lack, disappearance or even absence.
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Dóra Maurer (born 1937, lives in Budapest) is considered a prominent figure on the Hungarian neo-avant-garde scene. She is one of the artists who have been taking progressive paths outside of Hungary’ s official state cultural policies since the 1960s. Her work in the mediums of print making, photographs, film, performance art, and painting features a conceptual(...)
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October 2023
Dóra Maurer: See like this and see differently
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Dóra Maurer (born 1937, lives in Budapest) is considered a prominent figure on the Hungarian neo-avant-garde scene. She is one of the artists who have been taking progressive paths outside of Hungary’ s official state cultural policies since the 1960s. Her work in the mediums of print making, photographs, film, performance art, and painting features a conceptual approach. Major aspects are perception, movement, displacement, and transformation. In the early years of West-Germany, abstract art was introduced as a political new beginning in that it represented the so-called open society. Accordingly, numerous collections in German museums are oriented toward this, including the one at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, whose building was designed by the US-American architect Philip Johnson. While abstract art in the West was considered " free of ideologies " and instrumentalized as such, abstraction in countries such as Hungary, which was part of the Eastern bloc at the time, certainly had an “ oppositional” connotation. Due to both the non-representational nature of her works as well as her contacts and travels in the West prior to 1989 (permitted thanks to her Hungarian-Austrian dual citizenship), Maurer occupies a special position within the Hungarian art world, which in those days was mainly dominated by Socialist Realism. In her experiments in photography and film in the 1970s, as well as in her abstract, geometric works based on a process of displacement, there are obvious parallels to Western European and US-American post-war art. In fact, however, her oeuvre is inconceivable without her experience of life under the official Hungarian system during the socialist period.
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Who would have thought that a simple cone-shaped marker could have such a rich and mysterious history? These seemingly ordinary objects, known by various names such as road cones, safety cones, or construction cones, hold secrets waiting to be unravelled. From ancient civilisations to modern-day innovations, with a mix of history, curiosity, and a touch of surrealism,(...)
Cone wars
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Who would have thought that a simple cone-shaped marker could have such a rich and mysterious history? These seemingly ordinary objects, known by various names such as road cones, safety cones, or construction cones, hold secrets waiting to be unravelled. From ancient civilisations to modern-day innovations, with a mix of history, curiosity, and a touch of surrealism, this book takes you on a journey that blurs the lines between reality and imagination. Halfway between an art project and a visual essay, SerraGlia aims to encourage us to remain vigilant to our surroundings: how can we critically observe and evaluate what we encounter every day? The book includes also an original essay by Dr. Everett Konemann, PhD, Professor of Traffic Studies and Human Behavior at Coney Island University.
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Han Schuil: –/ BLAST / HEAT
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This monograph on the work of Dutch artist Han Schuil appears on the occasion of a solo exhibition at the historic Oud Amelisweerd estate, organised by Centraal Museum Utrecht. Both the exhibition and this book present an overview of Schuil’s work over the past two decades. As its title indicates, it focuses on three series: – (untitled), BLAST, and HEAT. In each, the(...)
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November 2023
Han Schuil: –/ BLAST / HEAT
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This monograph on the work of Dutch artist Han Schuil appears on the occasion of a solo exhibition at the historic Oud Amelisweerd estate, organised by Centraal Museum Utrecht. Both the exhibition and this book present an overview of Schuil’s work over the past two decades. As its title indicates, it focuses on three series: – (untitled), BLAST, and HEAT. In each, the possibilities of paintings and how they produce meaning are investigated through monumental works on aluminium, in ways as enigmatic as they are concrete. With are foreword by Centraal Museum director Bart Rutten and contributions by Gerrit Willems, Zippora Elders, and Laure van den Hout.
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This artist’s book is a somewhat fierce picture book showing a personal collection of ephemera collages made of material from the turn of the millennium. It contains 203 photocopies of collaged items collected by the artist between 1998 and 2003 in London, Copenhagen, Amsterdam and elsewhere. ''High Capacity'' is a compressed image of that time. Until 2016, the loosely(...)
Kasper Andreasen: High capacity
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This artist’s book is a somewhat fierce picture book showing a personal collection of ephemera collages made of material from the turn of the millennium. It contains 203 photocopies of collaged items collected by the artist between 1998 and 2003 in London, Copenhagen, Amsterdam and elsewhere. ''High Capacity'' is a compressed image of that time. Until 2016, the loosely sorted material had been neatly filed in moving boxes, whereupon the artist took action: “‘Either dump it or keep it,’ I kept saying to myself. I grabbed a stapler and gave it a try.” What you see here reveals his many varied interests: receipts, torn up checks, packaging of all sorts, drawn instructions, snapshots, vinyl lettering, and other textual imperatives. The way the book is printed also yields a fascinating, yet raw, facsimile of these photocopied collages.
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In her most personal book to date, Yayoi Kusama brings us into her private world through poetic recollections, giving insight into her creative process and the essential role language plays in her paintings, sculptures, and daily life. Centered around ''EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE'', Kusama’s acclaimed exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, in 2019, this book features(...)
Yayoi Kusama: Every day I pray for love
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In her most personal book to date, Yayoi Kusama brings us into her private world through poetic recollections, giving insight into her creative process and the essential role language plays in her paintings, sculptures, and daily life. Centered around ''EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE'', Kusama’s acclaimed exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, in 2019, this book features more than 300 pages of new paintings, sculptures, and Infinity Mirrored Rooms. It also includes photographs of Kusama over time, offering a unique visual timeline of this iconic artist.
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Mater Earth
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Pour « Château La Coste », Prune Nourry a imaginé une sculpture monumentale, représentant une femme enceinte émergeant du paysage. Installation immersive et architecture écoresponsable, « Mater Earth » nous ramène aux origines de l’humain et aux mythes de création. Vision rare d’une œuvre en train de se faire, porte ouverte sur le processus créatif, le livre met la(...)
Mater Earth
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Pour « Château La Coste », Prune Nourry a imaginé une sculpture monumentale, représentant une femme enceinte émergeant du paysage. Installation immersive et architecture écoresponsable, « Mater Earth » nous ramène aux origines de l’humain et aux mythes de création. Vision rare d’une œuvre en train de se faire, porte ouverte sur le processus créatif, le livre met la sculpture « Mater Earth » en regard de tout ce qui l’a alimentée, formée, élevée.
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