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Alexander Calder (1898-1976) is one of modernism’s most captivating and influential figures. First trained as a mechanical engineer, Calder relocated from New York to Paris in the mid-twenties where his acceptance into the city’s burgeoning avant-garde circles coincided with the development of his characteristic form of kinetic sculpture. His early work Cirque Calder,(...)
Alexander Calder: performing sculpture
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Alexander Calder (1898-1976) is one of modernism’s most captivating and influential figures. First trained as a mechanical engineer, Calder relocated from New York to Paris in the mid-twenties where his acceptance into the city’s burgeoning avant-garde circles coincided with the development of his characteristic form of kinetic sculpture. His early work Cirque Calder, which was presented throughout Paris to great acclaim, prefigures the performance and theatrical aspects that dominate Calder’s pioneering artistic works and are situated as a primary subject of intrigue in this publication.
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In the summer of 1970, the artist Les Levine arrived at the University of Toronto to take part in the installation of site-specific work on the quadrangle in front of the University's Hart House. The intended piece—construction materials hung from high-tension rope between campus buildings—was quickly stymied as Levine encountered a series of bureaucratic impediments on(...)
February 2016
Red tape, a new work by Les Levine, 1970
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In the summer of 1970, the artist Les Levine arrived at the University of Toronto to take part in the installation of site-specific work on the quadrangle in front of the University's Hart House. The intended piece—construction materials hung from high-tension rope between campus buildings—was quickly stymied as Levine encountered a series of bureaucratic impediments on the part of the University staff. What ensued was played into the conceptual conceit the artist had envisioned for the project. By collating the correspondence, telephone transcripts, and visual documentation of the eventual installation process, Levine used the work to demonstrate how the university itself functioned as a system. Red Tape publishes this project, which had existed only as a dossier in the artist's archive, for the first time.
Theo Van Doesburg
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A la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale, les avant-gardes européennes sont porteuses d'une volonté de changement et d'un espoir d'avenir meilleur. Plus que tout autre, Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931) participe à cet effort de reconstruction en élargissant l'esthétique néo-plastique de Piet Mondrian à toutes les disciplines : peinture, sculpture, architecture et arts(...)
Theo Van Doesburg
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A la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale, les avant-gardes européennes sont porteuses d'une volonté de changement et d'un espoir d'avenir meilleur. Plus que tout autre, Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931) participe à cet effort de reconstruction en élargissant l'esthétique néo-plastique de Piet Mondrian à toutes les disciplines : peinture, sculpture, architecture et arts appliqués. Theo van Doesburg propose une véritable révolution, qui vise à transformer le monde de chaque individu, à créer une nouvelle expression de l'art, qui soit en interaction avec la complexité de la vie et avec l'évolution des sciences et des techniques. Sa démarche en constante évolution convoque des mouvances a priori incompatibles comme le dadaïsme et le néoplasticisme et tend à promouvoir l'innovation, ce qu'atteste son évolution vers l'élémentarisme, puis vers l'Art Concret. Pour défendre son projet à un niveau international, Van Doesburg, également fondateur du mouvement et de la revue De Stijl, a su fédérer tous les artistes qui comptaient. Il est reconnu autant pour ses réalisations plastiques que pour sa façon d'accomplir un idéal philosophique, artistique et collectif. La notoriété internationale de nombreux artistes, dont celle de Mondrian, en bénéficiera largement.
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Edward Bawden scrapbooks
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Painter and illustrator Edward Bawden’s five scrapbooks, assembled over a period of more than 55 years, contain everything from stamps, photographs, cigarette cards, Christmas cards and letters to newspaper cuttings, drawings and autographs, amongst other fascinating ephemera.Illustrated with over 250 images taken from these books, ''Edward Bawden Scrapbooks'' reveals(...)
Edward Bawden scrapbooks
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Painter and illustrator Edward Bawden’s five scrapbooks, assembled over a period of more than 55 years, contain everything from stamps, photographs, cigarette cards, Christmas cards and letters to newspaper cuttings, drawings and autographs, amongst other fascinating ephemera.Illustrated with over 250 images taken from these books, ''Edward Bawden Scrapbooks'' reveals this wonderful and at times eccentric collection and provides a new insight into one of the most popular artists of 20th-century Britain.
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Unspoken Spaces explores the artist’s driving interest in finding visionary shapes to represent abstract ideas. It is a richly illustrated journey through spheres, tunnels, towers, walkways and archways, as well as pavilions and larger buildings realized by Eliasson and his studio since the late 1990s.
Studio Olafur Eliasson: unspoken spaces
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Unspoken Spaces explores the artist’s driving interest in finding visionary shapes to represent abstract ideas. It is a richly illustrated journey through spheres, tunnels, towers, walkways and archways, as well as pavilions and larger buildings realized by Eliasson and his studio since the late 1990s.
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Based around an out-of-print anthology devoted to prehistoric collections unearthed by archaeological expeditions in Algeria, French artist Camille Henrot's latest project treats this ethnographic material as motifs of a contemporary grotesque. The scientific document photographs, diagrams, and captions becomes part of a layered array incorporating traces of our present(...)
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December 2015
Camille Henrot: prehistoric collections
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Based around an out-of-print anthology devoted to prehistoric collections unearthed by archaeological expeditions in Algeria, French artist Camille Henrot's latest project treats this ethnographic material as motifs of a contemporary grotesque. The scientific document photographs, diagrams, and captions becomes part of a layered array incorporating traces of our present age: humans, animals, plants, minerals, and other objects. Freely mixing the pre- and post-historic, archaic and actual, Henrot constructs an exploration of human bodies, information media, and meaning using dated pornography, technological refuse, tools and instruments, signs, and more.
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La vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Klee retracées au travers de 100 tableaux parmi les plus évocateurs.
Soulages papiers
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Catalogue officiel de l'exposition Pierre Soulages, les papiers au Musée Picasso d'Antibes du 20 février à fin juin 2016. Pierre Soulages (né en 1919 à Rodez) est reconnu comme l'une des figures majeures de l'abstraction. Ses tableaux noirs ont été exposés dans les plus grands musées du monde. Mais c'est tout particulièrement à son œuvre sur papier - à l'origine domaine(...)
Soulages papiers
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Catalogue officiel de l'exposition Pierre Soulages, les papiers au Musée Picasso d'Antibes du 20 février à fin juin 2016. Pierre Soulages (né en 1919 à Rodez) est reconnu comme l'une des figures majeures de l'abstraction. Ses tableaux noirs ont été exposés dans les plus grands musées du monde. Mais c'est tout particulièrement à son œuvre sur papier - à l'origine domaine réservé de l'artiste pour expérimenter de nouvelles pistes de recherches - que veut rendre hommage le musée Picasso d'Antibes.
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Jheronimus Bosch
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Cette édition présente l'ouvre complet de Jérôme Bosch et rend hommage à la stupéfiante envergure de ses compositions aussi bien qu'aux détails les plus étranges et intrigants de ses peintures. Avec l'historien d'art et expert reconnu de Bosch Stefan Fischer pour guide, le livre permet d'apprécier tous les éléments passionnants qui peuplent chaque scène, des créatures(...)
Jheronimus Bosch
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Cette édition présente l'ouvre complet de Jérôme Bosch et rend hommage à la stupéfiante envergure de ses compositions aussi bien qu'aux détails les plus étranges et intrigants de ses peintures. Avec l'historien d'art et expert reconnu de Bosch Stefan Fischer pour guide, le livre permet d'apprécier tous les éléments passionnants qui peuplent chaque scène, des créatures hybrides moitié humaines moitié animales aux représentations torturées du corps, en passant par les illustrations ironiques des proverbes et expressions.
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Cornelia Parker: Verso
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This diminutive artist’s book was specially commissioned by Ivorypress as part of an ongoing series. ‘Verso’ is a previously unpublished work by British sculptor and installation artist Cornelia Parker. Taking button samplers as her starting point, Parker uncovers the patterns left by the buttons and holes on the reverse side of these mundane pieces, using string and(...)
Cornelia Parker: Verso
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This diminutive artist’s book was specially commissioned by Ivorypress as part of an ongoing series. ‘Verso’ is a previously unpublished work by British sculptor and installation artist Cornelia Parker. Taking button samplers as her starting point, Parker uncovers the patterns left by the buttons and holes on the reverse side of these mundane pieces, using string and thread to create drawings and paths while attempting to reveal the motivations they might hide, or even what they could say about those who made them. A short but evocative text by Colm Tóibín offers some perspective on the work.
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