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New York–based artist Matthew Brannon (born 1971) has spent the past five years exhaustively researching the Vietnam/American War, seeking his own understanding of one of the most pivotal confrontations of the 20th century and translating that research into intricate silkscreen works that collage military documents, maps, logos, memoranda and contemporaneous ephemera.(...)
Matthew Brannon: Concerning Vietnam
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New York–based artist Matthew Brannon (born 1971) has spent the past five years exhaustively researching the Vietnam/American War, seeking his own understanding of one of the most pivotal confrontations of the 20th century and translating that research into intricate silkscreen works that collage military documents, maps, logos, memoranda and contemporaneous ephemera. "Concerning Vietnam" distills a picture of the war and its ongoing effects in vivid, densely packed images that employ the bold graphic design for which the artist is known. Alongside these works are Brannon’s notes on the objects and situations they depict, constructing a detailed chronology of the war and a complex overview of the consequences of US intervention in Southeast Asia.
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In "From the Archives of Peter Merlin, Aviation Archaeologist", multidisciplinary artist Trevor Paglen (born 1974) collaborates with Peter Merlin, a former NASA archivist, on this new artist’s book featuring a photographic inventory of objects from the aerospace historian’s archive of research culled from military bases such as Area 51. Featuring images of challenge(...)
Trevor Paglen: From the archives of Peter Merlin, aviation archaeologist
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In "From the Archives of Peter Merlin, Aviation Archaeologist", multidisciplinary artist Trevor Paglen (born 1974) collaborates with Peter Merlin, a former NASA archivist, on this new artist’s book featuring a photographic inventory of objects from the aerospace historian’s archive of research culled from military bases such as Area 51. Featuring images of challenge coins, patches and commemorative mugs from within these bases, as well as debris recovered from the surrounding crash sites, the book presents both a social and technological investigation into the US government’s secret aviation history from the atomic age to today's drone wreckage.
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At first glance, there may appear to be more to separate Michelangelo (1475–1564) and Bill Viola (born 1951) than to unite them: one, the great master of the Italian Renaissance; the other, the creator of state-of-the-art immersive sound and video installations. And yet, when Martin Clayton showed the Queen’s unsurpassed collection of Michelangelo drawings to Viola at(...)
Bill Viola / Michelangelo: life, death, rebirth
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At first glance, there may appear to be more to separate Michelangelo (1475–1564) and Bill Viola (born 1951) than to unite them: one, the great master of the Italian Renaissance; the other, the creator of state-of-the-art immersive sound and video installations. And yet, when Martin Clayton showed the Queen’s unsurpassed collection of Michelangelo drawings to Viola at Windsor in 2006, parallels began to emerge. This book presents a new perspective on both artists’ works.
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The tenth volume in Irene Kopelman’s ‘Notes on Representation’ series charts the artist’s investigations through drawing, writing, and photographing during several trips to Argentina, where she joined groups of scientists on different research expeditions to observe their methodologies and various organisms and environments. She worked in Pampa de Achala with biologists(...)
Irene Kopelman: Cardinal points
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The tenth volume in Irene Kopelman’s ‘Notes on Representation’ series charts the artist’s investigations through drawing, writing, and photographing during several trips to Argentina, where she joined groups of scientists on different research expeditions to observe their methodologies and various organisms and environments. She worked in Pampa de Achala with biologists dealing with invasive terrestrial species and studies of litter, with a team of ecologists investigating floral ecology in the Argentine Littoral, with a group studying invasions of marine organisms at a lab in Patagonia, and with geologists and palaeontologists working in the Ischigualasto Provincial Park and Jáchal.
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Batie Suter: Cloud Service
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As with Batia Suter's previous projects, ''Cloud Service'' is primarily interested in the visual dialogue that emerges with the simple act of placing images in new relations to one another. Drawing from her vast personal library of natural history reference books, encyclopaedias, and other flea market finds, Suter assembles a mix of 'non-art' images, adapted and(...)
Batie Suter: Cloud Service
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As with Batia Suter's previous projects, ''Cloud Service'' is primarily interested in the visual dialogue that emerges with the simple act of placing images in new relations to one another. Drawing from her vast personal library of natural history reference books, encyclopaedias, and other flea market finds, Suter assembles a mix of 'non-art' images, adapted and reoriented in intuitive and often profound ways. The set of appropriated images comprising this book is a monographic index of clouds and cloud-suggestive forms. Placed in the right sequence, these images resonate in new and complex ways, manipulate each other, and take on new depths of meaning with a sort of synaptic leap.
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'Michael Heizer: The Once and Future Monuments' spans the breadth of Heizer’s career, uniquely combining fieldwork, personal narrative, and biographical research.
Michael Heizer: the once and future monuments
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'Michael Heizer: The Once and Future Monuments' spans the breadth of Heizer’s career, uniquely combining fieldwork, personal narrative, and biographical research.
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Do things have an order? This question is the starting point for Nathalie Du Pasquier’s exploration. All around lies a domestic and postmodern landscape of columns and bases, but also of objects of everyday use such as a packet of pasta or a can of beer. The French artist tries to seal off objects in simple or elaborate boxes, but they live a life of their own and run(...)
Nathalie du Pasquier: the strange order of things
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Do things have an order? This question is the starting point for Nathalie Du Pasquier’s exploration. All around lies a domestic and postmodern landscape of columns and bases, but also of objects of everyday use such as a packet of pasta or a can of beer. The French artist tries to seal off objects in simple or elaborate boxes, but they live a life of their own and run wild. There might be relationships between the objects, invisible symmetries, although ultimately even this is called into doubt...
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In collaboration with Sigur Rós musician Jónsi, Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson conceived a complex installation for his site-specific exhibition at the Marciano Art Foundation. Using projected light and the existing architecture of the museum, he created a dynamic shadow play referencing both Los Angeles' history of filmmaking and the gallery's former function as a theater.
Olafur Eliasson: reality projector
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In collaboration with Sigur Rós musician Jónsi, Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson conceived a complex installation for his site-specific exhibition at the Marciano Art Foundation. Using projected light and the existing architecture of the museum, he created a dynamic shadow play referencing both Los Angeles' history of filmmaking and the gallery's former function as a theater.
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Ai Weiwei: life cycle
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'Life Cycle' is a sculptural response to the global refugee crisis, and a series of figures based on mythic creatures from the Classic of Mountains and Seas, crafted from bamboo and silk.
Ai Weiwei: life cycle
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'Life Cycle' is a sculptural response to the global refugee crisis, and a series of figures based on mythic creatures from the Classic of Mountains and Seas, crafted from bamboo and silk.
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Ellsworth Kelly: Austin
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In January 2015, Ellsworth Kelly gifted to the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, the design concept for his most monumental work. A 2,715-square-foot stone building with luminous colored glass windows, a totemic wood sculpture and 14 black-and-white marble panels, the work is titled Austin, following the artist’s tradition of naming particular works after the places(...)
Ellsworth Kelly: Austin
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In January 2015, Ellsworth Kelly gifted to the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, the design concept for his most monumental work. A 2,715-square-foot stone building with luminous colored glass windows, a totemic wood sculpture and 14 black-and-white marble panels, the work is titled Austin, following the artist’s tradition of naming particular works after the places for which they are destined. The structure is the only building the artist designed, despite Kelly’s lifelong interest in architecture and architectural form dating back to his earliest window studies made while living in Paris in the 1940s. Envisioned by Kelly as a site for joy and contemplation, Austin is a cornerstone of the Blanton’s permanent collection and a new icon for the city in which it stands. This comprehensive volume from Radius Books provides a thorough look at the project, from its first inception to its current position as one of the artist’s most important and enduring works.
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