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This book closely examines 25 of Eliasson's books dating back to 1997, and reveals a whole oeuvre of artist's books—57 titles in all—that will come as a revelation to those who may not closely identify the artist with this medium. Eliasson's exhibition catalogues are always designed with pronounced care, and many are already long out of print or hard to find. Here, in(...)
Olafur Eliasson: take your time printed
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This book closely examines 25 of Eliasson's books dating back to 1997, and reveals a whole oeuvre of artist's books—57 titles in all—that will come as a revelation to those who may not closely identify the artist with this medium. Eliasson's exhibition catalogues are always designed with pronounced care, and many are already long out of print or hard to find. Here, in spreads and thorough annotations, we encounter his considered musings on book form and design, and the complex process of book collaboration. Printed Matter also supplies a bibliography of all of Eliasson's books to date, alongside an interview with the artist.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Allen Ruppersberg came of age as an artist in late-1960s Los Angeles, where he was part of the burgeoning L.A. Conceptual movement—that unique band of artists that included Bas Jan Ader, Allan McColllum and other. Like these artists and other L.A. Conceptual pioneers such as Ed Ruscha and John Baldessari, Ruppersberg used photographs (both made and found) in combination(...)
Alan Ruppersberg: you and me or the art of give and take
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Allen Ruppersberg came of age as an artist in late-1960s Los Angeles, where he was part of the burgeoning L.A. Conceptual movement—that unique band of artists that included Bas Jan Ader, Allan McColllum and other. Like these artists and other L.A. Conceptual pioneers such as Ed Ruscha and John Baldessari, Ruppersberg used photographs (both made and found) in combination with text and narrative strategies to mingle, blend and upend both fiction and fact—most famously in “Where's Al?” (1972) and “Between the Scenes”(1973).
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Born into the semiotic seductions of the 1980s, Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie reworks the iconography of that decade to foster associations between the most unlikely sources —East European propaganda murals, German abstract painting, Cold War imagery, industrial typefaces and 1980s synth-pop. To embellish this wide-ranging lexicon, she often collaborates with fashion(...)
Lucy Mckenzie : chêne de weekend, 2006-2009
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Born into the semiotic seductions of the 1980s, Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie reworks the iconography of that decade to foster associations between the most unlikely sources —East European propaganda murals, German abstract painting, Cold War imagery, industrial typefaces and 1980s synth-pop. To embellish this wide-ranging lexicon, she often collaborates with fashion designers, musicians and interior designers on works that have been exhibited as theatrical sets at museums in Edinburgh, San Francisco, New York and Cologne, winning her an international following. Chêne De Weekend introduces new paintings that reference nineteenth-century trompe l'oeil paintings used for interior design, part of McKenzie's participation in Atelier, an interior design collective. Alongside reproductions of works, it includes a fictional account of her study of trompe l'oeil and an homage to the fashion designer Beca Lipscombe, one of her collaborators in Atelier.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Gerhard Richter and Hans Ulrich Obrist first met in 1985. Their professional collaborations began seven years later, when the 24-year-old Obrist curated his first Richter exhibition; the following year he published a collection of his writings. Now Gerhard Richter has dedicated an artist's book to this longstanding relationship. The texts in Obrist-O'Brist have been(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
March 2010
Gerhard Richter: Obrist-O'Brist
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Gerhard Richter and Hans Ulrich Obrist first met in 1985. Their professional collaborations began seven years later, when the 24-year-old Obrist curated his first Richter exhibition; the following year he published a collection of his writings. Now Gerhard Richter has dedicated an artist's book to this longstanding relationship. The texts in Obrist-O'Brist have been produced by rearranging Obrist's interviews using a random generator, setting the results in blocks without discrete passages or paragraphs. The color plates are made up of photographs—both portraits and mementos—of Hans Ulrich Obrist, from the past 15 years, and photos of Richter's own paintings, which Richter has then painted over using brushes and scrapers. Chiming with many currents in contemporary writing and bookmaking, Obrist-O'Brist is an adventure from cover to cover; it even has two different sleeves, and can be approached from either end (as frequent upside-down pages indicate).
Contemporary Art Monographs
Yoko Ono: the other rooms
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The Other Rooms is a sequel to Yoko Ono's Grapefruit, a now classic artist's book that was first published in 1964 and became a cult classic following its wider distribution after 1970. Matching the satisfyingly compact size of Grapefruit, and beautifully bound in white cloth, The Other Rooms is conceived as a series of rooms that unfold the story of, in the words of the(...)
Yoko Ono: the other rooms
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The Other Rooms is a sequel to Yoko Ono's Grapefruit, a now classic artist's book that was first published in 1964 and became a cult classic following its wider distribution after 1970. Matching the satisfyingly compact size of Grapefruit, and beautifully bound in white cloth, The Other Rooms is conceived as a series of rooms that unfold the story of, in the words of the artist, “the life of a woman seeing through the eyes of her son.” On page after page, or room after room, Ono walks the reader through her unique expression of motherly utopian pedagogy, providing observations and instruction “pieces” such as the following, for “Balance Piece”: a) Politicians should wear pink transparent loose robes or pajama-like outfits without the bottoms at all times. b) A priest should wear a bright red suit with one sleeve and bell-bottom pants with his penis exposed at all times. c) The army should wear drag (cocktail party-type flair skirts) and high-heel shoes with jewelry (earrings, etc.) Other sequences simply describe imaginary rooms, and invite the reader to inhabit them, or suggest new approaches to tasks such as gardening, or to one's hometown, all in the serenely open style for which Ono is so famed. The Other Rooms is joyfully interactive in this sense, finding ways “to open doors… where there are no doors.”
Contemporary Art Monographs
John Baldessari: Brick Bldg, Lg Windows W/Xlent Views, Partially Furnished, Renowned Architect
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Commissioned to produce an installation for Mies van der Rohe's Museum Haus Lange, John Baldessari decided to “rub the building up the wrong way” with humorous interventions.
John Baldessari: Brick Bldg, Lg Windows W/Xlent Views, Partially Furnished, Renowned Architect
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Commissioned to produce an installation for Mies van der Rohe's Museum Haus Lange, John Baldessari decided to “rub the building up the wrong way” with humorous interventions.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Berlin artist Susanne Pomrehn collects photographs on specific themes, taking them from personal and public archives and the Internet as well as producing her own. Modifying these images via cropping, rotation and folding, she uses the results to construct delicate photographic paper objects, which in turn become installations, accumulating fresh associations in their(...)
Susanne Pomren: Kollektive formation
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Berlin artist Susanne Pomrehn collects photographs on specific themes, taking them from personal and public archives and the Internet as well as producing her own. Modifying these images via cropping, rotation and folding, she uses the results to construct delicate photographic paper objects, which in turn become installations, accumulating fresh associations in their dimensionality.
Contemporary Art Monographs
David Noonan: scenes
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London-based Australian artist David Noonan works with found photographic imagery taken from performance manuals, textile patterns and archive photographs to make densely layered montages. These works at once suggest specific moments in time and invoke disorientating atemporal spaces from which myriad narratives emerge.
David Noonan: scenes
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London-based Australian artist David Noonan works with found photographic imagery taken from performance manuals, textile patterns and archive photographs to make densely layered montages. These works at once suggest specific moments in time and invoke disorientating atemporal spaces from which myriad narratives emerge.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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As a companion piece to Jacob's exhibition at Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, this artist's book features two related projects: an exhibition of remade Rokthos from the Panza Collection—uncannily replicated and reconfigured four times—and a special re-hanging of works from the Museum's permanent collection, in the manner of works from Jacob's Album series.
Luis Jacob: Seven pictures of nothing repeated four times, in gratitude
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As a companion piece to Jacob's exhibition at Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, this artist's book features two related projects: an exhibition of remade Rokthos from the Panza Collection—uncannily replicated and reconfigured four times—and a special re-hanging of works from the Museum's permanent collection, in the manner of works from Jacob's Album series.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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A homage to Richard Prince's many classic publications, Jonathan Monk's new book reveals that the artist, customarily regarded as a classic instance of the “post-studio” practitioner, working from a small desk, a computer and a cell phone, actually has a traditional physical space, documented here, Prince-style, with loving attention to his working props.
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A homage to Richard Prince's many classic publications, Jonathan Monk's new book reveals that the artist, customarily regarded as a classic instance of the “post-studio” practitioner, working from a small desk, a computer and a cell phone, actually has a traditional physical space, documented here, Prince-style, with loving attention to his working props.
Contemporary Art Monographs