Dizionario Vol.1
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Italian artist Luca Massaro has been building a solid body of work on ‘the invisible space that separates an image from its caption, photographs from words, in their different forms of production, translation and transmission’. Through an eclectic array of photographs, words, sculptures, installations and artists books, concocted with advertising techniques of(...)
Dizionario Vol.1
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Italian artist Luca Massaro has been building a solid body of work on ‘the invisible space that separates an image from its caption, photographs from words, in their different forms of production, translation and transmission’. Through an eclectic array of photographs, words, sculptures, installations and artists books, concocted with advertising techniques of manipulation, borrowed from the urban and online accelerated mediascape, such as the proliferation of backlit devices, the repetition of graphic logos and leitmotifs, his work plays with the conflicting hybridization of iconotexts today. Dizionario is a long-term project: every ten years the artist will publish a volume that assembles around 1000 new images accumulated in the previous decade from his personal archive. This verbo-visual archive, a collision of signs, layers and transparencies, which creates abstract images out of language, is used as a matrix for the fabrication of new works with various materials. For Volume 1, these images-words have been shot in the public space and mostly, yet not exclusively, in the urban landscape, since 2012 in Europe, Japan, Mexico and North America.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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"Trespassing: houses x artists" breaks through the conceptual boundaries that have historically divided art and architecture to describe new strategies of conceiving private space. In their individual collaborations with architects Alan Koch and Linda Taalman of OpenOffice, nine contemporary artists radically reinvent how domestic space is created and inhabited. The(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
January 1900, Ostfildern-Ruit
Trespassing : houses x artists
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"Trespassing: houses x artists" breaks through the conceptual boundaries that have historically divided art and architecture to describe new strategies of conceiving private space. In their individual collaborations with architects Alan Koch and Linda Taalman of OpenOffice, nine contemporary artists radically reinvent how domestic space is created and inhabited. The resulting works are open-ended, representing a new approach to visualizing form rather than a final product or conceptual destination. Includes work by: T. Kelly Mason, David Reed, Peter Noever, Renee Petropoulos, Julian Opie, Jessica Stockholder, Jim Isermann, Chris Burden, Barbara Bloom, Kevin Appel amongst others.
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Gordon Matta-Clark
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Born in New York and trained in architecture, Gordon Matta-Clark is most famous for his slicing through façades, walls and floors of derelict buildings. This ‘deconstructing’ gesture, provocative and extreme, turns architecture into astonishing sculptures, where the mass of the building is entwined with the light and air that penetrate it. Matta-Clark’s interventions are(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
April 2003, London
Gordon Matta-Clark
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Born in New York and trained in architecture, Gordon Matta-Clark is most famous for his slicing through façades, walls and floors of derelict buildings. This ‘deconstructing’ gesture, provocative and extreme, turns architecture into astonishing sculptures, where the mass of the building is entwined with the light and air that penetrate it. Matta-Clark’s interventions are always grounded in social or political convictions. Some of his projects include opening a restaurant (Food, 1971)in the then-neglected district of SoHo in New York, purchasing at auction fractions of unusable urban land in New York (Reality Properties: Fake Estates, 1973), dispensing oxygen to passersby in the streets of New York from a self-made cart (Fresh Air Cart, 1972), and other visionary urban projects that he conceived as a founding member of the New York-based Anarchitecture group. His practice remains one of the most unique, unequalled, and hugely influential of the past decades. A richly documented essay by Professor Thomas Crow presents new perspectives on the work of the artist. Also included are original essays by Judith Russi Kirshner and Christian Kravagna, as well as a ‘Documents’ section composed of key unpublished and hard-to-find essays and interviews, compiled by editor Corinne Diserens.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Ed Ruscha initially gained attention in the early 1960s with paintings, drawings, and photgraphic books that focused on his fascination with the unique culture, vernacular, and sensibility of his adopted home of Los Angeles. Ruscha has been considered a 'West Coast' artist, and although Los Angeles is undeniably the source of inspiration for his art, the themes he(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
September 2003, London
Ed Ruscha
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Ed Ruscha initially gained attention in the early 1960s with paintings, drawings, and photgraphic books that focused on his fascination with the unique culture, vernacular, and sensibility of his adopted home of Los Angeles. Ruscha has been considered a 'West Coast' artist, and although Los Angeles is undeniably the source of inspiration for his art, the themes he addresses are far-reaching and universal. A growing interest in Ruscha's work in recent years has led to major exhibitions that toured the United States, and a number of individual shows in Europe, which re-evaluate his art in the broader scope. This monograph on Ruscha's work looks at the prolific and many-faceted career of an artist whose work has been variously described as pop, conceptual, or surrealist a painter as well as a print-, book-, and filmmaker. The thematic and loosely chronological structure of the book brings to light the diversity and depth of Ruscha's art, while at the same time underlining the continuity and recurrence of themes and ideas within his ever surprising and prolific career.
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Process of transformation
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« La mise en scène du lien de la communication sociale apparaît comme le dénominateur commun aux différentes recherches de Lucy Orta et rend bien compte de son parti pris de transversalité dans l'expression poétique. Elle affronte brillamment depuis 1992 l'important secteur de l'esthétique relationnelle. Le champ privilégié de son action est l'espace de proximité de(...)
Process of transformation
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« La mise en scène du lien de la communication sociale apparaît comme le dénominateur commun aux différentes recherches de Lucy Orta et rend bien compte de son parti pris de transversalité dans l'expression poétique. Elle affronte brillamment depuis 1992 l'important secteur de l'esthétique relationnelle. Le champ privilégié de son action est l'espace de proximité de l'humanité souffrante. Le travail de Lucy Orta combine l'architecture au body-art et au théâtre de rue, la mode à la thérapie sociale, la poésie formelle à l'activisme idéologique. » Pierre Restany.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Catalogue paru lors de l'exposition présentée à la Galerie de l'Uqam, à Montréal, du 18 octobre au 23 novembre 2002.
Alain Paiement : le monde en chantier
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Catalogue paru lors de l'exposition présentée à la Galerie de l'Uqam, à Montréal, du 18 octobre au 23 novembre 2002.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Ce catalogue accompagne l'exposition du Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux. Conçue selon un parcours thématique, l’exposition confronte de nombreux mouvements artistiques de 1968 à 1978 : Ankform, Arte Povera, Land Art, support/surface.
Les années 70 : l'art en cause
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Ce catalogue accompagne l'exposition du Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux. Conçue selon un parcours thématique, l’exposition confronte de nombreux mouvements artistiques de 1968 à 1978 : Ankform, Arte Povera, Land Art, support/surface.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Suzaan Boettger offers the first comprehensive history of the Earthworks movement in the United States, providing a fascinating and in-depth analysis of the monumental forms that initiated the broader genre of Land Art. Examining the art, the artists, their dealers and proponents, Boettger interprets Earthworks as a manifestation both of artists' personal stories and of(...)
Earthworks : art and the landscape of the sixties
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Suzaan Boettger offers the first comprehensive history of the Earthworks movement in the United States, providing a fascinating and in-depth analysis of the monumental forms that initiated the broader genre of Land Art. Examining the art, the artists, their dealers and proponents, Boettger interprets Earthworks as a manifestation both of artists' personal stories and of the late 1960s social and political tumult. Boettger overturns many commonly held notions of Earthworks' origins and intentions. She argues that Robert Smithson's work on the Dallas-Fort Worth airport stimulated his thinking and that his writing about it catalyzed the movement. The visionary environments that followed, often sculpted in expansive and remote western terrains, were idealized by Americans and Europeans alike as displays of cowboy bravado. Boettger identifies earthworkers Michael Heizer, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Morris, Walter de Maria, and Stephen Kaltenbach as former Californians whose treatment of the landscape reflects a western spirit. Her international purview integrates early work by the Europeans Barry Flanagan, Jan Dibbets, Richard Long, and Pino Pascali as precedents and parallels. Her examination of Earthworks' relationship to the ecology movement perceptively corrects a popular misconception about the artists' goals while acknowledging the social and cultural complexities of the period. Insightful discussions of Carl André, Sol LeWitt, and Claes Oldenburg - in addition to the artists mentioned above - are accompanied by many rare and new photographs of both the art and its creators. Witty, accessible, and scrupulously researched, Earthworks constructs day-to-day chronologies of the development of the artistic movement and its intersections with the larger public events of the time, including specific accounts of galleries, exhibitions, and criticism. Boettger's dynamic social history and psychological insights bring new meaning to this pivotal movement that both embodied and disrupted contemporary notions of art, nature, society, and their relationship to each other.
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Colin Rose : edge to edge
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Colin Rose has been working since the mid 70s on sculptural and site specific work. This is the first major publication on Rose, providing an overview of his career so far, from his early conceptual pieces to the most recent commissions in public spaces and sculpture parks across Europe and Australia. Edge to Edge explores the background to Rose’s practice, situating it(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
July 2002, London
Colin Rose : edge to edge
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Colin Rose has been working since the mid 70s on sculptural and site specific work. This is the first major publication on Rose, providing an overview of his career so far, from his early conceptual pieces to the most recent commissions in public spaces and sculpture parks across Europe and Australia. Edge to Edge explores the background to Rose’s practice, situating it within the traditions of land art and site specific public art, but recognising it, as well, as being a markedly individual body of work.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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This monograph focuses on Rodchenko's sculptures, which can be loosely divided into three groups, beginning with abstract works dating from 1918; mobiles; and square timber works from circa 1920. Works are presented through vintage photographs, detailed descriptions, and reconstructions.
Contemporary Art Monographs
August 2002, Ostfildern-Ruit
Rodchenko : spatial constructions
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This monograph focuses on Rodchenko's sculptures, which can be loosely divided into three groups, beginning with abstract works dating from 1918; mobiles; and square timber works from circa 1920. Works are presented through vintage photographs, detailed descriptions, and reconstructions.
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