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Audio CD, 24:43 Minutes. Originally released by Mass Art in 1966, the record never saw thorough distribution as the publisher went bankrupt shortly after its release. Later, in 1968, How to Make a Happening was distributed on a limited basis through Something Else Press—A laminated and silk-screened cover by Alison Knowles distinguished this edition from its(...)
Allan Kaprow: how to make a happening
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Audio CD, 24:43 Minutes. Originally released by Mass Art in 1966, the record never saw thorough distribution as the publisher went bankrupt shortly after its release. Later, in 1968, How to Make a Happening was distributed on a limited basis through Something Else Press—A laminated and silk-screened cover by Alison Knowles distinguished this edition from its predecessor. Simple in construction, yet profound in context, How to Make a Happening is Allan Kaprow delivering 11 rules on how, and how not, to make a Happening, a movement begun by Kaprow in the late fifties that is known for its unpredictability, open scores, and constantly-evolving form.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Miriam Sturzenegger se penche d’une manière presque existentielle sur la nature et la perception du dessin. Der Nebel ist ein helles Dunkel/The Fog is a Light Darkness focalise l’échange et la fusion entre le papier et les parois qui constituent ses installations. Le livre nous permet un accès sculptural aux dessins comme à une pensée qui surgit du matériau. Dans les(...)
Miriam Sturzenegger : the fog is a light darkness
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Miriam Sturzenegger se penche d’une manière presque existentielle sur la nature et la perception du dessin. Der Nebel ist ein helles Dunkel/The Fog is a Light Darkness focalise l’échange et la fusion entre le papier et les parois qui constituent ses installations. Le livre nous permet un accès sculptural aux dessins comme à une pensée qui surgit du matériau. Dans les méandres d’un parcours des installations aux dessins dans les carnets, nous cherchons à trouver des repères dans les zones fragiles entre le vide, les traces et la figuration.
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Isaac Cordal is a sculpture artist from London whose sculptures take the form of "little people" sculpted from concrete and placed in "real" situations. Cordal manages to capture much emotion in his vignettes, in spite of the little people's lack of detail or color. He is sympathetic toward his little people and we empathize with their situations, their leisure time,(...)
Isaac Cordal : cement eclipses, small interventions in the big city
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Isaac Cordal is a sculpture artist from London whose sculptures take the form of "little people" sculpted from concrete and placed in "real" situations. Cordal manages to capture much emotion in his vignettes, in spite of the little people's lack of detail or color. He is sympathetic toward his little people and we empathize with their situations, their leisure time, their waiting for buses and their more tragic moments such as accidental death, suicide or family funerals. His sculptures can be found in gutters, on top of buildings, on top of bus shelters - and in many other unusual and unlikely places.
Italy of the Cities
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A veritable film on paper, this catalog has been designed to re-create this innovative installation. At the Shanghai World Expo 2010, 30 000 visitors walked through an experiment in ‘architectural cinema’ that magically transported the audience to countless Italian towns in only a few minutes. This catalog has been designed to recreate in its pages the installation's(...)
Italy of the Cities
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A veritable film on paper, this catalog has been designed to re-create this innovative installation. At the Shanghai World Expo 2010, 30 000 visitors walked through an experiment in ‘architectural cinema’ that magically transported the audience to countless Italian towns in only a few minutes. This catalog has been designed to recreate in its pages the installation's composite structure. The reader is encouraged to take part in this pleasure trip along the book's pages, amongst signs and colours, words and images, yielding in to curiosity and a visual feast as well as to a refined narration.
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Après avoir détruit sa maison-oeuvre-laboratoire en céramique blanche de Garches, Jean-Pierre Raynaud a exposé au CAPC-musée d’Art contemporain de Bordeaux les gravats, telles des reliques, dans des poubelles métalliques en usage dans les blocs opératoires. Pour lui, en effet, l’oeuvre d’art est un but et son unique raison d’être. « Le but n’est pas de faire des oeuvres(...)
La maison de Jean-Pierre Raynaud contruction destruction 1969-1993
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Après avoir détruit sa maison-oeuvre-laboratoire en céramique blanche de Garches, Jean-Pierre Raynaud a exposé au CAPC-musée d’Art contemporain de Bordeaux les gravats, telles des reliques, dans des poubelles métalliques en usage dans les blocs opératoires. Pour lui, en effet, l’oeuvre d’art est un but et son unique raison d’être. « Le but n’est pas de faire des oeuvres d’art, il est de vivre l’oeuvre d’art comme un but ». « En 23 ans, la maison a connu cinq stades successifs. Et je tenais beaucoup à en assurer moi-même les métamorphoses. Quand j’ai pris conscience, en 1988, qu’elle était réellement terminée, cela a été un choc terrible, comme l’aboutissement d’une recherche, la fin d’une vie. Je n’ai pas voulu accepter que ma relation avec elle prenne fin, aussi, durant quatre ans, j’ai réfléchi sur le sens de cette « oeuvre » qui m’échouait comme si je devais en être le gardien jusqu’à ma mort. J’ai réalisé qu’étant unique elle méritait plus d’audace et d’égard que cette architecture parfaite, figée qu’elle était devenue, ce qui est le propre des objets d’art, il me fallait lui faire subir un sort exceptionnel, digne d’elle. Je décidai de la métamorphoser, de l’emporter ailleurs, de lui faire vivre une expérience absolue. Pour cela, elle devait se soumettre à une ultime transformation : la démolition ». Jean-Pierre Raynaud, 1993. Le livre retrace l'histoire de la maison, de sa construction à sa destruction. Il est accompagné du film de Michelle Porte (33 min).
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Gerhard Richter: atlas
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This publication maps the ideas, processes, life and times of one of the most important painters of our time. Conceived and closely edited by Gerhard Richter himself, Atlas cuts straight to the heart of the artist's thinking, collecting more than 5,000 photographs, drawings and sketches that he has compiled or created since the moment of his creative breakthrough in 1962.(...)
Gerhard Richter: atlas
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This publication maps the ideas, processes, life and times of one of the most important painters of our time. Conceived and closely edited by Gerhard Richter himself, Atlas cuts straight to the heart of the artist's thinking, collecting more than 5,000 photographs, drawings and sketches that he has compiled or created since the moment of his creative breakthrough in 1962. Year by year, the images closely parallel the subjects of Richter's paintings, revealing the orderly but open-ended analysis that has been so central to his art. Offering invaluable insight into Richter's working process, this encyclopedic new edition, which completely revises and updates the rare, out-of-print 1997 edition and includes 147 additional plates, features 780 multi-image panels, each reproduced full page and in full color. Richter redefined the terms of contemporary painting as he looked to photography for a way to release painting from the political and symbolic burdens of Socialist Realism and Abstract Expressionism. From pictures of family and friends to images from the mass media, Richter's photographs - sometimes found, sometimes original - have provided the basis for many of his paintings, often re-emerging in a luminous, monochromatic palette, and falling ambiguously between documentary and historical painting.
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Tauba Auerbach : folds
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In connection with Tauba Auerbach’s exhibition “Tetrachromat” at Bergen Kunsthall, Folds presents Auerbach’s eponymous painting series for the first time in book form. In these paintings Auerbach twists and folds the canvas before applying the paint. In its stretched form the flat canvas conjures a trompe l’oeil rendering of its previous three-dimensional state.(...)
Tauba Auerbach : folds
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In connection with Tauba Auerbach’s exhibition “Tetrachromat” at Bergen Kunsthall, Folds presents Auerbach’s eponymous painting series for the first time in book form. In these paintings Auerbach twists and folds the canvas before applying the paint. In its stretched form the flat canvas conjures a trompe l’oeil rendering of its previous three-dimensional state. Transferred to the medium of the book, the paintings are presented here in a new and unexpected way alongside mathematical diagrams and three texts.
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Lux umbrae se compose d'une série d'oeuvres nourries de lumière, qui ont été conçues et réalisées pour les espaces du Musée archéologique de Santa Maria della Scala. Des faisceaux lumineux projetés sur les murs dessinent des formes, sortes de sculpture s'élevant jusqu'au plafond et transfigurant l'architecture des lieux. L'oeuvre de Mecarelli naît de la confrontation(...)
Adalberto Mecarelli: Lux umbrae
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Lux umbrae se compose d'une série d'oeuvres nourries de lumière, qui ont été conçues et réalisées pour les espaces du Musée archéologique de Santa Maria della Scala. Des faisceaux lumineux projetés sur les murs dessinent des formes, sortes de sculpture s'élevant jusqu'au plafond et transfigurant l'architecture des lieux. L'oeuvre de Mecarelli naît de la confrontation entre présence et absence, visible et invisible, lumière et ombre.
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James Turrell
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This Gagosian Gallery catalog of James Turrell’s recent exhibition with the London gallery features installations, light works, sculptures, and prints by the artist. For more than forty-five years, Turrell has explored the myriad possibilities of using light as a medium of perception. His formally simple works draw attention to the limits of seeing, while seeking to(...)
James Turrell
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This Gagosian Gallery catalog of James Turrell’s recent exhibition with the London gallery features installations, light works, sculptures, and prints by the artist. For more than forty-five years, Turrell has explored the myriad possibilities of using light as a medium of perception. His formally simple works draw attention to the limits of seeing, while seeking to expand the wordless thought that they provoke. Throughout these permutations, the light that is normally used to illuminate other objects is assigned form and structure, making it the subject of the revelation. He continues to use light as his primary subject and material, with its inherent allusions to painting and sculpture.
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Les Frères Chapuisat
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la rétrospective, sur 500 pages, des installations réalisées entre 2003 et 2011, aux confins de la sculpture monumentale et de la micro-architecture. Publié suite à l'exposition au Centre culturel suisse, Paris, de septembre à décembre 2011. Gregory et Cyril Chapuisat (nés respectivement en 1972 à New York et en 1976 à Bienne, vivent et travaillent « in situ »)(...)
Les Frères Chapuisat
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la rétrospective, sur 500 pages, des installations réalisées entre 2003 et 2011, aux confins de la sculpture monumentale et de la micro-architecture. Publié suite à l'exposition au Centre culturel suisse, Paris, de septembre à décembre 2011. Gregory et Cyril Chapuisat (nés respectivement en 1972 à New York et en 1976 à Bienne, vivent et travaillent « in situ ») réalisent des œuvres aux confins de la sculpture monumentale et de la micro-architecture. Leurs installations, construites avec une méthode inventée pour chaque cas, sont le plus souvent spécifiques à un lieu, et donc éphémères. Elles évoquent des rêves, des peurs ou des expériences de l'enfance, et affirment une convergence entre l'art et la vie. Les phases de création et de réalisation prennent corps en de longues périodes de travail collectif, pendant lesquels les artistes vivent parfois dans leurs œuvres.
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