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This publication presents the first comprehensive overview of the German collaborative Fischer/El Sani. Nine of their most important films, installations and photographic works are featured, all of which emphasize the duo's ongoing commitment to dismantling and re-appropriating Modernist architecture. Included are texts by, among others, critics Boris Groys and Jennifer Allen.
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February 2008, Berlin
Nina Fischer & Maroan el sani: blind spots
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This publication presents the first comprehensive overview of the German collaborative Fischer/El Sani. Nine of their most important films, installations and photographic works are featured, all of which emphasize the duo's ongoing commitment to dismantling and re-appropriating Modernist architecture. Included are texts by, among others, critics Boris Groys and Jennifer Allen.
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Clay Ketter
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sweedish Exhibition catalogue, Moderna museet, Stockolm, may to august 2009. Combining consistency and innovation, Ketter has continued to produce works at the junctures of architecture, sculpture and painting. The variation between media, including painting, photography and sculpture, establishes layers of complexity but the terse composition of his works are always(...)
Clay Ketter
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sweedish Exhibition catalogue, Moderna museet, Stockolm, may to august 2009. Combining consistency and innovation, Ketter has continued to produce works at the junctures of architecture, sculpture and painting. The variation between media, including painting, photography and sculpture, establishes layers of complexity but the terse composition of his works are always visually arresting.
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Nahum Tevet
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Nahum Tevet's creations form a sort of obsessional architecture, based on simple forms and elementary relations yet arranged in a way that transforms them into a complicated spatial whole. The exhibition held at MACRO will feature the works Untitled 1995-96 from Stockholm and Take Two 2005 from FRAC Bretagne, in France.
Nahum Tevet
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Nahum Tevet's creations form a sort of obsessional architecture, based on simple forms and elementary relations yet arranged in a way that transforms them into a complicated spatial whole. The exhibition held at MACRO will feature the works Untitled 1995-96 from Stockholm and Take Two 2005 from FRAC Bretagne, in France.
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Celebration at persepolis
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In 1971, the Shah of Iran held a week-long party among the ruins of Persepolis, leaving the temporary architecture behind when the celebration was done. For Art Basel 2008, "anthropologist of the avant-garde" Michael Stevenson reconstructed one of the guest tents, now a ruin itself, at scale. That project is expanded upon here.
Celebration at persepolis
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In 1971, the Shah of Iran held a week-long party among the ruins of Persepolis, leaving the temporary architecture behind when the celebration was done. For Art Basel 2008, "anthropologist of the avant-garde" Michael Stevenson reconstructed one of the guest tents, now a ruin itself, at scale. That project is expanded upon here.
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The American artist Sarah Morris talks with the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist about her films and paintings, which explore buildings, cities and structures and centers of power. The focus of the conversation is her longtime interest in urban developments, architecture and architects like Philip Johnson, Mies van der Rohe, Robert Venturi and many others.
An open system meets an open system. Sarah Morris and Hans Ulrich Obrist in Coversation
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The American artist Sarah Morris talks with the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist about her films and paintings, which explore buildings, cities and structures and centers of power. The focus of the conversation is her longtime interest in urban developments, architecture and architects like Philip Johnson, Mies van der Rohe, Robert Venturi and many others.
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This book is the first extended study of the life and work of German-born Venezuelan artist Gertrude Goldschmidt (1912–94), known as Gego. In locating the artist’s contribution to postwar art and her important place in the global conversations around modernity, Mónica Amor explores her intermedial practice as a model of cultural complexity at the ''edge of modernity.'' In(...)
Gego: Weaving the space between
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This book is the first extended study of the life and work of German-born Venezuelan artist Gertrude Goldschmidt (1912–94), known as Gego. In locating the artist’s contribution to postwar art and her important place in the global conversations around modernity, Mónica Amor explores her intermedial practice as a model of cultural complexity at the ''edge of modernity.'' In situating Gego’s work alongside other local archives and against her European education and global reception, Amor offers a monographic model that complicates traditional approaches to history. She investigates the full range of Gego’s work, including her furniture workshop, her teaching at schools of architecture and design, her seminal reticuláreas, and her lesser-known prints. Through rigorous archival research, formal analysis, theoretical relevance, and deep exploration of historical context, this essential book unpacks Gego’s radical recasting of the modern sculptural project through her engagement with architecture, craft, and design pedagogy.
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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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Adrian Schiess is a young Swiss artist who approaches new artistic terrain in an entirely unprejudiced fashion. His work continues along the lines of the great history of 20th century abstract painting. In addition, Adrian Schiess' special relationship to architecture has resulted in collaboration with the two internationally renowned architectural firms Herzog & de(...)
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January 1900, Luzern
Adrian Schiess - Colourspaces : co-operation with the architects Herzog & de Meuron and Gigon/Guyer 1993-2003
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Adrian Schiess is a young Swiss artist who approaches new artistic terrain in an entirely unprejudiced fashion. His work continues along the lines of the great history of 20th century abstract painting. In addition, Adrian Schiess' special relationship to architecture has resulted in collaboration with the two internationally renowned architectural firms Herzog & de Meuron, Basel, and Gigon/Guyer, Zurich.
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This first comprehensive publication on the influential contemporary artist focuses on the experimental nature of Andrea Zittel's signature objects, inhabitable sculptures, and other projects. In her work as an artist, Zittel investigates domestic and urban life in Western societies. Exploring the various aspects of living, the artist designs her own household settings to(...)
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October 2005, München, Berlin, London, New York
Andrea Zittel : critical space
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This first comprehensive publication on the influential contemporary artist focuses on the experimental nature of Andrea Zittel's signature objects, inhabitable sculptures, and other projects. In her work as an artist, Zittel investigates domestic and urban life in Western societies. Exploring the various aspects of living, the artist designs her own household settings to serve as a test case for her experimental living structures. Her work has provoked debates about the changed meaning of domestic and collective space and the possibilities for new adaptations to urban conditions today. "Andrea Zittel: critical space" includes nearly two hundred reproductions of Zittel's works of art, many of which are published here for the first time. The book includes over one hundred sculptures and drawings, documentation of early work, and recent site-specific work in the Mojave desert of California. With essays that touch upon urbanism, architecture, design, and consumer culture, this catalog offers an extensive analysis of Zittel's contribution to contemporary trends in art and architecture.
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Despite his tragically short career, the influence of Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) is ever more pervasive. Central to the explosion of creativity in New York's SoHo in the 1970s, Matta-Clark turned his focus on the city itself, slicing through abandoned buildings to create works that were at once large-scale sculptural environments, social commentary and urban(...)
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January 1900, Tucson
Gordon Matta-Clark : the space between
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Despite his tragically short career, the influence of Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) is ever more pervasive. Central to the explosion of creativity in New York's SoHo in the 1970s, Matta-Clark turned his focus on the city itself, slicing through abandoned buildings to create works that were at once large-scale sculptural environments, social commentary and urban performance pieces. His aim was to unravel the grammar of architecture and "turn a building into a state of mind". The 'building cuts' remain Matta-Clark’s best-known works, although today they exist only through film and photographic documentation. Armed with a movie camera, he explored the hidden spaces beneath Paris and London. He handed out free food and 'fresh air' on the streets, created architecture from refuse, and planned visionary architectural projects. His engagement with the urban landscape also led him to set up an artist-run restaurant, Food. This elegant produced book complements an exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow and the Architectural Association, London.
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