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Robert Smithson (1938–1973), an artist of paramount importance in postwar America, created radical new perspectives for landscape architecture, photography, art criticism, and site-specific installation. His Spiral Jetty - a 1,500-foot-long coil of rock built in 1970 at the edge of the Great Salt Lake - is widely appreciated as one of the most significant art projects of(...)
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April 2004, New Haven / London
Mirror-Travels : Robert Smithson and history
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Robert Smithson (1938–1973), an artist of paramount importance in postwar America, created radical new perspectives for landscape architecture, photography, art criticism, and site-specific installation. His Spiral Jetty - a 1,500-foot-long coil of rock built in 1970 at the edge of the Great Salt Lake - is widely appreciated as one of the most significant art projects of the twentieth century. Less well known is the connection between the Jetty and the nearby Golden Spike National Historic Site, location of the completion of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad. The link between these two monuments is but one facet of an entire complex of historical reference and reflection that structures Smithson’s work. Mirror-Travels encompasses the full span of Smithson’s career, offering a close analysis of the artist’s working model of history and featuring comprehensive case studies of three of his most influential works: The Monuments of Passaic, Incidents of Mirror-Travel in the Yucatan, and the Spiral Jetty. Incorporating abundant new material from Smithson’s personal papers and library, Jennifer Roberts offers surprising new interpretations about the artist and his responses to the social, ideological, and material contradictions of his time.
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Theo Van Doesburg
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A la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale, les avant-gardes européennes sont porteuses d'une volonté de changement et d'un espoir d'avenir meilleur. Plus que tout autre, Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931) participe à cet effort de reconstruction en élargissant l'esthétique néo-plastique de Piet Mondrian à toutes les disciplines : peinture, sculpture, architecture et arts(...)
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A la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale, les avant-gardes européennes sont porteuses d'une volonté de changement et d'un espoir d'avenir meilleur. Plus que tout autre, Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931) participe à cet effort de reconstruction en élargissant l'esthétique néo-plastique de Piet Mondrian à toutes les disciplines : peinture, sculpture, architecture et arts appliqués. Theo van Doesburg propose une véritable révolution, qui vise à transformer le monde de chaque individu, à créer une nouvelle expression de l'art, qui soit en interaction avec la complexité de la vie et avec l'évolution des sciences et des techniques. Sa démarche en constante évolution convoque des mouvances a priori incompatibles comme le dadaïsme et le néoplasticisme et tend à promouvoir l'innovation, ce qu'atteste son évolution vers l'élémentarisme, puis vers l'Art Concret. Pour défendre son projet à un niveau international, Van Doesburg, également fondateur du mouvement et de la revue De Stijl, a su fédérer tous les artistes qui comptaient. Il est reconnu autant pour ses réalisations plastiques que pour sa façon d'accomplir un idéal philosophique, artistique et collectif. La notoriété internationale de nombreux artistes, dont celle de Mondrian, en bénéficiera largement.
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Eliezer (Lazar) Markovitch Lissitzky (Pochinok, près de Smolensk, Russie, 1890 – Moscou, 1941), dit El Lissitzky, est l’un des artistes les plus influents, les plus novateurs et les plus controversés du début du XXe siècle. Peintre, designer, architecte et photographe prolifique, il a travaillé avec l’avant-garde soviétique et européenne des années 1920 et participé(...)
El Lissitzky : l'expérience de la totalité
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Eliezer (Lazar) Markovitch Lissitzky (Pochinok, près de Smolensk, Russie, 1890 – Moscou, 1941), dit El Lissitzky, est l’un des artistes les plus influents, les plus novateurs et les plus controversés du début du XXe siècle. Peintre, designer, architecte et photographe prolifique, il a travaillé avec l’avant-garde soviétique et européenne des années 1920 et participé activement à l’art propagandiste stalinien des années 1930. L’une des spécificités majeures de son œuvre comme de sa vie est le « franchissement des limites » : il a rapproché les pays et les cultures, l’art et le design, l’Est et l’Ouest. Après 1917, pendant la période du communisme de guerre, il vit à l'étranger où il fait office d'ambassadeur culturel, promouvant l'art russe et les idées soviétiques à l'Ouest tout en s'informant sur la culture occidentale. Pour lui, l’art ne doit pas être considéré comme le fruit d’une expression personnelle ou comme une production d’objets, mais comme une activité sociale et collective. Avec Kazimir Malevitch, il développe un nouveau langage visuel – le suprématisme révolutionnaire – employé non seulement en peinture, mais aussi en arts graphiques et en gravure, en architecture et en théâtre, en céramique, dans les théories de l’éducation et dans les écrits révolutionnaires.
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Aernout Mik
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Dutch artist Aernout Mik's moving-image installations meld filmmaking, sculpture and architecture into experiences that are at once compelling and unsettling, irrational yet plausible. The artist designs and constructs architectural spaces that hold his moving images, making the viewer's physical relationship to the piece a critical component of the overall experience. By(...)
Aernout Mik
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Dutch artist Aernout Mik's moving-image installations meld filmmaking, sculpture and architecture into experiences that are at once compelling and unsettling, irrational yet plausible. The artist designs and constructs architectural spaces that hold his moving images, making the viewer's physical relationship to the piece a critical component of the overall experience. By interrogating the most basic ideas of narrative and reality and rejecting classical cinematic ideals, Mik creates works that are rich in allusion but subversive of codes. Published to accompany the artist's first U.S. retrospective, this volume is a vivid exploration of Mik's work and process. Laurence Kardish, MoMA's Senior Curator in the Department of Film, situates Mik within the history of documentary and nonnarrative cinema, while Michael Taussig, Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, investigates the ways in which the artist's work changes the way we see reality while simultaneously reinforcing the norms of visual culture. Abundantly illustrated with stills and the artist's own drawings, the book also features detailed descriptions of the installations, an exhibition history and a bibliography, making it the most comprehensive volume on the artist available in English.
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Antony Gormley Blind light
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Over the past 25 years, Antony Gormley, perhaps Britain's best-known living sculptor, has revitalized the human image in sculpture. He won the 1994 Turner Prize and has had solo exhibitions at the Whitechapel, Tate, and Hayward galleries, White Cube and The British Museum, and internationally at the Corcoran Gallery, Documenta and the Venice Biennale. His radical(...)
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June 2007, London
Antony Gormley Blind light
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Over the past 25 years, Antony Gormley, perhaps Britain's best-known living sculptor, has revitalized the human image in sculpture. He won the 1994 Turner Prize and has had solo exhibitions at the Whitechapel, Tate, and Hayward galleries, White Cube and The British Museum, and internationally at the Corcoran Gallery, Documenta and the Venice Biennale. His radical investigations of the body as a place of memory and transformation use his own corpus as subject, tool and material. Conflating figure and ground, inside and outside, the physical and the psychological, Gormley explores complex relationships between the city, its architecture and its people. This richly illustrated catalogue is filled with new, never-before-seen sculptural works--a series of figures in light-infused webs of steel, and the monumental steel-block "Space Station," 20 feet high. Photographer Gautier Deblonde also chronicles a major new public project, "Event Horizon," which sites some 30 sculptures on buildings across central London, dramatically altering the city skyline. An in-depth interview with Gormley explores the development of his new work, as well as his relationship to the artists who have inspired him and to his contemporaries in the field of figurative sculpture.
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Architectones, a monumental undertaking of seven exhibitions installed across three continents over a two year period, unites Veilhan's diverse interests in modernity, its histories of technology, and its cult of genius figures. Collectively titled after Kazimir Malevich's volumetric-spatial models, the art and architectural works partake in the revolutionary idealism of(...)
Xavier Veilhan: Architectones, art in the living environment
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Architectones, a monumental undertaking of seven exhibitions installed across three continents over a two year period, unites Veilhan's diverse interests in modernity, its histories of technology, and its cult of genius figures. Collectively titled after Kazimir Malevich's volumetric-spatial models, the art and architectural works partake in the revolutionary idealism of a period in which it was possible to imagine transforming society from the ground up by way of a new form of building. Between 2012 and 2014, Veilhan used music, light, and sculpture to activate Richard Neutra's VDL Research House in Silver Lake, Pierre Koenig's Case Study House No. 21 in the Hollywood Hills, and buildings designed by Le Corbusier and Mies Van Der Rohe, among others. The histories and legacies of the architects themselves played a prominent role in these installations, with figural sculptures and die-cut silhouettes of the looming personalities of the architects populating his installations. Architectones: Art in the Living Environment tells both a story of present and past, archiving exhibition photography as well as anecdotal and historical documents of many of the greatest domestic and private spaces of modern architecture.
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Perhaps most well known for the iconic sculpture "Cadillac Ranch" and performances like "Media Burn", the radical architecture and media art group Ant Farm created an abundance of works across disciplines — including video, publications, built environments, and performance. Less known are the group’s “time capsule” works made throughout their career, which rejected the(...)
March 2017
The present is the form of all life: the time capsules of Ant Farm and LST
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Perhaps most well known for the iconic sculpture "Cadillac Ranch" and performances like "Media Burn", the radical architecture and media art group Ant Farm created an abundance of works across disciplines — including video, publications, built environments, and performance. Less known are the group’s “time capsule” works made throughout their career, which rejected the idea of the time capsule as a reliable means of cultural preservation. Published as a supplement to the exhibition "The Present Is the Form of All Life: The Time Capsules of Ant Farm and LST", this book features essays, an interview with LST, and many never before published or reproduced images of archival material, tracing the time capsule works of Ant Farm and successor group LST from analog archive to digital database.
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This richly illustrated monograph looks at André Volten's stylistic development by examining a large number of works from his sculptural output. The writers also consider Volten's significance to sculpture in the Netherlands and on the international art scene, as well as(...)
September 2000, Rotterdam
André Volten : sculpture in private space/sculpture in public space
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This richly illustrated monograph looks at André Volten's stylistic development by examining a large number of works from his sculptural output. The writers also consider Volten's significance to sculpture in the Netherlands and on the international art scene, as well as discussing his development of the Constructivist aesthetic. Since the 1950s, André Volten (b. 1925) has made an exceptional contribution to sculpture in public space, and examples of his prolific output can be seen in the Netherlands and beyond. He has also been an important protagonist in the debate about the need for art within the public domain. The integration of architecture and visual art, as seen in Volten's work, demonstrates how these two disciplines can complement and invigorate each other.
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September 2000, Rotterdam
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In the 15th century the ideas of the great Renaissance artists required the attentions of engineers and artisans to construct and explain the dynamics of their ambitious works. Leonardo da Vinci's helicopter was built in a studio; very probably his submarine was also built. Today that endeavour and enquiry is represented by Mike Smith, whose studio in the Old Kent Road in(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
January 1900, London
Making art work : the Mike Smith Studio
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In the 15th century the ideas of the great Renaissance artists required the attentions of engineers and artisans to construct and explain the dynamics of their ambitious works. Leonardo da Vinci's helicopter was built in a studio; very probably his submarine was also built. Today that endeavour and enquiry is represented by Mike Smith, whose studio in the Old Kent Road in London furnishes the architecture for the most pressing installations and sculptures of young British artists. He is the carborundum that enables the best artists working in Britain today to realize their work - Rachel Whiteread's monument in Trafalgar Square is a testament to his work. The painter Patsy Craig has unravelled the activities of the Mike Smith Studios, including the symbiosis of the studio with the process of creation of such artists as Damien Hirst, Mona Hatoum, Keith Tyson, Darren Almond and Mark Wallinger. She has collected from the Studio's archives, along with the detritus, the correspondence, notes, ideas, failures and successes of these and other artists at the studio. They are a diary and vade mecum of the construction of a significant theory in current British art. It is an assembly of the very templates of the thinking, design and creation of art in Britain today.
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Atelier Van Lieshout
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When Joep van Lieshout (b. 1963) founded the art and architecture studio that bears his name, he set in motion what has been described as "a new Dutch architectural style dirty, delicious and direct." Now Atelier Van Lieshout is 10, and the first major monograph devoted to it, A Manual (1997), has been sold out for years. This new overview brings readers into AVL's(...)
Atelier Van Lieshout
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When Joep van Lieshout (b. 1963) founded the art and architecture studio that bears his name, he set in motion what has been described as "a new Dutch architectural style dirty, delicious and direct." Now Atelier Van Lieshout is 10, and the first major monograph devoted to it, A Manual (1997), has been sold out for years. This new overview brings readers into AVL's contrarian applied art via luxuriously appointed "mobile homes," autonomous communes and surreal art projects, with equal time given to AVL-Ville (2001), a "free state" in Rotterdam's port, complete with its own flag, its own constitution and its own currency, and the revealing minutia of AVL's portfolio, from furniture to the "Bar Rectum," a perverse take on the Oscar-Meyer Weiner Mobile. The idea of art that can be used for a self-sufficient and independent lifestyle hits a uniquely high point in AVL-Ville, a culmination of all the work AVL has done before. And it lives on: After a successful and tumultuous year of work, AVL has recently located its first AVL-Ville export product in Park Middelheim in Antwerp: the AVL Franchise Unit. This richly illustrated survey tracks AVL's serious and often provocative portfolio through a crucial period in its growth and development.
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