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What use can we make today of a prints collection dating between the 16th and 19th century housed in a library storage room? What does it tell us of the periods in which it was created, preserved and reorganised? How can this information relate to the contemporary? Can an artist re-enact shared scenarios emphasising what of the old persists in the present? This(...)
Present archives: Reflections from a collection of prints
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What use can we make today of a prints collection dating between the 16th and 19th century housed in a library storage room? What does it tell us of the periods in which it was created, preserved and reorganised? How can this information relate to the contemporary? Can an artist re-enact shared scenarios emphasising what of the old persists in the present? This publication collects three years' work within present_continuous, a project aimed at enhancing a collection of prints housed at the Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria in Turin. A still rather unexplored point of excellence in the institution’s holdings, which was organised in albums in the 1860s by the eclectic Piedmontese collector and connoisseur Giovanni Volpato. The project includes a cataloguing campaign, a symposium whose purpose was to renew the contemporary perception of the archive and in an international call was opened in order to select two artists – Alessandra Messali and Ryts Monet (Enrico De Napoli) – for a residency program dedicated to creating new perspectives, right from the collection of print, trying to voicing the social and cultural issues of our time.
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It was at Black Mountain College that Merce Cunningham formed his dance company, John Cage staged his first "happening," and Buckminster Fuller built his first dome. Although it lasted only twenty-four years (1933-1957) and enrolled fewer than 1,200 students, Black Mountain College launched a remarkable number of the artists who spearheaded the avant-garde in America of(...)
May 2002, Cambridge, Mass.
The arts at Black Mountain College
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It was at Black Mountain College that Merce Cunningham formed his dance company, John Cage staged his first "happening," and Buckminster Fuller built his first dome. Although it lasted only twenty-four years (1933-1957) and enrolled fewer than 1,200 students, Black Mountain College launched a remarkable number of the artists who spearheaded the avant-garde in America of the 1960s. The faculty included such diverse talents as Anni and Josef Albers, Eric Bentley, Ilya Bolotowsky, Robert Creeley, Willem de Kooning, Robert Duncan, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Goodman, Walter Gropius, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, and Charles Olson. Among the students were Ruth Asawa, John Chamberlain, Francine du Plessix Gray, Kenneth Noland, Arthur Penn, Robert Rauschenberg, Kenneth Snelson, Cy Twombly, Stan Vanderbeek, and Jose Yglesias. In this definitive account of the arts at Black Mountain College, back in print after many years, Mary Emma Harris describes a unique educational experiment and the artists and writers who conducted it. She replaces the myth of the college as a haphazardly conceived venture with a portrait of a consciously directed liberal arts school that grew out of the progressive education movement. Proceeding chronologically through the four major periods of the college’s history, Harris covers every aspect of its extraordinary curriculum in the visual, literary, and performing arts.
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May 2002, Cambridge, Mass.
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Extensively illustrated, the catalog contains an essay by the artistic director, Okwui Enwezor, contributions from members of the Documenta11 team, and texts written by invited authors from different fields, such as art history, philosophy, or theory. All artists are featured with illustrations of representative works, and the documentation of selected artists’ projects(...)
January 1900, Ostfildern
Documenta_11 exhibition catalogue
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Extensively illustrated, the catalog contains an essay by the artistic director, Okwui Enwezor, contributions from members of the Documenta11 team, and texts written by invited authors from different fields, such as art history, philosophy, or theory. All artists are featured with illustrations of representative works, and the documentation of selected artists’ projects and writings facilitate an additional insight into the processes of creative thought and the mechanisms of reception at stake in the making of the exhibition. Short guide also available.
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January 1900, Ostfildern
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The snow show
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Ambitious, unique and impermanent, seventeen sublime works in snow and ice were realized through partnerships between thirty-four impassioned international artists and architects. A triumph of creativity over fleeting material, the results are ingenious and breathtaking. In snowbound Lapland the seventeen partnerships produced projects that ranged from exercises in(...)
May 2005, New York
The snow show
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Ambitious, unique and impermanent, seventeen sublime works in snow and ice were realized through partnerships between thirty-four impassioned international artists and architects. A triumph of creativity over fleeting material, the results are ingenious and breathtaking. In snowbound Lapland the seventeen partnerships produced projects that ranged from exercises in formal experimentation to highly conceptual artistic statements.
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May 2005, New York
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One of the premier institutions of contemporary art in the country, the Walker Art Center also holds an important collection of over 11,000 objects from the early 20th century to the present. These holdings reflect the Center's renowned multidisciplinary program, and include paintings, sculpture, prints, photography, film, video, installations, and digital arts that range(...)
April 2005, Minneapolis
Bits & pieces put together to present a semblance of a whole : Walker Art Center collections
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One of the premier institutions of contemporary art in the country, the Walker Art Center also holds an important collection of over 11,000 objects from the early 20th century to the present. These holdings reflect the Center's renowned multidisciplinary program, and include paintings, sculpture, prints, photography, film, video, installations, and digital arts that range in date from classic early modernist to cutting edge contemporary. While aiming to represent the immense diversity in art-making around the world, the collection also is known for several areas of specialty including Minimalism, Arte Povera, Fluxus, and contemporary printmaking. In-depth representations of work by individual artists, including Matthew Barney, Joseph Beuys, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, William Klein, Robert Motherwell, and Kara Walker reflect the Center's long and close relationships with many of the century's most creative minds. Showcased in this stunning, expansive, well-designed volume are more than 650 beautifully reproduced works of art. Co-authored by the Walker's curators and staff, and more than 30 Walker alumni, this book draws heavily on Walker archival material to serve as both a history of the institution and a primer on modern and contemporary art. Adding further dimension to the polyvocal, multifaceted rendition of this dynamic public art centre are contributions from a select group of acclaimed writers including, A.S. Byatt, Joshua Clover, Arthur Danto, Dave Eggers, Darby English, Annie Proulx, David Shapiro, and others. The catalogue is published in conjunction with the Spring 2005 re-opening of the newly expanded Walker Art Center. Artists include Matthew Barney, Chuck Close, Bruce Conner, Joseph Cornell, Merce Cummingham, Dan Flavin, Robert Gober, Dan Graham, David Hockney, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, William Klein, Sherrie Levine, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Sharon Lockhart, Kerry James Marshall, Bruce Nauman, Isamu Noguchi, Claes Oldenburg, Raymond Pettibon, Richard Prince, Charles Ray, Edward Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, Frank Stella, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol, and many others. Edited by Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter. Essays by Elizabeth Alexander, A.S. Byatt, Dave Eggers, Arthur C. Danto, Wayne Koestenbaum, James Lingwood, Linda Nochlin, Annie Proulx, David Shapiro, Charles Simic, Howard Singerman, Hamza Walker et al.
Art brut du Canada
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Ce volume, dédié aux expressions de l’art outsider réalisées au Canada, a pour premier objectif d’atteindre et de sensibiliser sur ce thème un public de lecteurs le plus vaste possible. L’ouvrage donne la parole à des artistes qui, jusqu’à une période récente, étaient exclus du monde de l’art traditionnel, leur travail ne se conformant pas aux idéologies des institutions(...)
February 2024
Art brut du Canada
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Ce volume, dédié aux expressions de l’art outsider réalisées au Canada, a pour premier objectif d’atteindre et de sensibiliser sur ce thème un public de lecteurs le plus vaste possible. L’ouvrage donne la parole à des artistes qui, jusqu’à une période récente, étaient exclus du monde de l’art traditionnel, leur travail ne se conformant pas aux idéologies des institutions artistiques établies. L’art outsider est le reflet d’un territoire de production culturelle qui donne un sens et une visibilité aux pratiques de création indépendantes de la formation formelle, des mouvements artistiques reconnus et des tendances actuelles. L’art outsider n’existe, dit-on, qu’en raison de l’élitisme culturel et des différences de classe où les marges sont définies par le centre. La marginalisation sociale de ses représentants, souvent due à des problèmes de santé mentale, a conduit à leur exclusion du monde de l’art contemporain. Ce livre, qui invite les spectateurs à renoncer aux mythes et aux stéréotypes sur l’origine de la créativité et à soutenir le travail de créateurs autodidactes s’exprimant de manière unique, affronte les thèmes de la justice sociale, de la diversité et de l’intégration dans le monde de l’art.
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Au cœur d’un édifice à l’architecture néoclassique, construit entre 1927 et 1932 par Paul Bigot (1870-1942) et Louis Guindez (1889-1978), le musée des Beaux-Arts Antoine-Lécuyer conserve aujourd’hui près de 4 500 œuvres. Pensé comme un écrin pour accueillir le prestigieux fonds d’atelier de Maurice-Quentin de La Tour qu’il conserve, le musée invite à un voyage esthétique(...)
February 2024
Musée des Beaux-Arts Antoine Lecuyer : Guide des collections
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Au cœur d’un édifice à l’architecture néoclassique, construit entre 1927 et 1932 par Paul Bigot (1870-1942) et Louis Guindez (1889-1978), le musée des Beaux-Arts Antoine-Lécuyer conserve aujourd’hui près de 4 500 œuvres. Pensé comme un écrin pour accueillir le prestigieux fonds d’atelier de Maurice-Quentin de La Tour qu’il conserve, le musée invite à un voyage esthétique à travers l’histoire de l’art européen : des objets antiques aux collections médiévales, des chefs-d’œuvre des artistes des Temps modernes (XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles) aux grands représentants des courants artistiques des XIXe et XXe siècles.
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''Style Congo: Heritage & heresy'' examines the politics of cultural representation and appropriation through contemporary artistic and architectural interventions, as well as historical materials primarily sourced from the CIVA collection in Brussels. Starting with the Art Nouveau movement and stemming from the exhibition of the same name, this book traces the portrayal(...)
September 2023
Style Congo: Heritage and heresy
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''Style Congo: Heritage & heresy'' examines the politics of cultural representation and appropriation through contemporary artistic and architectural interventions, as well as historical materials primarily sourced from the CIVA collection in Brussels. Starting with the Art Nouveau movement and stemming from the exhibition of the same name, this book traces the portrayal of the Congo in international and colonial exhibitions in Belgium, France, and the Congo between 1885 and 1958.
Astèr Atèrla
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Un panorama d'envergure de la scène artistique réunionnaise, à travers l'exploration des œuvres de 34 artistes qui interrogent la société postcoloniale, la migration, le déplacement, l'hybridation culturelle, ainsi que notre compréhension du vivre ensemble, et des textes de cinq auteur·es.
June 2023
Astèr Atèrla
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Un panorama d'envergure de la scène artistique réunionnaise, à travers l'exploration des œuvres de 34 artistes qui interrogent la société postcoloniale, la migration, le déplacement, l'hybridation culturelle, ainsi que notre compréhension du vivre ensemble, et des textes de cinq auteur·es.
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Le prolongement et l'aboutissement d'un vaste projet, articulé entre une exposition et un colloque, imaginé par le commissaire sud-africain Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape (Mo Laudi), invitant 17 artistes d'Afrique et de sa diaspora et un ensemble de chercheurs à évoquer l'esthétique noire et proposer une vision alternative d'un monde sans frontières.
April 2024
Globalisto : Une philosophie en mouvement, Actes d'un imbizo
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Le prolongement et l'aboutissement d'un vaste projet, articulé entre une exposition et un colloque, imaginé par le commissaire sud-africain Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape (Mo Laudi), invitant 17 artistes d'Afrique et de sa diaspora et un ensemble de chercheurs à évoquer l'esthétique noire et proposer une vision alternative d'un monde sans frontières.