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This groundbreaking exploration of appropriation and institutional critique assembles a wide variety of artists and mediums to offer new insight and make unprecedented connections. Exploring two parallel strands of post-conceptual art, Take It or Leave It highlights artists known for their use of appropriation and those who engage in "institutional critique." Focusing on(...)
March 2014
Take it or leave it: institution, image, ideology
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This groundbreaking exploration of appropriation and institutional critique assembles a wide variety of artists and mediums to offer new insight and make unprecedented connections. Exploring two parallel strands of post-conceptual art, Take It or Leave It highlights artists known for their use of appropriation and those who engage in "institutional critique." Focusing on American artists who emerged from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, the book highlights dynamic practices in a variety of media: from performance to photography; video to installation; painting to writing. Artists as wide-ranging in approach as Dara Birnbaum, Mark Dion, Robert Gober, Barbara Kruger, Zoe Leonard, Glenn Ligon, Adrian Piper, Stephen Prina, and Fred Wilson are examined within the context of the larger culture— from the political landscape to design strategies in advertising. Essays by curators Anne Ellegood and Johanna Burton as well as scholars George Baker, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Gavin Butt, and Darby English explore the historical and current terrain of appropriation and institutional critique, while pursuing topics including the downtown music scene in New York in the '80s, new strategies of painting, and theories of race after identity politics' heyday.
Art and electronic media
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A timely survey that addresses the relationship between art and electronic technology, including mechanics, light, graphics, robots, virtual reality and the web.
September 2014
Art and electronic media
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A timely survey that addresses the relationship between art and electronic technology, including mechanics, light, graphics, robots, virtual reality and the web.
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For the past thirteen years, Autocenter has put its stamp on Berlin’s contemporary arts scene. Founded in 2001 by Maik Schierloh and Joep van Liefland in a former auto body shop in Berlin-Friedrichshain, Autocenter has become an indispensable fixture of the city’s arts scene and one of its most important venues. In March 2013, Autocenter moved to Berlin’s Mitte district,(...)
July 2014
Autocenter, space for contemporary art, Berlin
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For the past thirteen years, Autocenter has put its stamp on Berlin’s contemporary arts scene. Founded in 2001 by Maik Schierloh and Joep van Liefland in a former auto body shop in Berlin-Friedrichshain, Autocenter has become an indispensable fixture of the city’s arts scene and one of its most important venues. In March 2013, Autocenter moved to Berlin’s Mitte district, where it continues to present exhibitions and projects by German and international artists in rapid succession. The 160 shows featuring work by more than 750 artists have always been transient affairs — in the early years, most exhibitions were on display for a mere two day. The book is a survey of the artists who visited or moved to Berlin in the past thirteen years and shows how contemporary art changed over time. Autocenter has not only been a keen observer of the city’s arts scene, it also helped shape its evolution.
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Developed through artistic research in the Weltkulturen Museum’s Weltkulturen Labor research lab, Foreign Exchange raises questions about the relationship between the museum’s educational and scientific aims and global trade. Together, essays by anthropologists, art historians, artists, and curators form an extended conversation around the historical accumulation and(...)
August 2014
Foreign exchange: (or the stories you wouldn't tell a stranger)
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Developed through artistic research in the Weltkulturen Museum’s Weltkulturen Labor research lab, Foreign Exchange raises questions about the relationship between the museum’s educational and scientific aims and global trade. Together, essays by anthropologists, art historians, artists, and curators form an extended conversation around the historical accumulation and commodification of artifacts and, in particular, the representation of the human body in ethnographic photographs.
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On the Hotel in the Arts and Artists in the Hotel. Over the past 200 hundred years the topos of the hotel has increasingly become a subject of artistic interest. Artists have not only examined the hotel as a motif but have appropriated its rooms, decorating and inhabiting them.The Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden exhibition traces these multi-faceted relationships over(...)
Room service
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On the Hotel in the Arts and Artists in the Hotel. Over the past 200 hundred years the topos of the hotel has increasingly become a subject of artistic interest. Artists have not only examined the hotel as a motif but have appropriated its rooms, decorating and inhabiting them.The Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden exhibition traces these multi-faceted relationships over time and also examines problematic social aspects of this phenomenon.To capture the mythic dimensions of the hotel, the exhibition Room Service, is also accompanied by an exhibition route that leads through the citys prominent hotels.
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In 1993, the curator and art critic Hans Ulrich Obrist (born 1968) organized an unannounced exhibition in a hotel room in Paris, where he lived for the duration of the show. This publication tours the now-legendary event, documenting the work of the 70 invited artists.
August 2014
Room 763
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In 1993, the curator and art critic Hans Ulrich Obrist (born 1968) organized an unannounced exhibition in a hotel room in Paris, where he lived for the duration of the show. This publication tours the now-legendary event, documenting the work of the 70 invited artists.
Big sign - Little building
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All the works selected for Big Sign-Little Building explore new interpretations of landscape that synthesize art and architecture. Artists include Charlotte Posenenske, Ed Ruscha, Claes Oldenburg, Allan D'Arcangelo, Robert Smithson and Jeff Wall.
Big sign - Little building
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All the works selected for Big Sign-Little Building explore new interpretations of landscape that synthesize art and architecture. Artists include Charlotte Posenenske, Ed Ruscha, Claes Oldenburg, Allan D'Arcangelo, Robert Smithson and Jeff Wall.
Architektonika
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Architektonika chronicles a multi-media exhibition that examines how differently artists have approached the interface between art and architecture since the 1960s. Artists include Fischli & Weiss, Dan Graham, Sol LeWitt, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bruce Nauman, Roman Ondák, Thomas Schütte and James Turrell.
September 2014
Architektonika
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Architektonika chronicles a multi-media exhibition that examines how differently artists have approached the interface between art and architecture since the 1960s. Artists include Fischli & Weiss, Dan Graham, Sol LeWitt, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bruce Nauman, Roman Ondák, Thomas Schütte and James Turrell.
L'art brut dans le monde
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Les sept auteurs réunis dans cet ouvrage ont conservé cette alliance originelle pour faire cohabiter les deux ordres du rationnel et du poétique. Leurs créations, récemment découvertes ou retrouvées à Bali, au Brésil, au Bénin, en Inde, dans le Grand Nord arctique, en Sicile et en Allemagne, montrent un Art Brut cosmopolite, métissé de poésie. Certains cultivent des liens(...)
September 2014
L'art brut dans le monde
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Les sept auteurs réunis dans cet ouvrage ont conservé cette alliance originelle pour faire cohabiter les deux ordres du rationnel et du poétique. Leurs créations, récemment découvertes ou retrouvées à Bali, au Brésil, au Bénin, en Inde, dans le Grand Nord arctique, en Sicile et en Allemagne, montrent un Art Brut cosmopolite, métissé de poésie. Certains cultivent des liens sensibles avec la nature et te cosmos, se mettant à leur écoute attentive, à la manière d'un archer zen. Ces auteurs de divers pays et continents montrent une disponibilité particulière, une sorte d'état exploratoire où la raison se relâche, grâce à laquelle ils se dégagent de la réalité. Ainsi, des guirlandes de visages enchantent les nuits de Ni Tanjung, des peintures tatouent les murs de la ville grâce à Giovanni Bosco, des machines à voler ou à coudre peuplent l'univers de Gustav Mesmer ainsi que celui d'Ezekiel Messou. Ailleurs, divinités et esprits surgissent de l'ombre sous les doigts de Kashinath Chawan et d'Anarqâq. Cet ouvrage contient un DVD avec six films documentaires qui permettent de découvrir les artistes sur leur lieu de vie et de création.
Taking a line for a walk
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This catalog based on the Klee exhibition at the Zentrum in Bern focuses on the significance of handwriting, writing and scriptive signs in artistic practice.In the modern era, script, characters and calligraphy have been areas in which artists have been able to choose between spontaneity and control, and between intuition and rule in their work, exploring the spaces in between.
Taking a line for a walk
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This catalog based on the Klee exhibition at the Zentrum in Bern focuses on the significance of handwriting, writing and scriptive signs in artistic practice.In the modern era, script, characters and calligraphy have been areas in which artists have been able to choose between spontaneity and control, and between intuition and rule in their work, exploring the spaces in between.