David Adjaye Adam Pendleton
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This new volume, designed in collaboration with American artist Adam Pendleton (born 1984) and Ghanaian British artist and architect David Adjaye (born 1966), explores the blurred boundary between art and architecture. Featuring new silkscreen canvases by Pendleton and marble sculptures by Adjaye, this publication brings the artists and their works into conversation. The(...)
David Adjaye Adam Pendleton
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This new volume, designed in collaboration with American artist Adam Pendleton (born 1984) and Ghanaian British artist and architect David Adjaye (born 1966), explores the blurred boundary between art and architecture. Featuring new silkscreen canvases by Pendleton and marble sculptures by Adjaye, this publication brings the artists and their works into conversation. The two collaborators discuss their respective practices and their process of working together on the creation of the exhibition at Pace, as well as notions of history, language, abstraction and space- whether architectonic or on canvas- and how these themes involve and reveal themselves in their work. Images of finished artworks are interspersed with photographs of their production, giving a behind-the-scenes look at process, from the quarrying, cutting and polishing of marble for Adjaye’s works to the meeting of ink and canvas in Pendleton’s studio.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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In the late 1970s Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) was commissioned by architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to create an artwork for the lobby of a new office building underway in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Kelly responded with one of his most ambitious artworks to date, ''Color Panels for a Large Wall,'' an 18-panel painting executed in two versions. The larger, at(...)
Ellsworth Kelly: Color panels for a large wall
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In the late 1970s Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) was commissioned by architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to create an artwork for the lobby of a new office building underway in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Kelly responded with one of his most ambitious artworks to date, ''Color Panels for a Large Wall,'' an 18-panel painting executed in two versions. The larger, at over 125 feet wide, was the biggest painting he had ever made, and its trajectory would pass through not just Cincinnati but also Amsterdam, New York and Munich before ending up at its permanent home, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, where it has been prominently installed in the I.M. Pei–designed East Building since 2004.The smaller version, over 30 feet wide, remained in the artist's possession. This catalog tells the complete story of these two remarkable paintings.
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Conceived as an illustrated “field guide” to the work of Danish artist Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967), this book features a substantial conversation between the artist and Tate curator Mark Godfrey, as well as a collection of short dialogues with a strikingly varied range of people working both inside and outside the arts—from anthropology, economics, political science, and(...)
Olafur Eliasson: In real life
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Conceived as an illustrated “field guide” to the work of Danish artist Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967), this book features a substantial conversation between the artist and Tate curator Mark Godfrey, as well as a collection of short dialogues with a strikingly varied range of people working both inside and outside the arts—from anthropology, economics, political science, and biology to architecture and urbanism, dance, music, and food. Eliasson builds such conversations into his daily life and work. They help him not only to understand other people’s unique fields of knowledge, but also to ask, “What does my understanding of your knowledge do to my understanding of the world?” The interweaving of these texts with stunning photography of his remarkable and immersive works provides an insight into what Eliasson calls his ongoing aim of “reaching out into the world.”
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One of the most influential American conceptual artists of the late 1960s, Dan Graham (born 1942) is particularly celebrated for his pavilions : interactive spaces that walk the line between sculpture and architecture, many of which include the use of two-way mirrors or “looking-glasses.” These installations allow the visitor to ponder himself or herself in the mirror as(...)
Dan Graham ; not yet realised, pavilion drawings
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One of the most influential American conceptual artists of the late 1960s, Dan Graham (born 1942) is particularly celebrated for his pavilions : interactive spaces that walk the line between sculpture and architecture, many of which include the use of two-way mirrors or “looking-glasses.” These installations allow the visitor to ponder himself or herself in the mirror as they walk through the pavilion, watch as others inspect their own reflections, or even catch another’s eye through the glass. Not Yet Realised : Pavilion Drawings, published on the occasion of the 2012 exhibition Dan Graham’s Pavilions at the Lisson Gallery in London, presents numerous drawings and proposals for possible future pavilions. Some of the plans are thoroughly developed, with straight lines and precise measurements, while other more quickly drawn sketches capture his initial ideas as they arise.
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Maya Lin : boundaries
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Walking through this parklike area, the memorial appears as a rift in the earth - a long, polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the earth. Approaching the memorial, the ground slopes gently downward, and the low walls emerging on either side, growing out of the earth, extend and converge at a point below and ahead. Walking into the grassy site(...)
Maya Lin : boundaries
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Walking through this parklike area, the memorial appears as a rift in the earth - a long, polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the earth. Approaching the memorial, the ground slopes gently downward, and the low walls emerging on either side, growing out of the earth, extend and converge at a point below and ahead. Walking into the grassy site contained by the walls of this memorial, we can barely make out the carved names upon the memorial's walls. These names, seemingly infinite in number, convey the sense of overwhelming numbers, while unifying these individuals into a whole.... So begins the competition entry submitted in 1981 by a Yale undergraduate for the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. - subsequently called "as moving and awesome and popular a piece of memorial architecture as exists anywhere in the world." Its creator, Maya Lin, has been nothing less than world famous ever since. From the explicitly political to the un-ashamedly literary to the completely abstract, her simple and powerful sculpture - the Rockefeller Foundation sculpture, the Southern Poverty Law Center Civil Rights Memorial, the Yale Women's Table, Wave Field - her architecture, including The Museum for African Art and the Norton residence, and her protean design talents have defined her as one of the most gifted creative geniuses of the age. Boundaries is her first book : an eloquent visual/verbal sketchbook produced with the same inspiration and attention to detail as any of her other artworks. Like her environmental sculptures, it is a site, but one which exists at a remove so that it may comment on the personal and artistic elements that make up those works. In it, sketches, photographs, workbook entries, and original designs are held together by a deeply personal text. "Boundaries" is a powerful literary and visual statement by "a leading public artist" (Holland Carter). It is itself a unique work of art.
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In The Second Self, Sherry Turkle looks at the computer not as a "tool," but as part of our social and psychological lives; she looks beyond how we use computer games and spreadsheets to explore how the computer affects our awareness of ourselves, of one another, and of our relationship with the world. "Technology," she writes, "catalyzes changes not only in what we do(...)
January 2005
The second self: computers and the human spirit
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In The Second Self, Sherry Turkle looks at the computer not as a "tool," but as part of our social and psychological lives; she looks beyond how we use computer games and spreadsheets to explore how the computer affects our awareness of ourselves, of one another, and of our relationship with the world. "Technology," she writes, "catalyzes changes not only in what we do but in how we think." First published in 1984, The Second Self is still essential reading as a primer in the psychology of computation. This twentieth anniversary edition allows us to reconsider two decades of computer culture--to (re)experience what was and is most novel in our new media culture and to view our own contemporary relationship with technology with fresh eyes.
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January 2005
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Grey room 32, summer 2008
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"Grey room" brings together scholarly and theoretical articles from the fields of architecture, art, media, and politics to forge a cross-disciplinary discourse uniquely relevant to contemporary concerns. "Grey room" features original articles, translations, interviews, dossiers, and academic exchanges Contributors to this issue : Mark Godfrey, Sven Lütticken, Pepper(...)
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August 2008, Cambridge (MA)
Grey room 32, summer 2008
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"Grey room" brings together scholarly and theoretical articles from the fields of architecture, art, media, and politics to forge a cross-disciplinary discourse uniquely relevant to contemporary concerns. "Grey room" features original articles, translations, interviews, dossiers, and academic exchanges Contributors to this issue : Mark Godfrey, Sven Lütticken, Pepper Stetler, Juan Suárez.
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August 2008, Cambridge (MA)
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Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963) creates spare, poetic sculptures that challenge perceptions of the commonplace. Working from everyday domestic items, she casts - in rubber, concrete, plaster, and polyester resin - the negative spaces inside closets and underneath beds, sinks, bathtubs, and chairs. Now, in what may be her most personal project to date, the Turner Prize-winning(...)
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October 2001, New York
Rachel Whiteread : transient spaces
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Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963) creates spare, poetic sculptures that challenge perceptions of the commonplace. Working from everyday domestic items, she casts - in rubber, concrete, plaster, and polyester resin - the negative spaces inside closets and underneath beds, sinks, bathtubs, and chairs. Now, in what may be her most personal project to date, the Turner Prize-winning artist has been commissioned by Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin to make two large-scale casts from distinct spaces in a London building that she recently purchased to become her home and studio. Although the building has a history as both a synagogue and a factory, it is a product of austere postwar architecture, lacking many of the traditional embellishments associated with such structures. This fully illustrated volume documents Whiteread's process as she creates casts from this religious-cum-industrial-cum-personal space, which blurs boundaries between the spiritual and secular, as well as the public and private.
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October 2001, New York
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Art 42 est le premier musée de street art en France. Installé au cœur de 42, l’école d’informatique fondée par Xavier Niel, dans le 17e arrondissement de Paris, le musée est gratuit et permanent. L’ADN de l’art urbain est de casser les codes. En présentant une collection d’art urbain dans un lieu aussi inattendu que 42, Nicolas Laugero Lasserre crée une passerelle entre(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
February 2017
Art 42
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Art 42 est le premier musée de street art en France. Installé au cœur de 42, l’école d’informatique fondée par Xavier Niel, dans le 17e arrondissement de Paris, le musée est gratuit et permanent. L’ADN de l’art urbain est de casser les codes. En présentant une collection d’art urbain dans un lieu aussi inattendu que 42, Nicolas Laugero Lasserre crée une passerelle entre deux mondes, que sont la rue et le musée. 42 figure parmi les écoles d’informatique européennes les plus innovantes au monde. Fleuron d’un enseignement progressiste, elle s’est imposée comme une évidence pour accueillir une collection tout aussi audacieuse, avec des œuvres aussi atypiques que l’espace. Pourtant à rebours de l’idée même de musée, de par sa nature et son architecture, 42 offre à l’art urbain une vitrine majeure. ART 42, c’est un musée qui n’en est pas vraiment un, dans une école qui n’en est pas vraiment une…
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En publiant à la une du Figaro, le 20 février 1909, le Manifeste du futurisme, le poète italien Marinetti lance le premier mouvement d'avant-garde artistique du XXe siècle. Son propos est radical : assez des chefs-d'œuvre du passé et des musées, vive la modernité des villes et la beauté de la vitesse! Des peintres s'y rallient bientôt – Boccioni, Carrà, Russolo, Balla et(...)
Le futurisme: une avant-garde radicale
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En publiant à la une du Figaro, le 20 février 1909, le Manifeste du futurisme, le poète italien Marinetti lance le premier mouvement d'avant-garde artistique du XXe siècle. Son propos est radical : assez des chefs-d'œuvre du passé et des musées, vive la modernité des villes et la beauté de la vitesse! Des peintres s'y rallient bientôt – Boccioni, Carrà, Russolo, Balla et Severini –, prônant à leur tour le «dynamisme pictural». Soirées futuristes et conférences se multiplient un peu partout en Europe, de même que les manifestes, tant politiques qu'artistiques. Gagnant rapidement tous les domaines – sculpture, architecture, musique, mais aussi cinéma, théâtre, danse, mode et cuisine –, le futurisme opère jusque dans les années 1930 une véritable révolution des idées, et une mise en cause de l'art lui-même. C'est à l'analyse de cette «philosophie du devenir» que nous convie Giovanni Lista, manifestes à l'appui.
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