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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
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What would it mean today to think or to imagine, to design or to construct, in relation not to "things made" but to "things in the making"? This question, first posed by the philosopher William James, was the point of departure for "The Pragmatist Imagination". The volume brings together position statements, theoretical speculations, and critical commentary by 33 leading(...)
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November 2001, New York
The pragmatist imagination : thinking about things in the making
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What would it mean today to think or to imagine, to design or to construct, in relation not to "things made" but to "things in the making"? This question, first posed by the philosopher William James, was the point of departure for "The Pragmatist Imagination". The volume brings together position statements, theoretical speculations, and critical commentary by 33 leading thinkers and makers from over a dozen disciplines. Based on the proceedings of an international workshop held at Columbia University under the auspices of the Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture in spring 2000, a preamble to the much-ballyhooed conference at the Museum of Modern Art in November, 2000, the contributions traverse a set of burning questions about the future, ranging from the relationship between art and experience to the impact of new technologies on human consciousness, from transformations in everyday life to problems of public space, and from the destiny of the nation-state to emergent forms of transnationalism. The authors include Stanley Aronowitz, Marshall Berman, Casey Nelson Blake, Sandra Buckley, Teresa Caldeira, Jean-Louis Cohen, Jonathan Crary, Rosalyn Deutsche, Kenneth Frampton, Gerald E. Frug, Peter Galison, Elizabeth Grosz, Andreas Huyssen, Isaac Joseph, David Lapoujade, Reinhold Martin, Brian Massumi, Mary McLeod, Paul Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky, Chantal Mouffe, Joan Ockman, John Rajchman, Martha Rosler, Hashim Sarkis, Saskia Sassen, Sandhya Shukla, Richard Shusterman, Abdoumaliq Simone, Anders Stephanson, Bernard Tschumi, Nadia Urbinati, Mabel Wilson, and Gwendolyn Wright. The book includes an introduction by John Rajchman and an afterword by Casey Nelson Blake.
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November 2001, New York
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Long considered a pioneer creator of ecological artworks for urban environments, Alan Sonfist has been fusing human history and the natural environment since the mid 1960s. Few artists have had such an unswerving, or generative, interest in the landscape - be it physical, social, or historical - that surrounds us. Essays by Lawrence Alloway, Jonathan Carpenter, John(...)
Nature, the end of art : enviromental landscapes
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Long considered a pioneer creator of ecological artworks for urban environments, Alan Sonfist has been fusing human history and the natural environment since the mid 1960s. Few artists have had such an unswerving, or generative, interest in the landscape - be it physical, social, or historical - that surrounds us. Essays by Lawrence Alloway, Jonathan Carpenter, John Grande, Uwe Rüth, and Michael Danoff. Introduction by Robert Rosenblum and Wolfgang Becker.
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Inspired by the symmetrical, Jeffersonian layout of the American Pavilion’s neoclassical architecture, and by Thomas Cole's cycle of the same name, Ed Ruscha installed this ten-painting exhibition titled "Course of empire" at the 2005 Venice biennale. Five pieces are painted in color and five in black and white. The artist paired each work from his 1992 Blue collar series(...)
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September 2005, New York
Course of empire : paintings of Ed Ruscha, United State pavilion, 51st Venice biennale, 2005
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Inspired by the symmetrical, Jeffersonian layout of the American Pavilion’s neoclassical architecture, and by Thomas Cole's cycle of the same name, Ed Ruscha installed this ten-painting exhibition titled "Course of empire" at the 2005 Venice biennale. Five pieces are painted in color and five in black and white. The artist paired each work from his 1992 Blue collar series with a new color canvas depicting the future of the same urban landscape, some deteriorated, some growing and changing, some seemingly gentrifying. The exhibition will travel in 2006 to The Whitney museum of American art in New York. Essays from Linda Norden, the U.S. commissioner for the Venice Biennale, and artist Frances Stark celebrate the work, while Joan Didion’s coolly written but deeply felt piece about her own brokenhearted longing for Los Angeles hits a perfect note.
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Roman Signer
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Since the mid 1970s Roman Signer has examined the forces of the elements – air, fire, earth and water – in a combination of performance (documented by photography and video) and sculpture (the physical remains of his acts). With a Dadaist love for the absurd, his artworks include Race (1981), in which the artist races a rocket across a field (hopelessly behind from the(...)
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June 2006, London
Roman Signer
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Since the mid 1970s Roman Signer has examined the forces of the elements – air, fire, earth and water – in a combination of performance (documented by photography and video) and sculpture (the physical remains of his acts). With a Dadaist love for the absurd, his artworks include Race (1981), in which the artist races a rocket across a field (hopelessly behind from the outset, the artist loses by nearly the entire length); Action at Hotel Weissbad (1992), in which an ordinary table is shot out a hotel window, the resulting photographs showing a table flying incongruously over a sleepy Swiss village; Power of Rain (1974), in which rainwater gathers slowly in a funnel until its force shatters a block of plaster; and Bicycle with Rockets (1991), the photographs of which show a fiery bicycle flying through the gallery like a demon comet. Often Signer will exhibit in the gallery the remains of an event not witnessed by the public, such as four empty barrels and a violently splattered wall, the remains of an explosion of paint in the gallery space (Portrait Gallery, 1993), or four sand piles with perfectly round craters on each, the neat result of four simultaneous explosions at their peaks (Cones of Sand, 1988). Roman Signer’s work has been exhibited at major venues across Europe and North America, as well as important international exhibitions such as Documenta 8 (1987), Skulptur Projekte in Munster (1997) and the 48th Venice Biennale (1999), in which he represented Switzerland.
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Tacita Dean
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The intricately associative works of Berlin-based English artist Tacita Dean (b.1965) combine film, video, installation, audio and drawing. Dean explores the ways that chance and coincidence influence daily life by archiving forgotten fragments of history and constructing narratives that connect past and present, fact and fiction, private histories and larger events.
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March 2006, London
Tacita Dean
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The intricately associative works of Berlin-based English artist Tacita Dean (b.1965) combine film, video, installation, audio and drawing. Dean explores the ways that chance and coincidence influence daily life by archiving forgotten fragments of history and constructing narratives that connect past and present, fact and fiction, private histories and larger events.
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Modern Japanese House
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"Modern Japanese house" is an overview of recent domestic design trends in Japan and features an array of projects from a variety of architects, both known and new to the international architecture scene. The projects are divided into five chapters - Tiny houses, Inside/ outside, Multi generation houses, Work/play, and Vacation houses - that reflect the issues particular(...)
Contemporary Asian Architecture
October 2005, London / New York
Modern Japanese House
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"Modern Japanese house" is an overview of recent domestic design trends in Japan and features an array of projects from a variety of architects, both known and new to the international architecture scene. The projects are divided into five chapters - Tiny houses, Inside/ outside, Multi generation houses, Work/play, and Vacation houses - that reflect the issues particular to residential design in Japan. Architects featured include Kazuyo Sejima, Jun Aoki, Shigeru Ban, Hitoshi Abe and Shuhei Endo, as well as lesser known practitioners such as Nobuaki Furuya and Hiroshii Nakao, among others.
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October 2005, London / New York
Contemporary Asian Architecture
Isa Genzken
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Interview – in her discussion with Diedrich Diedrichsen the artist considers her relationship to the many sources behind her work : minimal sculpture, modernist architecture, conceptual art, and other multi-media artists` practices, such as Bruce Nauman’s. Survey – Alex Farquharson examines the principal themes in Genzken’s work since her now-legendary first exhibition in(...)
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October 2005, London
Isa Genzken
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Interview – in her discussion with Diedrich Diedrichsen the artist considers her relationship to the many sources behind her work : minimal sculpture, modernist architecture, conceptual art, and other multi-media artists` practices, such as Bruce Nauman’s. Survey – Alex Farquharson examines the principal themes in Genzken’s work since her now-legendary first exhibition in Berlin whilst still a student of Gerhard Richter. Focus – Sabine Breitwieser looks at Genzken’s little known ‘Hi-Fi’ series of photographic works, which centre on magazine advertisements for stereo equipment. Artist’s choice – "The bad glazier" by Charles Baudelaire (1869). Artist’s writings – notes from a 1973 exercise based on instructions by Bruce Nauman ; an previously unpublishd 1996 film script ; a 2003 interview with Wolfgang Tillmans ; and two new artist`s statements. Chronology and bibliography.
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Territoires urbains
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«Territoires urbains» présente le travail photographique de six artistes qui ont fait de la ville en perpétuel changement leur sujet. À travers une vaste gamme d'intérêts et d'approches, chaque artiste propose une réponse à la question suivante : qu'est-ce-que la photographie documentaire au 21e siècle? Pour cette génération de photographes, la ville n'est pas le sujet de(...)
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October 2005, Montréal
Territoires urbains
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«Territoires urbains» présente le travail photographique de six artistes qui ont fait de la ville en perpétuel changement leur sujet. À travers une vaste gamme d'intérêts et d'approches, chaque artiste propose une réponse à la question suivante : qu'est-ce-que la photographie documentaire au 21e siècle? Pour cette génération de photographes, la ville n'est pas le sujet de leur enquête, mais plutôt le contexte. Pour ces artistes, la ville évoque les aspects sociaux, politiques et judiciaires de la société, tout en étant un endroit de travail, d'échange et de divertissement. Les artistes expriment ainsi leurs travaux un point de vue particulier sur la réalité urbaine, qu'il s'agisse du territoire physique ou de l'espace social. Artistes participants : Christian Barré, Martin Désilets, Isabelle Hayeur, Emmanuelle Léonard, Pavel Pavlov et Myriam Yates. L'essai est accompagné de textes d'artistes.
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Away from home
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This catalogue documents "Away from home" with extensive illustrations, entries on each artist, essays by Jan Avgikos, Mark Cousins, and Jeffrey Kipnis, and an introduction by Annetta Massie, the exhibition's curator. "Away from Home" was on view at Columbus College of Art & Design's Canzani Center Gallery February 1 - April 20, 2003.
Contemporary Art Monographs
July 2003, Columbus, Ohio
Away from home
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This catalogue documents "Away from home" with extensive illustrations, entries on each artist, essays by Jan Avgikos, Mark Cousins, and Jeffrey Kipnis, and an introduction by Annetta Massie, the exhibition's curator. "Away from Home" was on view at Columbus College of Art & Design's Canzani Center Gallery February 1 - April 20, 2003.
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