The MoMA plant collection
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"The MoMA Plant Collection" displays the tradition of including plant life in the Museum of Modern Art NY. The book presents 340 photographs and drawings that pay tribute to the pairing of plants with art. What can the placement of greenery next to the works of Mark Rothko, Henri Matisse, and many others tell us about the relationship between culture and nature? A(...)
The MoMA plant collection
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"The MoMA Plant Collection" displays the tradition of including plant life in the Museum of Modern Art NY. The book presents 340 photographs and drawings that pay tribute to the pairing of plants with art. What can the placement of greenery next to the works of Mark Rothko, Henri Matisse, and many others tell us about the relationship between culture and nature? A question that Meijer started to investigate in her first artist's book, 'The Plant Collection' (ROMA, 2019), on plants in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and continues at this museum in New York.
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Unearth 001: Shun Kadohashi
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''Unearth 001'' is Shun Kadohashi’s first book. It was published to coincide with aato gallery‘s exhibition ''Shapes and Paintings''. ''Unearth'' is a series of books exploring the practice and processes of artists working with ceramics.
Unearth 001: Shun Kadohashi
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''Unearth 001'' is Shun Kadohashi’s first book. It was published to coincide with aato gallery‘s exhibition ''Shapes and Paintings''. ''Unearth'' is a series of books exploring the practice and processes of artists working with ceramics.
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Dizionario Vol.1
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Italian artist Luca Massaro has been building a solid body of work on ‘the invisible space that separates an image from its caption, photographs from words, in their different forms of production, translation and transmission’. Through an eclectic array of photographs, words, sculptures, installations and artists books, concocted with advertising techniques of(...)
Dizionario Vol.1
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Italian artist Luca Massaro has been building a solid body of work on ‘the invisible space that separates an image from its caption, photographs from words, in their different forms of production, translation and transmission’. Through an eclectic array of photographs, words, sculptures, installations and artists books, concocted with advertising techniques of manipulation, borrowed from the urban and online accelerated mediascape, such as the proliferation of backlit devices, the repetition of graphic logos and leitmotifs, his work plays with the conflicting hybridization of iconotexts today. Dizionario is a long-term project: every ten years the artist will publish a volume that assembles around 1000 new images accumulated in the previous decade from his personal archive. This verbo-visual archive, a collision of signs, layers and transparencies, which creates abstract images out of language, is used as a matrix for the fabrication of new works with various materials. For Volume 1, these images-words have been shot in the public space and mostly, yet not exclusively, in the urban landscape, since 2012 in Europe, Japan, Mexico and North America.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Over the years, construction workers seem to have developed a mysterious script made with adhesive tape that is readable by only a few. What do these signs mean? Is this some sort of secret language? Or is there no meaning at all? Are things always as they seem? Visual artist and architect SerraGlia, fascinated by cities and by semiotics, decided to create an artistic and(...)
Signs fiction: seeking a new language
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Over the years, construction workers seem to have developed a mysterious script made with adhesive tape that is readable by only a few. What do these signs mean? Is this some sort of secret language? Or is there no meaning at all? Are things always as they seem? Visual artist and architect SerraGlia, fascinated by cities and by semiotics, decided to create an artistic and slightly ironic visual statement about these found signs. He is not seeking to reveal their absolute truth. Instead, he wants to question our perception of our surroundings.
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Batia Suter: Exosphere
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Swiss-born, Amsterdam-based artist Batia Suter presents a recent project in which she deals in a humorous and indirect way with the fundamentals of sculpture. The book is comprised of reproductions of protective packaging material for fruits, vegetables, and headphones, interspersed with collected images of armour. The sense of a fossilised present offers a new(...)
Batia Suter: Exosphere
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Swiss-born, Amsterdam-based artist Batia Suter presents a recent project in which she deals in a humorous and indirect way with the fundamentals of sculpture. The book is comprised of reproductions of protective packaging material for fruits, vegetables, and headphones, interspersed with collected images of armour. The sense of a fossilised present offers a new perspective on the artist’s phylogenetic approach to imagery and her appreciation of unintentional beauty.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Un projet tricontinental d'exposition et de publication qui prend la forme d'une monographie multi-auteurs pour présenter un artiste, figure majeure de l'art contemporain au Maroc, dont le travail crée un espace de connexion avec soi (être ici et maintenant). Publiée en français, en anglais et en arabe, co-éditée par le Smith College Museum of Art et Zamân Books &(...)
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June 2024
Younès Rahmoun : Ici et maintenant
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Un projet tricontinental d'exposition et de publication qui prend la forme d'une monographie multi-auteurs pour présenter un artiste, figure majeure de l'art contemporain au Maroc, dont le travail crée un espace de connexion avec soi (être ici et maintenant). Publiée en français, en anglais et en arabe, co-éditée par le Smith College Museum of Art et Zamân Books & Curating, cette monographie comprend des contributions de chercheurs, directeurs de musées et scientifiques constituant ainsi un apport significatif à l'histoire de l'art contemporain avec notamment des essais d'Emma Chubb et de l'écrivain et poète Omar Berrada. L'ouvrage est organisé en trois mouvements entre les polarités actives dans le travail de Younès Rahmoun : Migration/Enracinement, Unique/Multiple et Ici/Ailleurs, mettant ainsi en avant les thèmes majeurs de son travail qui vise l'universel.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Initié par l'artiste, l'architecte et scénographe tunisien Chedly Atallah, dont la pratique explore les changements géopolitiques dans le monde arabe à travers l'Histoire, l'architecture et les récits mythologiques, ''Matar, Matar, Matar'' est un travail sur le temps de la représentation et de la mémoire, une enquête artistique au cours de laquelle histoires de vie, passé(...)
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July 2024
Chedly Atallah: Matar, Matar, Matar
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Initié par l'artiste, l'architecte et scénographe tunisien Chedly Atallah, dont la pratique explore les changements géopolitiques dans le monde arabe à travers l'Histoire, l'architecture et les récits mythologiques, ''Matar, Matar, Matar'' est un travail sur le temps de la représentation et de la mémoire, une enquête artistique au cours de laquelle histoires de vie, passé et actualités s'entrecroisent, autour de l'eau pour métaphore du souvenir.
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Partant du manifeste écrit en 1968, ''Casa ideale'' explore la portée poétique de l'œuvre de Pier Paolo Calzolari : un texte programmatique qui devient le vecteur d'une série d'idées qui orientent la pratique de l'artiste, en précisant clairement ses intentions et en ouvrant la voie à de multiples interprétations. Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition du même nom au NMNM(...)
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July 2024
Pier Paolo Calzolari: Casa ideale
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Partant du manifeste écrit en 1968, ''Casa ideale'' explore la portée poétique de l'œuvre de Pier Paolo Calzolari : un texte programmatique qui devient le vecteur d'une série d'idées qui orientent la pratique de l'artiste, en précisant clairement ses intentions et en ouvrant la voie à de multiples interprétations. Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition du même nom au NMNM - Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, cet ouvrage offre un large aperçu des recherches de Calzolari, retraçant les moments clés d'une carrière qui a marqué aussi bien les fondements de l'Arte Povera que ceux de l'art conceptuel. À travers des reproductions d'œuvres et de performances historiques, une nouvelle série de dessins inédits et un recueil de textes commandés spécialement pour l'occasion, le livre offre une occasion rare de découvrir l'univers de Pier Paolo Calzolari, connu pour ses approches non conventionnelles des différentes formes d'arts visuels.
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A book about Ray
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Ray Johnson (1927-1995), a.k.a. "New York's most famous unknown artist," was notorious for the elaborate games he played with the institutions of the art world, soliciting their attention even as he rejected their invitations. In A Book about Ray, Ellen Levy offers a comprehensive study of the artist who turned the business of career-making into a tongue-in-cheek(...)
A book about Ray
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Ray Johnson (1927-1995), a.k.a. "New York's most famous unknown artist," was notorious for the elaborate games he played with the institutions of the art world, soliciting their attention even as he rejected their invitations. In A Book about Ray, Ellen Levy offers a comprehensive study of the artist who turned the business of career-making into a tongue-in-cheek performance, tracing his artistic development from his arrival at Black Mountain College in 1945 to his death in 1995. Levy describes Johnson's practice as one that was constantly shifting—whether in tone, in its address to potential audiences, or among three primary artistic modes: collage, performance, and correspondence art.
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What black is this you say?
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"What black is this you say?", by Amanda Williams, convenes a broad set of contributors to respond to her own eponymous public artwork at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City (2021–2023). In this collection, the 17 colors and captions that appeared on the facade of Storefront—the project began as a series of Instagram posts of different hues of black,(...)
What black is this you say?
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"What black is this you say?", by Amanda Williams, convenes a broad set of contributors to respond to her own eponymous public artwork at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City (2021–2023). In this collection, the 17 colors and captions that appeared on the facade of Storefront—the project began as a series of Instagram posts of different hues of black, paired with witty and incisive comments on the multiplicity of Black culture—are expounded upon in poems, essays, and prose. With this anthology, Williams deliberately departs from traditional art criticism by gathering an intimate ensemble of her peers, friends, and collaborators, including Roxane Gay, Corinne Bailey Rae, and J Wortham, to comment on her work.
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