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Here is the flip-side of John Chamberlain's well-known crushed car sculptures: his work in foam. Just as revelatory in their formal sophistication, these works, primarily made from 1966 to 1970, with a few made in the late 1970s and early 1980s, boggle the eye with their simplicity. To make them, Chamberlain looped rope around a mass of plain or painted urethane foam and(...)
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March 2008, Texas
John Chamberlain The Foam Sculpture
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Here is the flip-side of John Chamberlain's well-known crushed car sculptures: his work in foam. Just as revelatory in their formal sophistication, these works, primarily made from 1966 to 1970, with a few made in the late 1970s and early 1980s, boggle the eye with their simplicity. To make them, Chamberlain looped rope around a mass of plain or painted urethane foam and tightened it to create dynamic tensions, which resulted in seductively rounded volumes. These sculptures are essential to Chamberlain's oeuvre, and this is the first publication to address them. Its first section is based on the Marfa, Texas, Chinati Foundation exhibition of 2005-2006, with installation shots and photographs of each exhibited piece; the second section assembles a total of 85 foam sculptures, constituting an almost complete catalogue of this group, and an update to Chamberlain's catalogue raisonne of 1986. Essays by Klaus Kertess, Iris Winkelmeyer and Marianne Stockebrand treat the sculptures in the larger context of Chamberlain's oeuvre and discuss the issue of conservation.
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Foreword by Ann Philbin. Edited and with text by Russell Ferguson. The Politics of Rehearsal accompanies the first large-scale American museum exhibit on Francis Alys, one of the most acclaimed artists working today. The centerpiece of the book is Alys' Rehearsal (Ensayo) series, but a number of related earlier works are included. "Ensayo 1, 1999-2000" shows a red(...)
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February 2008, Los Angeles
Francis Alys. The politics of rehearsal
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Foreword by Ann Philbin. Edited and with text by Russell Ferguson. The Politics of Rehearsal accompanies the first large-scale American museum exhibit on Francis Alys, one of the most acclaimed artists working today. The centerpiece of the book is Alys' Rehearsal (Ensayo) series, but a number of related earlier works are included. "Ensayo 1, 1999-2000" shows a red Volkswagen Beetle attempting to ascend a steep hill in Tijuana: its attempts are synchronized with the sound track of Mexican danzon musicians rehearsing. "Ensayo 2, 2005" follows the rehearsal of a dancer practicing a striptease, and "Ensayo 3" will be produced by Alys specifically for the exhibition. Other works include "When Faith Moves Mountains" and "Song for Lupita," as well as many paintings, photographs and drawings. This significant new publication contains a DVD and an in-depth exploration of Alys's oeuvre by Russell Ferguson, organizer of the exhibition, focusing on the theme of rehearsal, which is so characteristic of Alys' work.
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Monographie / livre d'artiste sous couverture transparente imprimée : reproduction sur papier glacé de 3 séries de printer drawings, réalisés à partir de pages de livres d’art ; texte de Vincent Pécoil. Né en 1972 à Hammond, Indiana, Wade Guyton vit et travaille à New York. Ses œuvres assument la structure et l’apparence de peintures au sens traditionnel du terme, et(...)
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October 2007, Lyon
Wade Guyton - La salle de bains
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Monographie / livre d'artiste sous couverture transparente imprimée : reproduction sur papier glacé de 3 séries de printer drawings, réalisés à partir de pages de livres d’art ; texte de Vincent Pécoil. Né en 1972 à Hammond, Indiana, Wade Guyton vit et travaille à New York. Ses œuvres assument la structure et l’apparence de peintures au sens traditionnel du terme, et réalisent pourtant un bouleversement complet des codes du modernisme. Elle sont produites à l’aide de très grandes imprimantes jet d’encre dans lesquelles Guyton fait passer plusieurs fois la toile pour y imprimer des motifs et lettrages dont les erreurs, les coulures et les défauts d’impression font partie du programme général de composition.
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Daniel Buren
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This volume collects recent works by the French conceptualist known for his site specific installations involving stripes--on land, air and sea. From New York's Guggenheim Museum to Beijing's Temple of Heaven, the Venice Architecture Biennale and the gardens of Versaille, Buren's interventions create amazing complex appropriated spatial structures.
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March 2008, London
Daniel Buren
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This volume collects recent works by the French conceptualist known for his site specific installations involving stripes--on land, air and sea. From New York's Guggenheim Museum to Beijing's Temple of Heaven, the Venice Architecture Biennale and the gardens of Versaille, Buren's interventions create amazing complex appropriated spatial structures.
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This volume documents the New York-based, Swiss conceptual artist’s recent intervention - a planted basin, which he placed inside the reservoir of Vienna’s famous Melk seminary. The selection of plants calls up the notion of hortus conclusus or "small paradise garden". This volume includes research materials, sketches, models, installation photographs, an index of the(...)
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March 2008, Köln
Christian Philipp Müller : the New World, a sort of locus amoenus / Melk
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This volume documents the New York-based, Swiss conceptual artist’s recent intervention - a planted basin, which he placed inside the reservoir of Vienna’s famous Melk seminary. The selection of plants calls up the notion of hortus conclusus or "small paradise garden". This volume includes research materials, sketches, models, installation photographs, an index of the plant varieties of 'The new woeld', recipes, biography, and an index auf the authors, which are Burkhard Hofer, Katharina Blass-Pratscher, Brigitte Huck, Thomas Trummer, Heike Maier-Rieper, Sonja Wunderer and Bernd Kajtna.
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Monika Sosnowska. Loop
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Text by Will Bradley, Adam Budak, Friedemann Malsch, Jan Verwoert, Anthony Vidler. Monika Sosnowska was born in 1972 in Ryki, Poland. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, and currently she lives and works in Warsaw. She represented Poland at last year's art Biennale in Venice. In her installations that echo the formal(...)
Monika Sosnowska. Loop
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Text by Will Bradley, Adam Budak, Friedemann Malsch, Jan Verwoert, Anthony Vidler. Monika Sosnowska was born in 1972 in Ryki, Poland. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, and currently she lives and works in Warsaw. She represented Poland at last year's art Biennale in Venice. In her installations that echo the formal language of constructivist avant-garde, minimal and conceptual tendencies of the 60s and the 70s as well as a heritage of modernist architecture, Monika Sosnowska constructs a physical and conceptual labyrinth, a post-narrative, inner world of spatiality, staged in a sequence of interventions that emphasize spaces virtualities and potentials.
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Fault on the right side
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The rising Glasgow artist Claire Barclay creates beautifully composed sculptural installations that balance chaos and control in equal but precarious measure. This volume documents her recent exhibition at the Kunstverein Braunschweig, featuring works in wood, leather, brass, mirror and fabric.
Fault on the right side
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The rising Glasgow artist Claire Barclay creates beautifully composed sculptural installations that balance chaos and control in equal but precarious measure. This volume documents her recent exhibition at the Kunstverein Braunschweig, featuring works in wood, leather, brass, mirror and fabric.
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Tom Burr. Moods
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Text by Anke Kempkes. This witty exhibition catalogue collects Burrs recent installation at the Vienna Secession. Sculptural and collaged works create an assemblage that oscillates between interior architectural elements, catwalk and abstract form. The titles of the works and the objects themselves refer to personalities like Jean Cocteau and Truman Capote. "Artful Acts(...)
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January 2008, Vienne
Tom Burr. Moods
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Text by Anke Kempkes. This witty exhibition catalogue collects Burrs recent installation at the Vienna Secession. Sculptural and collaged works create an assemblage that oscillates between interior architectural elements, catwalk and abstract form. The titles of the works and the objects themselves refer to personalities like Jean Cocteau and Truman Capote. "Artful Acts and renderings. Aesthetic blurs and blending in Aging frown and Aging grin. And, endless idle chattering."
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This first monograph devoted to the work of the influential and transgressive New York City painter of all things excessive, queer, abject, kitsch and twisted features selected works from 1994-2004--including drawings, paintings, collages and installations. Eisenman's work runs the gamut of visual references from Surrealism to Pointillism to WPA murals to name but a few,(...)
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January 2008
Nicole Eisenman selected works: 1994-2004
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This first monograph devoted to the work of the influential and transgressive New York City painter of all things excessive, queer, abject, kitsch and twisted features selected works from 1994-2004--including drawings, paintings, collages and installations. Eisenman's work runs the gamut of visual references from Surrealism to Pointillism to WPA murals to name but a few, deftly moving from orgiastic crowds to Dionysian sacrifices, minotaur hunts and romps through art history and pop culture. Yet the wit and scope of Eisenman's vision often disguise the intimacy of her work. Here, cliches are turned inside out, gender roles are questioned, and one is engaged without fully realizing that the lushly painted scenes are always revealing something very personal. Features an essay by the painter Amy Sillman, a "panel discussion" between some of Eisenman's paintings by Matt Sharpe, and a biography.
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Text by Philipp Kaiser, Polly Staple, Karl Holmqvist, Interview by Helena Selder. The video works of the Swedish artist and 2007 Documenta participant Johanna Billing, born in 1973, occupy an unusual terrain between documentary and staged scientific experiment. Billing depicts the rituals of society by filming, for example, a group of young people as they reconstruct a(...)
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February 2008, Basel/Dundee
Johanna Billing. Look behind us, a blue sky
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Text by Philipp Kaiser, Polly Staple, Karl Holmqvist, Interview by Helena Selder. The video works of the Swedish artist and 2007 Documenta participant Johanna Billing, born in 1973, occupy an unusual terrain between documentary and staged scientific experiment. Billing depicts the rituals of society by filming, for example, a group of young people as they reconstruct a long-forgotten experiment, or a group of artists singing a melancholy ballad together in a gesture of solidarity. By focusing on the dialectical interplay between the individual and the community, Billing reveals processes of social erosion--but without asserting emphatic judgment of these processes. The artists video works--among them the well-known works You Don't Love Me Yet (2003) and Magical World (2005)--have been shown in many international group exhibitions, but this publication is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of her profoundly atmospheric productions.
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