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Occult practices, seances and magic have traditionally been met with suspicion in the world of high culture, but they are currently getting a fresh look. Turns out, they have long had a quiet influence on art--at least since the mid-1800s. The Message demonstrates this fascinating history with paranormal-influenced paintings, drawings and thought photographs, a term for(...)
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March 2008, Köln
The Message: Art and Occultism
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Occult practices, seances and magic have traditionally been met with suspicion in the world of high culture, but they are currently getting a fresh look. Turns out, they have long had a quiet influence on art--at least since the mid-1800s. The Message demonstrates this fascinating history with paranormal-influenced paintings, drawings and thought photographs, a term for the phenomenon of imprinting an image from one's mind directly onto a photographic medium--something we've all at least wished we could do... By the early eighteenth century, the occult had found a home in the arts with the advent of Surrealism--in 1933, Andre Breton discussed these inexplicable phenomena in his text, The Automatic Message. This publication borrows its name from Breton's text; and features early-twentieth-century photographs of seances from the archive of parapsychologist Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, which vividly illustrate Breton's ideas
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Nicosia/ this week
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This alternative guide to the city of Nicosia, Cyprus, was produced to accompany Manifesta 6. Following the biennial’s abrupt cancellation in 2006, This Week has now become one of the few historical records of a great event that never happened. With contributions by the three curators, and others.
Art Theory
March 2008, Rotterdam
Nicosia/ this week
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This alternative guide to the city of Nicosia, Cyprus, was produced to accompany Manifesta 6. Following the biennial’s abrupt cancellation in 2006, This Week has now become one of the few historical records of a great event that never happened. With contributions by the three curators, and others.
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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.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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The woven/Intersected/Reciewed series, gathering preparatory material, documentation on the works, and essays by critics or the artists themselves, these volumes contribute a discussion around commissioning, the notions of public vs. private collection, and the relationship between artists and patrons. Liam Gillick’s book shows the realization of his designs in(...)
Liam Gillick. Woven/Intersected/Revised
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The woven/Intersected/Reciewed series, gathering preparatory material, documentation on the works, and essays by critics or the artists themselves, these volumes contribute a discussion around commissioning, the notions of public vs. private collection, and the relationship between artists and patrons. Liam Gillick’s book shows the realization of his designs in conference rooms, corridors, and offices, coinciding with his sustained interest in the negotiation of a middle ground between corporate culture and contemporary art. The volume is accompanied by an artist’s essay discussing the dissolution of the public/private dichotomy into a grey zone of semi-public/semi-private spheres.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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The Frankfurt am Main Staedelschule, and its gallery Portikus, form a leading international center for experimental contemporary art. The Staedelschule was founded in 1817 by Johann Friedrich Staedel for the purpose of introducing students to his prodigous art collection. This publication is authored by contemporary Staedelschule professors and visiting lecturers,(...)
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March 2008, Frankfurt, Cologne, Manchester, New York
Kunst lehren / Teaching art : Staedelschule Frankfurt/Main
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The Frankfurt am Main Staedelschule, and its gallery Portikus, form a leading international center for experimental contemporary art. The Staedelschule was founded in 1817 by Johann Friedrich Staedel for the purpose of introducing students to his prodigous art collection. This publication is authored by contemporary Staedelschule professors and visiting lecturers, including Pamela Lee, Niklas Maak, Jan Verwoert and Okwui Enwezor, who discuss what teaching art means in the context of a contemporary academy, and at what point the art market should be introduced in a student's education. It serves as an example of the kind of discourse available to Staedelschule students, as there is always in residence an impressive international cast of artworld practitioners. This volume is not only functional, however; it also includes a series of new photographs, produced especially for this project, by Wolfgang Tillmans.
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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(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
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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Mike Meiré The FARM project
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Curator Mike Meiré designed and produced this amazing installation/performance space/working farm kitchen--featuring everything from a lamb pen to major appliances to feast equipment--for Skulptur Projekte Münster 07. It celebrated the quintessential site of living, making and sensuality; a site between functionality and emotion; a site of creation.
Mike Meiré The FARM project
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Curator Mike Meiré designed and produced this amazing installation/performance space/working farm kitchen--featuring everything from a lamb pen to major appliances to feast equipment--for Skulptur Projekte Münster 07. It celebrated the quintessential site of living, making and sensuality; a site between functionality and emotion; a site of creation.
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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(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
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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