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The Slovak artist Jana Želibská’s (b. Olomouc, former Czechoslovakia, 1941; lives and works in Bratislava, Slovakia) output ranges from fine art prints, drawings, paintings, objects, and videos to environments, conceptual art, installations, and intermedia art. She first emerged as a major figure on Slovakia’s independent art scene, which embraced conceptual and(...)
Jana Želibská : Discovery of Possibility
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The Slovak artist Jana Želibská’s (b. Olomouc, former Czechoslovakia, 1941; lives and works in Bratislava, Slovakia) output ranges from fine art prints, drawings, paintings, objects, and videos to environments, conceptual art, installations, and intermedia art. She first emerged as a major figure on Slovakia’s independent art scene, which embraced conceptual and performative approaches, in the 1960s. Her confidence and progressive convictions speak from her early installations, which candidly address erotic desire and shatter patriarchal structures. The female body stands at the center of Želibská’s immersive environments and paintings. She likes to toy with the audience’s voyeuristic desire, integrating mirrors where one would expect to see female genitalia and veiling parts of the body with curtains. "Jana Želibská—Discovery of Possibility" is the artist’s first solo exhibition outside Slovakia after she made her international debut in the shared pavilion of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. The accompanying catalogue is the first publication on her oeuvre in the German-speaking countries and includes contributions by Nathalie Hoyos, Lucia Gregorová Stach, Rainald Schuhmacher, and Alfred Weidinger.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Paul Hutchinson’s work (b. Berlin, 1987; lives and works in Berlin) conveys an intimate and unvarnished perspective, rendering the imperfections, incidental details, and human facets of urban culture. Fleeting moments and encounters often act as a base for his critical photographic practice. The central protagonists in his most recent project, titled Stadt für Alle(...)
Paul Hutchinson: Stadt fur alle
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Paul Hutchinson’s work (b. Berlin, 1987; lives and works in Berlin) conveys an intimate and unvarnished perspective, rendering the imperfections, incidental details, and human facets of urban culture. Fleeting moments and encounters often act as a base for his critical photographic practice. The central protagonists in his most recent project, titled Stadt für Alle (transl. City for All), are countless cranes, excavators, and construction signs. They are the tools that power the remaking of any city’s urban fabric – here Berlin mostly sets the example. Building pits constitute the foundation for farewells and new beginnings. Advertising banners for luxury developments vie against protest placards hanging limply on the façades of older buildings. The artist has compiled a pictorial atlas that prompts reflections on the transformation of the city and thereby gives form to the advancing gentrification, the constant feeling of threat and the increasing loss of inner-city street culture. Hutchinson’s writing complements the deft visual analysis of these processes: "The way you look at me, smiling while I’m losing my vision" is one such observation that, in conjunction with his images, opens up a space for interpretation and a probing inquiry into what urban life will mean in the future.
Photography monographs
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The photographer Christine Erhard’s (b. Crailsheim, 1969; lives and works in Düsseldorf) work delves into the history of the depiction of architecture, and specifically of early-twentieth-century German modernism and constructivist and brutalist structures. Her compositions are inspired by archival research, in which she unearths photographs that typically show(...)
Christine Erhard: Building images
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The photographer Christine Erhard’s (b. Crailsheim, 1969; lives and works in Düsseldorf) work delves into the history of the depiction of architecture, and specifically of early-twentieth-century German modernism and constructivist and brutalist structures. Her compositions are inspired by archival research, in which she unearths photographs that typically show architectonic spaces, modernist buildings, or cityscapes. These two-dimensional images often become models for plastic constructions, which are themselves photographed so that different levels of reflection and reality overlap. In exhibitions, Erhard arranges her pictures in installations that transpose them back into three dimensions, for a vivid experience of the dialectical interplay between depiction and physical space. The photographic image emerges in these installations as a body hovering between flat ornament, the illusion of depth, and sculptural presence.
Photography monographs
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The artist Sandra Schlipkoeter (b. Solingen, Germany, 1979; lives and works in Berlin) uses the concept of interference as an umbrella term for her extensive oeuvre, which spans the media of painting, sculpture, and installation art. She studied at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Art with Eberhard Havekost, who had a profound influence on her as she devised her own(...)
Sandra Schlipkoeter: Interferenzen
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The artist Sandra Schlipkoeter (b. Solingen, Germany, 1979; lives and works in Berlin) uses the concept of interference as an umbrella term for her extensive oeuvre, which spans the media of painting, sculpture, and installation art. She studied at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Art with Eberhard Havekost, who had a profound influence on her as she devised her own photorealistic visual language. Interferences of natural and digital light she engenders using photography and then reproduces by painterly means have been central to her work since 2012; she translates them into oil paintings, cut-outs made from fabric-like structures, and installations. Experimenting with the diverse manifestations of light and variously cutting up, superimposing, and contorting materials such as mirror foil or paper, she creates visual universes that brim with energy. The monograph "Interferenzen" presents her output of the past ten years. With essays by Gisela Elbracht-Iglhaut and Thomas Kuhn and a conversation with the artist by Anna Matzek.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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In his work the photographer and video artist Nuno Cera (b. Beja, Portugal, 1972; lives and works in Lisbon) operates at the intersection of art and documentary to address fundamental forms of change: natural, spatial and temporal. His long-term research projects involve different agents and collaborators, including scientists, actors, writers and critics. His work has(...)
Nuno Cera: My light / Minha luz
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In his work the photographer and video artist Nuno Cera (b. Beja, Portugal, 1972; lives and works in Lisbon) operates at the intersection of art and documentary to address fundamental forms of change: natural, spatial and temporal. His long-term research projects involve different agents and collaborators, including scientists, actors, writers and critics. His work has been published internationally, exhibited and commissioned by multiple cultural institutions and exhibition platforms."My Light / Minha Luz" is Nuno Cera’s first comprehensive monograph and focusses on recent series such as My Light, Acid Flamingo, Infinite Window, and Cosmic Debris. With contributions by Julia Albani, Susana Ventura, Jeff Wood, and Daniel Zamarbide.
Photography monographs
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Drawing is a form of research, a means to investigate, explore and gain a better understanding of an idea, a condition or a phenomenon. Drawing is a practice of representation, one that inquires, explores materiality, and establishes its own time and dialogue. This book brings together 23 authors who represent 18 critical and reflexive practices of drawing in design. The(...)
—in drawing: Inquiry, time, dialogue, materiality
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Drawing is a form of research, a means to investigate, explore and gain a better understanding of an idea, a condition or a phenomenon. Drawing is a practice of representation, one that inquires, explores materiality, and establishes its own time and dialogue. This book brings together 23 authors who represent 18 critical and reflexive practices of drawing in design. The assembled texts engage drawing aesthetics (spatial, temporal, and material) and drawing ethics (investigating and making sense together) as well as four overarching themes: inquiry, time, dialogue and materiality —in drawing. Taken as a collective conversation on drawing practice, this book offers a shared reflection on the agency of drawing, on its potential to explore issues raised by our built and cultural environment, and on the ability of drawing to support and contribute to design research. It farmes drawing as a research practice, one that is both deeply rooted in its disciplinary context and openly challenging its limits and conventions. "—in drawing" adds to a continuing conversation on design research methods and the ethics and aesthetics of representation. It seeks to further establish the significance of drawing as a legitimate mode of inquiry across design disciplines and beyond.
Design Theory
Ce que disent les pierres
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En octobre 2020, la tempête Alex s’est abattue dans les Alpes-Maritimes. Des intempéries phénoménales ont donné lieu à des inondations et des coulées de laves torrentielles dans les vallées de la Vésubie et de la Roya. Dans le cadre du programme Mondes nouveaux du Ministère de la Culture, la romancière Colombe Boncenne en association avec l’artiste/designer David Enon, et(...)
Ce que disent les pierres
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En octobre 2020, la tempête Alex s’est abattue dans les Alpes-Maritimes. Des intempéries phénoménales ont donné lieu à des inondations et des coulées de laves torrentielles dans les vallées de la Vésubie et de la Roya. Dans le cadre du programme Mondes nouveaux du Ministère de la Culture, la romancière Colombe Boncenne en association avec l’artiste/designer David Enon, et cinq autres artistes-auteurs, le sculpteur Julien Berthier, la chorégraphe Julie Desprairies, le musicien Charles Dubois, l’architecte Laure Dezeuze et la sociologue Livia Velpry, ont été invités à venir poser et croiser leurs regards sur cet événement et ses stigmates. Après deux temps de résidence à Saint-Martin Vésubie, ils y ont créé et produit ensemble un événement de trois jours en s’inspirant du conte populaire traditionnel « La soupe aux cailloux » qui a servi de terreau à une fiction écrite collectivement.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Les bâtisseurs inconnus d'Angkor Vat comme ceux de la mosquée Asa'ir, à Zabid, ont en commun avec ceux de l'abbaye Notre-Dame de Sénanque une même soif de transcendance. Leurs édifices nous parlent de Dieu. Partout, ils nous questionnent sur notre rapport à la mort et notre perception de l'au-delà. Que se passe-t-il en nous lorsque nous pénétrons dans un espace sacré ?(...)
Comprendre l'architecture sacrée : l'incadescence de l'ombre
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Les bâtisseurs inconnus d'Angkor Vat comme ceux de la mosquée Asa'ir, à Zabid, ont en commun avec ceux de l'abbaye Notre-Dame de Sénanque une même soif de transcendance. Leurs édifices nous parlent de Dieu. Partout, ils nous questionnent sur notre rapport à la mort et notre perception de l'au-delà. Que se passe-t-il en nous lorsque nous pénétrons dans un espace sacré ? D'où vient notre émotion, notre trouble ou notre émerveillement ? Sous tous les horizons, nous sommes fascinés par ce qui s'exprime dans la lumière, la pierre et le bois : l'incandescence de l'ombre. C'est cette fascination que Vincent Borie décrypte en convoquant l'espace des temples égyptiens, la chapelle de Ronchamp de Le Corbusier, les proportions idéales de Piero della Francesca, les églises de Mario Botta ou de Tadao Ando. Le suivre est une aventure qui nous mène du profane au sacré.
Architectural Theory
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En livrant une généalogie de la pensée écologique dans les sciences sociales et en l’illustrant par une série d’enquêtes, cet ouvrage défend trois approches complémentaires de l’étude des milieux de vie humains. Il revient, d’abord, à Chicago, aux origines de l’écologie humaine, quand ont été forgés les premiers outils d’analyse statistique et cartographique des(...)
Écologie humaine : Une science sociale des milieux de vie
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En livrant une généalogie de la pensée écologique dans les sciences sociales et en l’illustrant par une série d’enquêtes, cet ouvrage défend trois approches complémentaires de l’étude des milieux de vie humains. Il revient, d’abord, à Chicago, aux origines de l’écologie humaine, quand ont été forgés les premiers outils d’analyse statistique et cartographique des territoires urbains et suburbains. Il rend compte, ensuite, d’une anthropologie des mondes sociaux, avec leurs espaces de vie et leurs histoires de vie : une série de cas d’étude, de la banlieue parisienne à Bruxelles, Hollywood ou Hambourg, démontre ici la fécondité de cette ethnographie des milieux de vie. Il propose, enfin, une troisième perspective qui combine une sémiologie et une psychologie écologiques. Centrée sur les corps des citadins et les champs d’expérience à leurs entours, elle décrit leurs façons de s’ancrer dans différentes espèces d’espaces, de les percevoir et de les transformer. Ces territoires, lieux d’appropriation, d’expérimentation et de protestation, sont aussi des terrains de conquête et de résistance : l’écologie humaine s’ouvre alors au droit à la ville. Trois perspectives sur l’écologie humaine qui explorent comment les sociétés humaines sculptent leurs milieux de vie.
Humans and cities
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Troisième volet d'une trilogie sur les matériaux, ce volume réunit les contributions des intervenants à la journée d'étude Transparence et légèreté en architecture - Façades, murs-rideaux, enveloppes intelligentes, 1790-2025, organisée le 21 avril 2022 à l'ENSA Paris-Malaquais. Les textes sont organisés en deux sections principales. La première porte sur les matériaux(...)
Transparence et légèreté en architecture : Façades, murs-rideaux, enveloppes intelligentes, 1790-2025
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Troisième volet d'une trilogie sur les matériaux, ce volume réunit les contributions des intervenants à la journée d'étude Transparence et légèreté en architecture - Façades, murs-rideaux, enveloppes intelligentes, 1790-2025, organisée le 21 avril 2022 à l'ENSA Paris-Malaquais. Les textes sont organisés en deux sections principales. La première porte sur les matériaux verre et aluminium et sur les technologies qui leur sont associées. La seconde est consacrée à l'évolution des façades dans l'architecture moderne et contemporaine ; elle met l'accent sur le développement des murs-rideaux et sur les tendances les plus récentes dans la conception des façades translucides, notamment à l'égard des aspects énergétiques dans le contexte de la crise climatique et de la raréfaction des matériaux. Ces deux séquences sont précédées d'un texte introductif et suivies d'un hommage à l'ingénieur irlandais Peter Rice, sous la forme d'un entretien avec deux de ses plus proches collaborateurs, trente ans après sa disparition.
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