Ruth Asawa: Life's work
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Throughout her long and prolific career American artist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) developed innovative sculptures in wire, a medium she explored through increasingly complex forms using craft-based techniques she learned while traveling in Mexico in 1947. In 1949, after studying at Black Mountain College, Asawa moved to San Francisco and created dozens of wire works, among(...)
Ruth Asawa: Life's work
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Throughout her long and prolific career American artist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) developed innovative sculptures in wire, a medium she explored through increasingly complex forms using craft-based techniques she learned while traveling in Mexico in 1947. In 1949, after studying at Black Mountain College, Asawa moved to San Francisco and created dozens of wire works, among them an iconic bronze fountain for the city's Ghirardelli Square. Bringing together examples from across Asawa's career, this volume serves as a reorientation of her sculptures within the historical context of 20th-century art. In particular, it includes careful consideration of Asawa's advocacy for arts education in public schools, while simultaneously focusing on her vital—and long under-recognized—contributions to the field of sculpture.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Internationally renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) transformed over 300 sites across New York City into a compelling, ambitious public art exhibition concerned with the global refugee and migration crises.''Good Fences Make Good Neighbors'' consisted of immersive large-scale sculptures for city monuments, fences on building facades and bus stops, and(...)
Ai Weiwei: Good fences make good neighbors
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Internationally renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) transformed over 300 sites across New York City into a compelling, ambitious public art exhibition concerned with the global refugee and migration crises.''Good Fences Make Good Neighbors'' consisted of immersive large-scale sculptures for city monuments, fences on building facades and bus stops, and portraits of refugees and immigrants displayed on outdoor banners. This publication documents the project from conception to final installation, giving a behind-the-scenes look at the research, preparatory drawings, planning, and fabrication that brought it to life.
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François Morellet
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This in-depth exploration of celebrated French artist François Morellet (1926–2016) showcases his diverse oeuvre, famous for infusing systematic and rigorous experimentation with humor and playfulness. Morellet’s interest in kinetic and optical effects spurred work that engages viewers’ perception and participation, ensuring an element of chance within his predetermined(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
November 2019
François Morellet
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This in-depth exploration of celebrated French artist François Morellet (1926–2016) showcases his diverse oeuvre, famous for infusing systematic and rigorous experimentation with humor and playfulness. Morellet’s interest in kinetic and optical effects spurred work that engages viewers’ perception and participation, ensuring an element of chance within his predetermined systems and challenging the convention of the artistic genius. This book features new scholarship by an international group of renowned art historians and curators. Essays explore topics such as the conceptual stakes of Morellet’s practice, the influence of Brazilian geometric abstraction and the Islamic decorative tradition, and the role of humor in his work.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Un siècle de banlieue japonaise apporte une réflexion inédite sur les processus d’urbanisation de l’une des sociétés de consommation les plus avancées de la planète, dans un pays dont la population doit, de surcroît, souvent faire face à des désastres naturels. De la fin du XIXe ?siècle aux temps présents en passant par la crise de Fukushima, l’histoire de la production(...)
Un siècle de banlieue japonaise : au paroxysme de la société de consommation
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Un siècle de banlieue japonaise apporte une réflexion inédite sur les processus d’urbanisation de l’une des sociétés de consommation les plus avancées de la planète, dans un pays dont la population doit, de surcroît, souvent faire face à des désastres naturels. De la fin du XIXe ?siècle aux temps présents en passant par la crise de Fukushima, l’histoire de la production de l’espace nippon retracée ici nous permet de saisir l’évolution du rapport des Japonais à l’urbain et à leur milieu.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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Since the late 1970s, Dutch artist Joke Robaard has accumulated a collection of fashion images—a vast archive of photographs from fashion magazines and other media sources, concentrated on posture, context, background, narrative, image, text and textile. Since 2014, together with art critic Camiel van Winkel, Robaard has been reassembling and rereading her archive to(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
February 2019
Archive species: bodies, habits, practices
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Since the late 1970s, Dutch artist Joke Robaard has accumulated a collection of fashion images—a vast archive of photographs from fashion magazines and other media sources, concentrated on posture, context, background, narrative, image, text and textile. Since 2014, together with art critic Camiel van Winkel, Robaard has been reassembling and rereading her archive to explore the historical, political and social information embedded in these images, and considering how this content emerges in her own artistic and photographic work.
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Erwan Bouroullec : 101
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Un ensemble de dessins réalisés à l'aide d'un logiciel conçu par Erwan Bouroullec, permettant d'extraire des lignes et des couleurs de photographies. Depuis le début des années 2000, le travail de Ronan et Erwan Bouroullec (nés respectivement en 1971 et 1976) apparaît comme l'un des plus représentatifs du dynamisme du design français. Travaillant en duo depuis 1998, les(...)
Erwan Bouroullec : 101
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Un ensemble de dessins réalisés à l'aide d'un logiciel conçu par Erwan Bouroullec, permettant d'extraire des lignes et des couleurs de photographies. Depuis le début des années 2000, le travail de Ronan et Erwan Bouroullec (nés respectivement en 1971 et 1976) apparaît comme l'un des plus représentatifs du dynamisme du design français. Travaillant en duo depuis 1998, les deux frères dessinent aujourd'hui pour de nombreux industriels (Vitra, Kvadrat, Issey Miyake, Cappellini...), tout en poursuivant une activité de recherche expérimentale au sein de la Galerie kreo. Ils ont aussi travaillé sur les projets architecturaux de Camper, Issey Miyake, Kvadrat, etc.
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Jasmina Cibic: NADA
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With her works, the Slovenian artist Jasmina Cibic brings together film, sculpture, performance and installation into multi-layered projects that explore how art, architecture and political rhetoric are deployed and instrumentalised in the name of the nation. The publication presents the artist’s latest film trilogy that was developed in cooperation with the Kunstmuseen(...)
Jasmina Cibic: NADA
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With her works, the Slovenian artist Jasmina Cibic brings together film, sculpture, performance and installation into multi-layered projects that explore how art, architecture and political rhetoric are deployed and instrumentalised in the name of the nation. The publication presents the artist’s latest film trilogy that was developed in cooperation with the Kunstmuseen Krefeld, BALTIC Gateshead, Aarhus, the European Capital of Culture 2017, and MSU Zagreb.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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This monograph documents works by Studio Morison, established in 2003 by British artists Heather Morison and Ivan Morison, known for their large-scale, architectural sculptures in public environments. Texts by curators, architects, sci-fi writers and collaborators accompany the duo’s reflections on each work.
Love me or leave me: the very public art of Heather and Ivan Morison
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This monograph documents works by Studio Morison, established in 2003 by British artists Heather Morison and Ivan Morison, known for their large-scale, architectural sculptures in public environments. Texts by curators, architects, sci-fi writers and collaborators accompany the duo’s reflections on each work.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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This book documents installations of Haus— a 1:15 scale representation of a modern commercial building—by celebrated Swiss duo Peter Fischli (born 1952) and David Weiss (1946–2012). These include the 2016 recreation of the 1987 Skulptur Projekte Münster for the Guggenheim Museum and its permanent installation at Offenen Rennbahn in Zürich.
Peter Fischli. David Weiss: Haus
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This book documents installations of Haus— a 1:15 scale representation of a modern commercial building—by celebrated Swiss duo Peter Fischli (born 1952) and David Weiss (1946–2012). These include the 2016 recreation of the 1987 Skulptur Projekte Münster for the Guggenheim Museum and its permanent installation at Offenen Rennbahn in Zürich.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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In the late 1970s Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) was commissioned by architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to create an artwork for the lobby of a new office building underway in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Kelly responded with one of his most ambitious artworks to date, ''Color Panels for a Large Wall,'' an 18-panel painting executed in two versions. The larger, at(...)
Ellsworth Kelly: Color panels for a large wall
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In the late 1970s Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) was commissioned by architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to create an artwork for the lobby of a new office building underway in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Kelly responded with one of his most ambitious artworks to date, ''Color Panels for a Large Wall,'' an 18-panel painting executed in two versions. The larger, at over 125 feet wide, was the biggest painting he had ever made, and its trajectory would pass through not just Cincinnati but also Amsterdam, New York and Munich before ending up at its permanent home, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, where it has been prominently installed in the I.M. Pei–designed East Building since 2004.The smaller version, over 30 feet wide, remained in the artist's possession. This catalog tells the complete story of these two remarkable paintings.
Contemporary Art Monographs