The Klee universe
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There are artists whose métier is the observation or documentation of the world, and artists who set the world aside altogether to build their own visionary cosmology, designing its constituent parts from scratch as a personal mythology relayed in motifs. Paul Klee (1879-1940) was such an artist, as his aphorism “Art does not reproduce the visible, rather it makes(...)
The Klee universe
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There are artists whose métier is the observation or documentation of the world, and artists who set the world aside altogether to build their own visionary cosmology, designing its constituent parts from scratch as a personal mythology relayed in motifs. Paul Klee (1879-1940) was such an artist, as his aphorism “Art does not reproduce the visible, rather it makes visible” testifies, and The Klee Universe addresses his work from this perspective. In 1906, Klee noted in his diary, "All will be Klee," and in 1911, as the encyclopedist of his cosmos, he began to meticulously chronicle his works in a catalogue that, by the time he died, was to contain more than 9,000 items. Here, in the fashion of an Orbis Pictus or a Renaissance emblem book, Klee's oeuvre is made legible as a cogent entirety, in thematic units address: the human life cycle, from birth and childhood to sexual desire, parenthood and death; music, architecture, theater and religion; plants, animals and landscapes; and, finally, darker, destructive forces in the shape of war, fear and death. The Klee Universe reimagines the artist as a Renaissance man, an artist of great learning whose cosmos proves to be a coherent system of ideas and images.
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Gerhard Richter’s 4900 Colours from 2007 is a major new work consisting of bright monochrome squares that have been randomly arranged in a grid pattern to create stunning fields of kaleidoscopic color. It was produced at the same time he developed his design for the south transept window of Cologne Cathedral, unveiled in August 2007, which is made up of 11,500 handcrafted(...)
janvier 2009, London, Ostfildern
Gerhard Richter : 4900 Colours
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Gerhard Richter’s 4900 Colours from 2007 is a major new work consisting of bright monochrome squares that have been randomly arranged in a grid pattern to create stunning fields of kaleidoscopic color. It was produced at the same time he developed his design for the south transept window of Cologne Cathedral, unveiled in August 2007, which is made up of 11,500 handcrafted squares of glass in seventy-two colors. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Gerhard Richter 4900 colours : version II" held at the Serpentine Gallery, London, 23 September - 16 November 2008.
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Featuring a gold embossed cover, this lovely volume was created in collaboration with Deitch Projects, and presents artist Francesco Clemente's portraits of eight contemporary opera stars who figure prominently in the Metropolitan Opera's 2008-09 season: Diana Damrau, Natalie Dessay, Renée Fleming, Angela Gheorghiu, Susan Graham, Karita Mattila, Anna Netrebko and Deborah(...)
Francesco Clemente: the sopranos text
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Featuring a gold embossed cover, this lovely volume was created in collaboration with Deitch Projects, and presents artist Francesco Clemente's portraits of eight contemporary opera stars who figure prominently in the Metropolitan Opera's 2008-09 season: Diana Damrau, Natalie Dessay, Renée Fleming, Angela Gheorghiu, Susan Graham, Karita Mattila, Anna Netrebko and Deborah Voigt. The results--riveting portraits made within a four-month period--capture each of the divas in character for an upcoming role.
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Released to accompany a major survey at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, this catalogue traces how the classical arts of India, China and Japan and the systems of Hindu, Taoist, Tantric Buddhist and Zen Buddhist thought that were collectively admired as the "East" were known, reconstructed and transformed by American cultural, intellectual and political forces. Featuring(...)
The third mind: american artists contemplate Asia, 1860-1989
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Released to accompany a major survey at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, this catalogue traces how the classical arts of India, China and Japan and the systems of Hindu, Taoist, Tantric Buddhist and Zen Buddhist thought that were collectively admired as the "East" were known, reconstructed and transformed by American cultural, intellectual and political forces. Featuring 270 objects in an array of media including painting, works on paper, books and ephemera, sculptures, video art and installations, this richly illustrated catalogue also includes scholarly essays by museum curators and academics specializing in art history, intellectual history, Asian studies and Postcolonial religious and cultural studies and representing a range of interdisciplinary perspectives.
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For a painter who has so successfully neutralized the declarative potential of his medium, Gerhard Richter has committed to print a surprisingly large amount of discussion on his work. For this new, complete edition of the writings, Richter has placed his private archive at the editor's disposal; most of the photographic material comes from this archive and has not been(...)
Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007
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For a painter who has so successfully neutralized the declarative potential of his medium, Gerhard Richter has committed to print a surprisingly large amount of discussion on his work. For this new, complete edition of the writings, Richter has placed his private archive at the editor's disposal; most of the photographic material comes from this archive and has not been previously published. Includes public statements on specific exhibitions, private reflections drawn from personal correspondence, answers to questions posed by critics and journal excerpts discussing the intentions, methods and subjects of his works from various periods.
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janvier 2009
Cildo Meireles
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An important theme in the Brazilian postwar avant-garde, from which Meireles emerged at the end of the 1960s, was the relationship between the sensual and the cerebral, the body and the mind. Other works play with the sense of space or scale. Fully illustrated, this volume includes 10 short thematic essays by leading scholars - including Moacir dos Anjos, Guy Brett,(...)
Cildo Meireles
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An important theme in the Brazilian postwar avant-garde, from which Meireles emerged at the end of the 1960s, was the relationship between the sensual and the cerebral, the body and the mind. Other works play with the sense of space or scale. Fully illustrated, this volume includes 10 short thematic essays by leading scholars - including Moacir dos Anjos, Guy Brett, Okwui Enwezor, Maaretta Jaukkuri, Bartomeu Mar', Lu Menezes, Suely Rolnik, Sônia Salzstein and Lynn Zelevansky - as well as previously unpublished commentaries on each work by the artist.
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The ongoing relevance of Belgian painter René Magritte may lie in the semiotic character of his work and its ability to create chasms between the world, its surfaces and the signs we use to occupy it. Magritte's paintings offer a space for the viewer to contemplate the emptiness of signs and to locate that emptiness in a world we recognize--indeed, the artist relies on(...)
Magritte: attempting the impossible
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The ongoing relevance of Belgian painter René Magritte may lie in the semiotic character of his work and its ability to create chasms between the world, its surfaces and the signs we use to occupy it. Magritte's paintings offer a space for the viewer to contemplate the emptiness of signs and to locate that emptiness in a world we recognize--indeed, the artist relies on the props of normalcy in order to upend, invert and collapse them into the terra incognita where life leaves off and art begins. This book presents a new definitive Magritte monograph, replacing David Sylvester's volume of the early 1990s. Featuring more than 300 works, it contains much unpublished material and includes chapters covering Magritte's photography, drawings and influence on German and American contemporary art.
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janvier 2009
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Charles Jencks, The language of Post-Modern Architecture, first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh editions.
octobre 2003, New York, Vienna
Half modern, half something else
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Charles Jencks, The language of Post-Modern Architecture, first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh editions.
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Half-Light Alphabet
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Contained in separate catalogues held together by magnets are two bodies of work. The first an alphabet of letters constructed by the artist, and the second, an overview of a diverse body of works recently exhibited at three regional French museums.
Half-Light Alphabet
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Contained in separate catalogues held together by magnets are two bodies of work. The first an alphabet of letters constructed by the artist, and the second, an overview of a diverse body of works recently exhibited at three regional French museums.
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janvier 2009
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Documenting small time adventures and excursions around his house, bike rides through Europe, the vast and unyielding concrete miles of Shanghai and the old paint splattered floor in London where he sometimes sleeps, Nigel Peake's hand-drawn maps blend a healthy mix of order, the fantastical and reality. Both colourful and monotone and always highly detailed, these(...)
Nigel Peake: maps fields, paths, forests, blocks, places and surrounds
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Documenting small time adventures and excursions around his house, bike rides through Europe, the vast and unyielding concrete miles of Shanghai and the old paint splattered floor in London where he sometimes sleeps, Nigel Peake's hand-drawn maps blend a healthy mix of order, the fantastical and reality. Both colourful and monotone and always highly detailed, these cartographic excursions are a fine lesson in liberation from objective rigidity.