Individual artists, art monographs Books
Hatje Cantz Sofie Dawo Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisSofie Dawo (19262010) was one of the most important representatives of Concrete textile art in the second half of the 20th century. Based on the principles of the Bauhaus, but with the courage to experiment, the German artist developed her own artistic position. In a radical departure from traditional weaving designs, she explored the qualities of both tested as well as new materials, often working in series. Dawo's skillful research of the properties of her fabrics and materials allowed her to move beyond the two-dimensionality of the woven surface and create works with a sculptural character. This publication draws on the estate of her long-underrepresented oeuvre, which includes not only woven pieces but also hitherto unseen drawings. Both bodies of work demonstrate the extent to which Sofie Dawo understood her weaving art as an autonomous genre.
£43.50
Hatje Cantz Frederic Clot Digital Multilingual edition
Book SynopsisAgainst the Current of Established Fashions The self-taught artist Frédéric Clot developed a unique way of drawing and painting, mainly in black and white, against the current of established fashions, between figuration and abstraction. In his paintings, etchings and drawings, he has often evoked enigmatic places. His oil paintings trace exemplary how he formed his artistic expression and today depict scenarios that indeed seem to fully correspond with our time: they remind us of something borrowed from the images of our digital age and mass communication. This richly illustrated monograph is the first to encompass the Swiss artist's entire oeuvre to date. It offers an overview of more than 20 years of artistic creation and is complemented by essays by the art historian Karine Tissot, the cultural journalist Arnaud Robert, and the London art critic JJ Charlesworth.
£35.20
Hatje Cantz Herbert Brandl: Spirit Lead Me (Bilingual
Book SynopsisWith Great Gesture Austrian painter Herbert Brandl has established himself as one of the most important representatives of contemporary painting with his large-format, gesturally expressive works. His paintings oscillate between abstraction and figuration, observations of nature are often the focus of his works. His irrepressible creative process and a powerful and experimental use of color characterize his fascinating work. This catalogue documents Herbert Brandl’s exhibition Spirit Lead Me at Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder in Vienna. Hans Ulrich Obrist’s interview and the multifaceted essays by Cathérine Hug and Thomas D. Trummer enable readers to delve even deeper into Brandl’s fascinating work.
£32.00
Hatje Cantz Ugo Rondinone (Bilingual edition): the water is a
Book SynopsisYou Got to Burn to Shine Ugo Rondinone’s 2022 exhibition 'the water is a poem unwritten by the air / no. the earth is a poem unwritten by the fire' at the Petit Palais in Paris explores the theme of transformation. Ugo Rondinone presents three ensembles of sculptures and a monumental video installation. Earth, sky, air, water and fire are invoked in the fullness of their spiritual dimension. Under the museum’s painted ceilings, the first ensemble welcomes visitors in a farandole of suspended bodies painted in a clouded sky camouflage, underlining the ephemeral melding of air and water. A second ensemble is composed of seated sculptures of dancers at rest made from a blend of wax and earth collected from seven continents. The centerpiece artwork titled burn to shine, is a film installation presented in a monumental charred wood cylinder. The artwork depicts bodies coming together throughout movement, with dancers and musicians gathered around a fire in the desert from sunset to sunrise. In echo with John Giorno's poem titled You Got To Burn To Shine. This catalogue is a unique document of the dialogue between Rondinone’s works confronted with the museum’s architecture and its collections.
£32.00
Hatje Cantz Heaven Baek: Platforms of Reality (Bilingual
Book SynopsisPlatforms of Reality examines the oeuvre of a multi-layered analysis and interpretation of Heaven Baek's work, which resonates through the composition of people and society in both reality and on stage. The main content of the book ranges from the artist's early works to her recent practice, where she questions the reality of video timelines and instant realities with a strong sense of immediacy, collective memories, and staged realities. And through these well-scripted performances, she is thus representing the flood of real information that has somehow lost its purpose and meaning. The book is divided into four different chapters, each exploring a different sense of reality. The “platform” is used for both as a stage or, where trains leave from different tracks with different destinations, crossing paths while encountering each other continuously. These platforms may be imagined as stages for her work—bringing together her artistic approaches where Baek attempts to permeate social collectives with her research and artistic methodologies—from drawing to video to installation.
£30.40
Hatje Cantz Gabriele Rothemann Works Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisA single decision is enough to fundamentally, genuinely fundamentally, rethink and change everything. Gabriele Rothemann's photographs do not simply depict an object or a situation, but rather carve out the unseen: a relationship to things long gone, a connection to times past and spaces lost. In each image resonates the reverberation of other images, in each, a wealth of possibilities of how the world can be perceived and represented is condensed. Since 1984, the Vienna-based artist has used the medium of photography in a way that does not freeze the object, but fills it with imaginary life. Rothmann's work revolves around existential questionsespecially the most fundamental of them all: the finitude of life. Often abstract and precise, yet at the same time full of rich detail, her motifs from her series Dead Animals to her Miniatures about Disappearance take on a haunting presence. Thus she appeals to the empathy of her viewers and touches them not least through the sensual qualit
£43.50
Hatje Cantz Christiane Löhr: Symmetries of the Smooth
Book SynopsisA Meticulously Constructed Cosmos of Vegetative Architectures Christiane Löhr creates a unique cosmos of sculptures and installations with materials from nature. Employing airborne seeds, plant stems, burrs, tree blossoms, horse and dog hair for her organic-abstract repertoire of forms, she transforms these ephemeral materials with an element of surprise into precisely constructed sculptures that are both delicate and expansive. In keeping with the comprehensive retrospective, this catalogue is comprised as an anthology: In addition to new texts by Julia Wallner, Jutta Mattern, Astrid von Asten, and Tiziano Scarpa, it brings together insightful essays on the artist’s work from the past decades. The texts are complemented by installation shots of Löhr’s intricate sculptures that create permeable spaces in the light-flooded building of the arp museum Bahnhof Rolandseck designed by Richard Meier.
£38.40
Hatje Cantz Verlag Pedro Wirz Forever Was Today Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisPEDRO WIRZ (*1981, Pindamonhangaba, Brazil) is a Brazilian-Swiss visual artist dealing with the coexistence of different species within an ecosystem. His work has been exhibited at Kunsthalle Basel, Palais de Tokyo, Hessel Museum of Art, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and Kunstverein Dortmund, among others.
£35.20
Hatje Cantz David Stephenson Light Cities
Book SynopsisDavid Stephenson's stunning large format photographs of cities at night across America, Australia and Asia reveal globalized urban sprawl, energy use, and light pollution. These glowing light cities suggest much that is both good and bad in our industrialized society: extraordinary examples of a monumental technological sublime, where awe, beauty, and human aspiration are tinged with the shadow of looming environmental catastrophe, our engine of modernity seemingly running on empty. The accompanying essay by photographic historian Keith F. Davis discusses the evolving idea of the city as a key theme in photography, and what it has symbolized, from the modernist city as an engineering feat, to the after-modernist city as a focus of energy and information.
£35.20
Hatje Cantz Haegue Yang The Cone of Concern
Book SynopsisHaegue Yang: The Cone of Concern documents the first solo exhibition in the Philippines of celebrated Korean artist Haegue Yang, who is known for her unique interweaving of conceptual language and aesthetic vocabulary. The Cone of Concern, which takes its name from a weather forecasting tool that traces the path of an oncoming storm, presents humanity's attempt to confront natural phenomena. The publication draws out the notion of solidarity among those facing difficult circumstances and revisits Yang's complex layering of objectswoven anthropomorphic sculptures, light sculptures, rotating sound bells, whirlwind-derived structures, textile canopies, and sound elementsagainst a lenticular print backdrop of a digitally altered meteorological image.
£32.00
Hatje Cantz The Squares Heart
Book SynopsisThe term concrete art was coined by the Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg in 1930, referring to works of art that are exclusively based on purely plastic elements, such as color, line and plane, thereby forming an independent concrete reality. Accompanied by a new interest in how we perceive and process visual impressions, insights from perception psychology have been artistically explored to create dynamic and 'living' images. Over the past 50 years, the Norwegian art collector Erling Neby has built an extraordinary collection of geometric and concrete art. Encompassing European, American and Nordic art, the main focus is on works from the post-war years, including leading figures such as Victor Vasarely, Max Bill, Auguste Herbin, Josef Albers, Aase Texmon Rygh and Olle Baertling, as well as new generations of artists who, in different ways, use a geometric-abstract form of expression. This catalogue documents a major exhibition at the Kode Art Museum in Bergen featuring more than 100 works from the collection, whichthrough its truly personal selectionoffers a complex picture of artistic positions, and the impact of geometric and concrete art.
£38.40
Hatje Cantz Moki Maander Meander Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisTo be like water, without form, able to adapt to all circumstances this is the ideal of the Berlin-based artist moki. In her paintings, she meanders between timeless escapism and confrontation with the issues of our time. Fiction and reality are blurred in her detailed acrylic paintings. Like a researcher, she explores the subtleties of color in the green-blue spectrum and creates her own cosmos in which the longing for symbiosis becomes visible. Supplemented by numerous texts and an interview, Meander brings together her paintings from 2014 to 2023.
£35.20
Hatje Cantz Verlag The Order of Things French edition
Book SynopsisWim Delvoye (*1965) is a Belgian neo-conceptual artist and sculptor.
£38.40
Hatje Cantz Verlag The Order of Things
Book SynopsisWim Delvoye (*1965) is a Belgian neo-conceptual artist and sculptor.
£38.40
Hatje Cantz Verlag Alberto Garutti
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Hatje Cantz Verlag Alejandro Campins. Viajes de Retorno Return
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Hatje Cantz Christl Mudrak Eros Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisPerformative and participatory painting Christl Mudrak's first monograph publication is dedicated to her complex, often-ephemeral artistic work of the last two decades. The book is both a search for traces and a tracker of an aesthetic practice that eludes the simplistic patterns of art historiography and makes institutional appropriation difficult. In addition to the creation of experiential spaces and participatory-performative painting, Mudrak's work focuses on exploring the potential of collaborative work, based on a deep understanding of the equality of humans, animals, and nature. Through this monograph, Mudrak's elusive art is not only made visible, but can be experienced anew.
£35.20
Hatje Cantz Julia Gaisbacher Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisThe cosmos of Hanne Darboven The publication concludes Julia Gaisbacher's longtime exploration of Hanne Darboven's Kunstlerinnenhaus and at the same time continues her own work on dream houses. The Viennese artist's photographs provide sensitive insights into Hanne Darboven's studios in the south of Hamburg. To this day, the ensemble also functions as a treasury for thousands of objects and artworks. Gaisbacher's precisely composed black-and-white photographs of the rooms, whose seemingly chaotic abundance is also diametrically opposed to the strict order of Darboven's own works on paper, are brought together with color reproductions of the latter's annual art calendars. As such, the book offers an artistic dialog about time and space between the generations.
£38.40
Hatje Cantz Bente Skjøttgaard Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisThis monograph presents Bente Skjøttgaard's experimental work with clay and glaze, spanning nearly 40 years and unfolding a wide range of themes, often inspired by nature. Danish ceramic artist Bente Skjøttgaard is particularly known for her glaze work. She balances on the edge of what is possible, and her explorations evolve into large amorphous nature abstractions, generously glazed. With essays by acclaimed experts in the field such as Christine Germain-Donnat and Garth Johnson as well as artist colleague Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl, and an additional 'photo novel' describing the background and process through images and narrative text, this lavishly illustrated volume sheds light on one of the important figures in the rich ceramicist scene in Denmark.
£38.40
Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH Ilona Keserü. FLOW
Book SynopsisSpectacular colour spaces Hungarian painter Ilona Keserü celebrated her 90th birthday in 2023. With a career spanning seven decades, she is one of the most important abstract artists of the postwar period, to whom this first comprehensive monograph is dedicated. Keserü's painting combines elements of Hungarian folk culture with motifs from European modernism. With an organic-abstract style in bold colors and forms, she set herself apart from the state-prescribed Socialist Realism in the 1950s, the time of the Hungarian Revolution. In the following decade, Keserü began to experiment with different materials and techniques. Motifs alluding to her female identity increasingly came to the foreeven before and independently of the emerging second-wave feminism. The bright colors of her sensual abstractions are always the result of scientific and artistic experimentation.
£36.00
Hatje Cantz Rebekka Steiger Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisIntense visual experiencesIn her paintings, Rebekka Steiger takes us into strange and colorful dream worlds. Sometimes flowery, sometimes eerie, her paintings are characterized by the dialectic of statics and movement. Steiger's pictures show landscapes, trees, and figures, which she combines into unfinished stories that are sometimes reminiscent of myths and legends. Drawing-like brushstrokes and painterly gestures are superimposed on her canvases to create colorful, dense compositions. The artist's first comprehensive monograph entitled Bingfeng is being published to coincide with the exhibition at Kunstmuseum Thun. With a foreword by Helen Hirsch and essays by Claudia Jolles, Patricia Bieder, Sophia Remer, Peter Stohler, Chiara Ottavi and texts by the artist.
£32.00
Hatje Cantz Verlag alia ali...
Book SynopsisYemeni-Bosnian-American artist Alia Ali lives and works between New Orleans, Paris, Marrakech, and Jaipur.
£45.00
Hatje Cantz Alexander von Reiswitz Bilingual edition
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£48.00
Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH Shilpa Gupta. we last met in the mirror
Book SynopsisShilpa Gupta (born 1976, Mumbai) lives and works in Mumbai. From 1992 to 1997, she studied sculpture at the J.J. School of Fine Arts, Mumbai. Gupta's works are exhibited internationally, including at Tate Modern and Serpentine Gallery, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Mori Museum, Tokyo; and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
£30.40
Hatje Cantz Verlag Endless Limits
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Hirmer Verlag Dan Flavin: Drawing
Book SynopsisAlthough Minimalist artist Dan Flavin (1933–1996) is best known for his brightly coloured installations of fluorescent lights, he was also an avid draftsman. This richly illustrated publication is the first to explore the central role drawing played in his art, to include his drawings from nature and to consider excerpts from his journal in which he wrote about his passion for drawing.
£31.96
Hirmer Verlag Hundertwasser: Japan and the Avantgarde
Book SynopsisThe early work of Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000) had a marked impact on the international art scene of the post-war avantgarde. This publication demonstrates the influence of Japanese art and philosophy on the work of Hundertwasser in the 1950s and early 1960s. It is the first juxtaposition of Hundertwasser's work and Japanese art, revealing a less well-known Hundertwasser, preceding much of his architectural work. Like many European artists in the 1950s who perceived the Far East as a new reference point for a more open concept of art, Hundertwasser sought inspiration from Taoism and Zen Buddhism. He was also fascinated by the Japanese woodcuts of Hiroshige and Hokusai. His early friendship with Akira Kito and also his marriage with his Japanese life partner in 1961 during his sojourn in Japan are further links which fuelled Hundertwasser's interest in Japanese art and culture.
£31.96
Hirmer Verlag Benjamin Katz: Georg Baselitz at Work
Book SynopsisBaselitz is one of the most important artists of today. His works can be found in major museums around the world. For over 30 years, photographer Benjamin Katz has been documenting Baselitz at work in different studios. This volume now captures Baselitz's exceptional life at work and at home.
£25.46
Hirmer Verlag Isabella Berr: Walking Dreams
Book SynopsisThe photographic compositions of Isabella Berr are reminiscent of dream sequences frozen in time. Created in public spaces, almost as though in passing, her photographic sets are nevertheless carefully selected and the onlookers who happen to be present unwittingly become actors on her stage.
£36.00
Hirmer Verlag Gunther Gerlach: Sculpture and Space
Book SynopsisGunther Gerlach, born in 1952, has forged a completely new direction in the long tradition of wood sculpture. This publication provides insight into a period of artistic creativity spanning 35 years and characterised by his total dedication to this living material.
£25.46
Hirmer Verlag Roni Horn: Portrait of an Image
Book SynopsisThe work of Roni Horn, born in 1955, was on view in 2009 in a major retrospective at museums including Tate Modern London and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. She explores the subject of changing identities using a wide variety of media, including photography, sculpture, installation, drawing and text. The artist plays with similarities and differences in photographic portraits in particular, sounding out the ambiguity of various human facial expressions. The face becomes a projection screen for an internal dialogue for the viewer.
£13.46
Hirmer Verlag Hans Aichinger: Truth or Duty
Book SynopsisThe oeuvre of the Leipzig-based artist Hans Aichinger (1959) is dedicated to the representational. Figural compositions with a great density of content that can be ascribed to the New Leipzig School are executed in a hyper-realistic manner of painting and virtuoso artistic technique.
£29.71
Hirmer Verlag Rita de Muynck: Under the Skin
Book SynopsisExpressionistic and imbued with colour, the work of Rita De Muynck draws the observer into an autonomous world of experience. Dreams, the vigorous subconscious and synesthesia find sensual expression in her large figurative paintings and witty day and night drawings. This lavishly illustrated book presents her work from 1998 to 2013, accompanied by literary and scientific essays as well as personal contributions. This is the first volume of Rita de Muynck's comprehensive oeuvre which is treading among the tensions of self-induced trance, emotional reality and free colour. Her unique style is characterized by the interconnection of the senses (for example using color to represent sound) and the expression of existential experiences. The sculptures and installations she creates reflect on current circumstances, often with great humor. Born in Belgium Rita De Muynck presently lives in Munich and has a studio in the foothills of the Alps. Her work and performances have been shown, among other places, in Munich, Budapest and Paris.
£25.46
Hirmer Verlag Alexandra Hendrikoff: Metamorphosis
Book SynopsisThe sculptor Alexandra Hendrikoff has created an impressive and innovative artistic language, which is based on and inspired by nature. Her sculptures resemble cocoons, living organisms and other forms and figures found in nature. This monograph presents images of her sculptures for the first time. Two complementary essays introduce her work. In order to create her often freestanding or floating works of art and collages, Hendrikoff uses natural materials such as yarn, wood and seeds. Her sculptures examine the language of nature and thus challenge our technologised and alienated world view. Her works are to be understood as prototypes of life and are produced with great artisanal skills and patience. Alexandra Hendrikoff was born in Bavaria in 1965. She trained as a carpenter before studying sculpture at the Akademie der Kunste (Academy of Fine Arts) in Munich. Her works are exhibited internationally, and in 2011 she was artist in residence at the Escola de Artes Visuais in Rio de Janeiro.
£23.96
Hirmer Verlag Urban Nomads: Winfried Baumann
Book SynopsisWinfried Baumann (born 1956) is an extraordinary artist who works at the interface between art, architecture and design. Since 2001, he has dedicated himself to projects described under the umbrella term Urban Nomads. These are linked to concepts such as mobility, housing, food and transport, designed for all rough sleepers and other neo-nomads. His most recognized venture is called Instant Housing: a collection of miniature mobile living accommodation for those in need of shelter. Other groups of art works are called Instant Cooking, Instant Help and Instant Exhibition. This volume presents the images of Winfried Baumann's social art that prompt questions about human dignity. They are complemented by an exclusive interview with the artist and two essays by specialists in the field. In a time when ways of living are constantly questioned and social mobility is a requirement for all, Baumann's work invites us to reflect on our own lifestyles, and those of others.
£25.46
Hirmer Verlag Horst Thürheimer: Fire and Chalk
Book SynopsisIn "Fire and Chalk" Horst Thurheimer demonstrates his new way of painting, using his innovative techniques. To create his compositions Thurheimer uses not only acrylic paints and paintbrushes, but also fire, via the flame of a Bunsen burner, and various sorts of crayons. This volume provides an overview of his oeuvre, including his most recent works. The seventy colored illustrations in this book offer readers a fascinating insight into the world of a new artistic technique. Through his ability to produce unconventional works of art that go beyond traditional painting method, Thurheimer creates compositions of great elemental beauty. Particularly in his more recent works, Horst Thurheimer's Fire and Chalk show the overlapping of the themes of destruction and healing, each reinforcing the other’s evocative effect, with powerful and moving painterly results. Thurheimer works tirelessly to expand the possibilities of his art to its full potential.
£27.20
Hirmer Verlag Monika Fioreschy: Interwoven Energy
Book SynopsisThe Austrian artist Monika Fioreschy (b. 1947) was in search of new forms of expression when, in the course of observing heart surgery, she was inspired to use an entirely new material for her work, medical grade silicon tubing, which she uses to weave works of art filled with fluids. Injection Art presents more than 50 of these compelling pieces. Trained in the craft of classic Gobelin weaving, Monika Fioreschy first received international recognition for her large-format, abstract and very colourful wall tapestries. Approximately 15 years ago, she began to use, as a new material, medical grade silicon tubing, similar to that used to move fluids to and from the patient during operations. The tubes range in diameter from the very fine, up to the thickness of a finger. After creating the body-like woven works of art, she uses disposable syringes to fill the tubes with various fluids, such as blood, chlorophyll and the juices of fruits and plants to give the appearance of life and thus stimulate and challenge the viewer.
£34.40
Hirmer Verlag My Life with Alexander Archipenko
Book SynopsisModernist sculptor Alexander Archipenko, (born 1887, Kiev; died 1964, New York City) has been called the “Picasso of Sculpture” for the Cubist elements he introduced to create a new way of looking at the human figure. This deeply personal biography written by his artist wife during his last eight years, casts a new light on this extremely productive, innovative, but little-known period of his career. Despite an age difference of nearly fifty years, Frances Gray, a student at his school in Woodstock, New York, formed a deep and lasting companionship with Archipenko, leading to marriage in 1957. Gray paints a rounded picture of a complex and fascinating personality, part artist, part businessman, part spiritual seeker. When the art world turned away from modernism toward Abstract Expressionism, Archipenko’s work fell from critical favour. Archipenko was increasingly plagued by problems with forgeries and fraudulent authentications of his work, and the book casts a new light on his resulting volatile relationships with many dealers, museums and collectors.
£15.30
Hirmer Verlag Daniele Buetti: It's all in the Mind
Book SynopsisOrange, yellow, green, blue – what happens in the human brain when colours are not seen with the physical eye, but instead aurally experienced with one’s ears? This pub lication focuses on a sound installation by the Swiss artist Daniele Buetti commissioned by the Schirn Museum in Frankfurt, which transfers colour theory, meditation and hypnosis into an artistic context. The Swiss conceptual artist Daniele Buetti, born in 1955, is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Münster in Germany. His artistic work spans many media. In the 1990s he rose to fame with his modified photographs of supermodels. His sound installation It’s all in the mind is based on a 25-minute audio performance taking the audience through techniques of hypnosis. In his work, Buetti uses 'colour purification’ techniques of hypnotic suggestion that conjure up different colours and their psychological effects. Interviews with well-known specialists complement this interdisciplinary volume.
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Hirmer Verlag Messensee: Beyond Contradictions
Book SynopsisThe wish to create more than just an image as a mere reflection, more than just art for its own sake: Jürgen Messensee is an artist with many facets, hence it is not always easy to categorise his oeuvre. This beautifully illustrated book about his recent paintings, drawings and sculptures shows the abstract artist in all his versatility and profundity. "I have always tried – at first instinctively, later consciously – to understand the evolving problem of space and spaces, respectively". These are the words of the prize-winning artist Jürgen Messensee (born 1936 in Vienna) who is firmly established within the Austrian contemporary art scene. Questions relating to our existence and to what we think to perceive as our existence are central to his artistic output. This volume includes not only his exploration of time and space but also, his interpretations and meditations on space and spaces. This book is an impressive glimpse at Jürgen Messensee’s philosophy and way of thinking.
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Hirmer Verlag Heinz Mack: Reliefs
Book SynopsisThe sculptural relief technique is an integral part of Heinz Mack’s extensive oeuvre. With his so-called “light-reliefs” he examines what is at the core of his artistic practice: the interaction of light and surface. This publication provides a comprehensive overview of Mack’s reliefs from 1952 to the present day. Heinz Mack, born in 1931, is one of Germany’s most important artists. As the co-founder of the ZERO art movement, he is deeply rooted in the European avant-garde and his oeuvre is an essential part of recent art history. Mack coined the expression “light-relief” as early as 1958. These reliefs play an important role in his wide-ranging work, and they allow him to explore the interplay of light and surface, space and structure, and colour and rhythm. This generously designed volume shows more than 250 works by Heinz Mack, complemented with enlightening articles by renowned art historians.
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Hirmer Verlag Façades: Roland Fischer - Photography
Book SynopsisRoland Fischer’s “Façades” are spectacular photographic pict ures: a visual grammar of architectural structures, an alphabet of abstract forms full of art ‐ historical references. Roland Fischer (b. 1958), whose work is exhibited worldwide in important museums, lives and works in Munich and Beijing. Since the 1990s t he artist has been photographing the exteriors of buildings, of banks, corporate headquarters and museums in the metropolises of the world, including Beijing, Tokyo, Shanghai, New York, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Osaka, Boston, Brasilia, Los Angeles, Paris, São Paulo, Singapore, Dallas, Madrid, Washington, Mexico City, Chicago, Toronto, Chongqing and Montreal. The results of this breathtaking project form an unusual series of some 100 façades: a vocabulary of global architecture, an inventory of city landmarks. The structures and colours of the contemporary metropolitan universe are transformed into pictures that resemble abstract painting
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Hirmer Verlag Eva & Adele: Adsila
Book SynopsisSketches of poetic and absolute power that are as extraordinary as their creators. This is t he first ‐ ever publication of the entirety of EVA & ADELE’s floral sketchbook. The drawings of flowers, which are uncompromising and executed in a small number of unfalteringly precise graphite lines, surprise the viewer with the radical aesthetics of their abstraction. Accompanied by a Gertrude Stein text, the unique sketches of flowers by EVA & ADELE are reproduced in this book ‐ lover’s treasure trove in close adherence to the original artists’ book. Based on photographs of the flowers in the artists’ studi o, they in turn are the basis of the highest level of the monumental palimpsest compositions of the group of works entitled ADSILA. The lifelong performance of the always smiling, internationally successful artist ‐ duo is one of the most radical pieces of c ontemporary art. Their work has already been exhibited in numerous solo shows from New York to Helsinki, and it has been acquired by the most important collections in the world, including the Tate Gallery in London and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville d e Paris
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Hirmer Verlag Annette Messager: Exhibition/Exposition
Book SynopsisThe French artist Annette Messager (b. 1943) is one of the most import ant personalities of the international art scene. Her extensive installations focus on the human body and its attributes. Fragmented and joined together again with thread to form something new, she thereby creates a cosmos that is both fascinating and radi cal. In more than 40 years of artistic creativity Annette Messager has developed her own, concentrated pictorial language. In the early 1970s she still worked mainly with stuffed birds, knitting and picture collections; later these were complemented by dr awings, photographs and installations with soft toys and clothes. By assembling and arranging the most delicate of elements she produces visually stunning works on the gender clichés of contemporary society. This bibliophile’s art book reproduces the late st installations in addition to her most impressive works. It is published to accompany the first solo exh ibition in a German museum for 2 5 years and provides an opportunity to rediscover the oe uvre of Annette Messager.
£18.70
Hirmer Verlag Jochen Plogsties: Kisses in the Afternoon
Book SynopsisThe painter Jochen Plogsties, who studied at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, was a master student of Neo Rauch, and he was awarded the Leipziger Volkszeitung art prize in 2011. This volume provides an overview of his paintings of the past years and introduces his most recent and previously unpublished works of art. Jochen Plogsties (* 1974) paints reproductions of existing reproductions of well‐known works of art. He works from a variety of materials including catalogue illustrations of art‐historical masterpieces, record covers and magazine covers, as well as key works of contemporary photography. His “retranslations” of reproductions of works of art into new paintings de‐familiarise the well‐known original and confound entrenched modes of looking at art. He plays with changes of size and scale and explodes the precision of the original work of art with his coarsening painting style. He simultaneously calls into question a reality shaped by various media that causes us to believe that we have already seen everything that is worth seeing.
£21.25
Hirmer Verlag Minh Häusler: The Fusion of Flora and Art
Book SynopsisIn Minh Hausler’s oeuvre art and nature come together to form an unusual symbiosis. The floral creations made by the photographer and master of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana mesmerise the viewer with their clear and simultaneously powerful formal language, which allows the natural beauty of the flowers and blossoms to fully unfold. The literal meaning of the Japanese term “ikebana” is “living flowers”. The observation of nature therefore also represents one of the fundamental artistic principles of the artist Minh Hausler, who is originally from Vietnam. This is the source of her inspiration, which she transforms into delicate and powerfully expressive arrangements. Minh Hausler learned the art of ikebana, which is steeped in tradition, in Asia before developing her own, unmistakable style in Europe. Nowadays she teaches all over the world and presents more than 200 selected pieces from her oeuvre for the first time in this publication. In doing so, she showcases the various levels and styles of this timeless art, which strives for perfect harmony.
£32.30
Hirmer Verlag Bernard Schultze: A Bright Wisp, a Glistening
Book Synopsis31 May 2015 would have been Bernhard Schultze’s one-hundredth birthday. On the occasion of this anniversary the publication featuring approximately eighty works of art honours the extensive oeuvre of one of the most important Art Informel artists. As a co-founder of the QUADRIGA artists’ group Bernhard Schultze made an important contribution to the establishment of Art Informel in Germany. This art movement rejected both realistic figuration and “formulaic” geometric abstraction, drawing instead on intuitive creative powers. The book presents delicately coloured and black-and-white drawings and boldly colourful oil paintings as well as Schultze’s important reliefs and sculptures. Texts by art historians, authors, psychoanalysts and fellow artists and texts and poems by Bernhard Schultze himself paint a multifaceted picture of this important post-war artist’s oeuvre
£999.99
Hirmer Verlag Schermuly: Catalogue Raisonné
Book SynopsisSchermuly’s mutable and original oeuvre led him out of an abstraction governed by visual rules and into the fascination of reality-inspired colour. The intensity of his gaze explored what the appearance of the world has to offer to a virtuoso colourist for a painting. He was interested not in recreation but in understanding the visible to develop colour phenomena suitable for painting. Profound knowledge of the history of the art of painting was for Schermuly a guarantee of his originality. The elaborately prepared and lavishly produced book presents an artist of rare distinction to the isms of the second half of the twentieth century.
£60.00
