Installation art Books
Ridinghouse Eddie Peake The Forever Loop
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Anomie Publishing Mariele Neudecker - Sediment
Book SynopsisMariele Neudecker is a German-born, Bristol-based artist working at the crossover of art and science. Her multimedia practice, which incorporates sculpture, video, painting and sound, explores the processes and effects of perception, the complexities and contradictions of landscapes and visuality, and the politics of representation and territorialisation. The influence of the nineteenth-century German romantic sublime is interwoven alongside inspiration from Neudecker’s work with scientists, as a guest artist on the Arts at CERN programme, her trips to the Arctic and travel elsewhere.This major monograph, published following an exhibition of the same name at Limerick City Gallery of Art – Neudecker’s first comprehensive solo exhibition in Ireland - presents more than 200 works from a 35-year-long career. In addition to a foreword by Úna McCarthy, the gallery's Director and Curator, essays by distinguished academics and curators from across the fields of art and science address diverse areas of Neudecker’s practice. A 'timeline' that Neudecker made specially for 'SEDIMENT' concludes the publication.Greer Crawley, an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance at Royal Holloway, University of London, considers Neudecker’s archive, studio and her working processes, while Ariane Koek, an international expert in the field of arts, science and technology, suggests that the contemporary sublime Neudecker is so often described as seeking is, for her, the very process of perception itself. Her comprehensive introduction to Neudecker’s practice also discusses the tank works, for which the artist is best known, in which fibreglass landscapes are suspended in chemical solutions.James Peto, from the Wellcome Collection, London, focuses on issues of representation, post-colonialism and ‘time’, while Alice Sharp, Artistic Director of Invisible Dust, looks at Neudecker’s work and collaborations concerning the deep sea.Klaus Dodds, Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London, returns to questions of territorialisation in and around the Arctic, and Professor Kerstin Mey, Interim President of the University of Limerick, considers the genre of still life in Neudecker’s photographic series 'Plastic Vanitas' (2015).Dominic Gray, Projects Director at Opera North, offers insight into Neudecker’s work with sound and music, addressing issues of performance, translation and scale; while Pontus Kyander, an independent writer and curator based in Helsinki, returns to the motif of the forest, arguing that any reading of Neudecker's work might be taken beyond an interest in landscape and the sublime to incorporate contemporary ecological questions. Finally, Crawley's second offering returns to Neudecker's use of sound - its juxtaposition and superimposition, alongside the notion of the window as a device, considering how each creates 'temporal turbulences' and 'an entanglement of materiality, space, form and position,' foregrounding the artist’s desire for viewers to see everything as eternally in flux.The publication, which is released to coincide with a new iteration of Neudecker's exhibition 'SEDIMENT' at Hestercombe, Somerset, in summer 2021, has been edited by Greer Crawley, designed by Herman Lelie and Stefania Bonelli, and printed by EBS Verona. It is published by Anomie Publishing, London.Mariele Neudecker (b. 1965, Dusseldorf, Germany) undertook a BA at Goldsmiths College, London (1987–90), and an MA in sculpture at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (1990-1). She has shown widely in international solo and group exhibitions. Neudecker is Professor of Fine Art at Bath School of Art, where she runs the research cluster Making Art Science Environment. She is on the Arts at CERN’s guest programme, the European Commission’s JRC SciArt advisory panel and the steering committee of Centre of Gravity, UK. Neudecker works with Pedro Cera, Lisbon; In Camera Gallery, Paris; and Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Cologne.
£26.60
Unicorn Publishing Group The Co(s)mic Picture of Reality in the Art of
Book SynopsisThe Co(s)mic Picture of Reality in the Art of Julia Curyło is both a collection of essays about the work of Julia Curyło and an album of works by the artist representing a generation of Central and Eastern European artists born in the 1980s. The central part of the book is an essay by Joanna Paneth, an art historian and graduate of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. Paneth provides an in-depth analysis of Curyło’s selected paintings from a series focusing on space and existential themes. The author discusses the artist’s work in a broader cultural context, referring to the history of art, religion and philosophy and introduces the relatively new current reflected in the artist’s work: space art. The author Joanna Paneth write: ‘The entire book is a journey. Curyło takes us on an unforgettable adventure. We begin on Earth amid the surrounding reality, moving slowly towards the solar system, where planets and space probes and galaxies await us. We go deeper into space to end our adventure even further: among biblical figures and to learn the genesis of the Universe’s creation. At each stage of our journey all the elements, people and space are interconnected and together form an uninterrupted narrative continued in the subsequent works of the artist.’Trade Review"An unforgettable 128-page paperback adventure through Curylo's exciting art, which combines images of space and technology, religion, consumerism, women's art history, migrations and kitsch, this hefty book discusses the Polish artist's work in a broader cultural context, referring to the history of art, religion and philosophy." * Arts & Collections *
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Hannibal Books Night Journey
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Artpower International Interactive Installation Art Design
Book SynopsisInteractive installation art is an important medium of artistic expression, generated alongside the development of technology and art throughout the 21st century. This book includes a number of interactive installation projects, dedicating particular attention to how designers convey their message.Instead of accepting information passively, in an interactive installation the audience is encouraged to communicate directly with the art. This book is divided into three parts: immersive installation (environment), experimental installation (technology), and feedback installation (engagement). Featuring examples drawn from 3D-rendered images, photographs and video projects, this book will explain the relationship between art and technology, and explore some of the ways these fields can be combined. It is a high-quality and practical guidebook, to accompany any interactive installation art exhibition.This book includes a cross-section of projects from outstanding global design agencies such as teamLab, Dem, and Random International. When placed in conjunction with testaments from practising designers, these examples provide a comprehensive introduction to interactive installation art.
£28.00
Onomatopee Passing to Presents: Silence and Golden in the
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Oro Editions Expanded Field: Installation Architecture beyond
Book Synopsis***Delayed title, now published*** At the end of the late 1970s, art theorist and critic Rosalind Krauss had written a seminal text entitled "Sculpture in the Expanded Field," in an attempt to both locate and analyse vanguard sculptural practices of the time such as the work of Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Mary Miss, and Donald Judd whose practices crossed outside of the limits of traditional sculpture and entered into the realms of architecture and landscape through the production of works that she classified as site constructions, marked sites, earthworks and axiomatic structures. Over the past three decades, the boundaries between art and architecture have continued to blur, giving rise to a series of works known as installations whose conceptual, spatial and material trajectories have generated a new and expanding network of relations between the domains of architecture, interiors, sculpture and landscape. At the same time, the range of institutional venues advancing architectural installation practices, such as the PS1 program spawned by the MoMA in New York, the Serpentine Gallery's annual architectural pavilion in London and the Art and Architectural Biennale's in Venice, have provided platforms to intensify the production and reach of contemporary installations. Installations have not only contributed to the advancement of architectural research but have also enabled the redefinition and progressive development of architecture's disciplinary territory allowing architects to explore spatial and tectonic ideas, experiment with emerging technological strategies, and distill perceptual and experiential conditions without the limitations traditionally imposed by the permanence and utility of building. Following the legacy of Rosalind Krauss, 'Expanded Field: Installation Architecture Beyond Art' by Ila Berman and Douglas Burnham explores the realm of art and architecture across a broad terrain of installation practices, revealing a critical territory that, despite its exuberant proliferation, has been historically defined as a negativity: the progeny of that which is both not-architecture and not-art. Within this book, a wide range of art and architectural works are positioned and mapped as constellations within a newly expanded field suspended between Architecture, Interiors, Sculpture, and Landscape. These four terms are the initial reference points used to elaborate a more extensive taxonomical framework defining twelve distinct territories where the analytical drawings and photographic indexes of seventy-five installation projects are situated. The expanded field diagram is a conceptual framework that operates on many levels. It acts as a lens through which to theorise and classify the trajectories of current installation practices and serves as an infrastructure to organise the content of the book. Along the trajectory from interiors to sculpture, for example, one finds the immersive chromatic environments of Carlos Cruz-Diez, the thermal and radiant atmospheres of Philippe Rahm, the intensely graphic patterned surfaces of Jurgen Mayer and Yayoi Kusama, and the interactive mediated light landscapes of Ryoji Ikeda and Julio Le Parc. These are installations intent on foregrounding immersive atmospheric spaces rather than sculptural objects and that collectively define Chromatic/Graphic Immersion, one of the twelve typologies through which the book is organised. Along the path from interiors toward landscape, are situated a different series of installation projects including the undulating orange strata of Bamscape and the pink spongy terrain of Mute Room, two works by Thom Faulders both of which redefine ground as a programmed surface and occupiable topography. AUTHOR: Ila Berman, principal of Scaleshift design and the new O'Donovan Director of the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, is an architect, theorist, and curator of architecture and urbanism whose research investigates the relationship between culture and the evolution of contemporary material and spatial practices. Douglas Burnham is principal and founder of envelope a+d, an award-winning architecture and design firm whose work reconceptualises modes of living and building to advance compelling visions of the emerging urban condition. Illustrations throughout
£27.00
Lars Muller Publishers The Fabric of Reality
Book SynopsisWith his new artist's book The Fabric of Reality, Beat Streuli for the first time lays a trail leading through his oeuvre. Following Public Works (JRP Ringier, 2012), which delivered an overview of Streuli's installations from 1996-2011, the artist now links projects, photographs, and video stills from the past seven years with early black-and-white works. Arranged in close succession and with frequent superimposition, the works create a visual rhythm that conveys an impression of an oeuvre marked by sober conceptual observation verging on documentary status. Essays on the themes of urbanism and sociology, as well as on media theory and the theory of perception, embed Streuli's work in a discursive context.
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Hatje Cantz Loris Gréaud: The Unplayed Notes & The
Book SynopsisThe works by the conceptual artist Loris Gréaud include installations, films, and architecture, as does his long-term project taking place around the world, The Unplayed Notes. Viewers encounter an experimental field of diverse media, all of which attempt to give form to temperature, light waves, or time. Gréaud is interested in the stages of artistic production. The process of searching per se becomes visible in his installations. This book reveals the development of his art, in accordance with the ideas of Karlheinz Stockhausen, which gave the book its name: the actual meaning of a work lies in its unplayed, unheard notes. It includes as well an introduction to his upcoming project The Underground Sculpture Park that will be inaugurated in the Oaxaca desert and two complementary essays by the artist’s long-time collaborator, outstanding theorist, and curator Nicolas Bourriaud.Bilingual: English and French.
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Cannibal/Hannibal Publishers Strandbeesten: The New Generation
Book SynopsisDutch artist Theo Jansen (b. 1948, The Hague) has achieved worldwide recognition for his imposing and ingenious strandbeests, which are much more than art objects. They actually try to create dunes themselves. Taking his inspiration from the theory of evolution, Jansen has taught his strandbeests to float on the sea breeze and to walk independently along the beach. Using PVC tubing, adhesive tape and PET bottles, he has brought a completely new life form into existence. In so doing, he seeks insight into the origins of life itself. His ultimate aim is to have herds of his creations roam the beach all on their own. ‘Give me another couple of million years, and my strandbeests will live completely independently.’ Text in English and Dutch.Table of Contents10 PREGLUTON PERIODE VOORAFGAAND AAN HET GLUTON / THE ERA BEFORE THE GLUTON 1948-1989 16 GLUTON PLAKBANDPERIODE / THE ADHESIVE-TAPE PERIOD 1990 22 CHORDA SJORPERIODE / THE TYING PERIOD 1991-1993 26 CALIDUM HETE PERIODE / THE HOT PERIOD 1993-1994 30 TEPIDEEM LAUWE PERIODE / THE TEPID PERIOD 1994-1997 40 LIGNATUM PERIODE VAN HET HOUT / THE WOOD PERIOD 1997-2001 44 VAPORUM PERIODE VAN DE STOOMGELUIDEN / THE STEAM-SOUNDS PERIOD 2001-2006 50 CEREBRUM PERIODE VAN DE HERSENEN / THE BRAINS PERIOD 2006-2008 60 SUÏCIDEEM/SUICIDEEM PERIODE VAN HET ZELFDESTRUCTIVISME / 2009-2011 64 ASPERSORIUM PERIODE VAN HET KWISPELEN / THE TAIL-WAGGING PERIOD 2012 66 AURUM PERIODE VAN DE ZWAKKE WIND / THE WEAK-WINDS PERIOD 2013-2015 68 BRUCHUM PERIODE VAN DE RUPSEN / THE CATERPILLAR PERIOD 2016-2019 72 VOLANTUM PERIODE VAN HET VLIEGEN / THE FLYING PERIOD 2020-2021 76 FILUM PERIODE VAN DE DRAADJES / THE CORD PERIOD 2021
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Kerber Verlag Ilya Kabakov: Installations 2000-2016. Catalogue
Book SynopsisToday Ilya and Emilia Kabakov are recognised as the most important living Russian artists. Their multidisciplinary practice, spanning drawing, painting, sculpture and installation, modifies our perceptions of everyday life. Including the public space they extended the concept of installation without creating a new marked definition. While grappling with the pre-modern period from Renaissance art to the 19th century they found their own means of expression. One example is the much-noticed installation The Strange City for Monumenta 2014 at the Grand Palais, the venue of the Paris Photo. The creation of a utopian city abounds with art-historical references in addition to motifs from modern science and represents the synthesis of a long artistic career.
£90.00
Kerber Verlag Anna K.E. & Florian Meisenberg: Complimentary
Book SynopsisIn the digital age, reality itself faces profound revolutions. The everyday, cohabitation, labour, our perception, and our senses radically shift into virtuality. In images and displays, installations, performances, and films, Anna K.E. (*1986) and Florian Meisenberg (*1980) explore the complex effects and repercussions of the latest technologies on the analogous world and the human body. For the Kunstpalais Erlangen, they have devised their collaborative exhibition as an associative circuit, which, both textually and visually multiplied, will continue within this intricately designed artist book. Text in English and German.
£36.10
Kerber Verlag Linus Riepler: After the Excitement
Book SynopsisAfter the Excitement is the first monograph on the artistic work of Linus Riepler (* 1984). The main focus is on his large, expansive installations and sculptures from the last ten years. In particular, it is worked out how the use of space, the interaction with the viewer and the representation of scenic narratives run through Riepler's entire oeuvre. With texts and essays by art historian and curator Daniela Hahn as well as companions from previous exhibition projects. Text in English and German.
£33.00
Kerber Verlag Don't Call it Art!: Contemporary Art in Vietnam
Book SynopsisKaraoke bars and noisy motorbikes, AIDS and capitalism, Buddhism and homosexuality, the allure of Western brands and a worn out country, marked by war – the works of Vietnamese artists Truong Tan, Nguyen Minh Thanh, Nguyen Quang Huy and Nguyen Van Cuong are both blunt and introspective, marked by fury and tenderness. Their work stands for a society on the brink of change – and they mark the beginning of a new art, the onset of contemporary art in Vietnam. Their unconventional works, their art performances and installations – the first ever in Vietnam – have established them as the most important protagonists of a free young art scene that emerged in Hanoi in the early 1990s. Their works have found their place not only in the collections of leading museums such as Singapore Art Museum and National Gallery Singapore, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation New York or Fukuoka Asian Art Museum; even recent art historical surveys in Vietnam itself now honour their names as ground-breaking artists. Four extensive artist sections are the core of the book. The archive of German artist Veronika Radulovic enables us to make these radical works accessible for the first time. Don’t Call it Art! tells the initial story of four artists and thereby bridge a gap in Vietnamese art history of the 20th century.
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Kerber Verlag Sebastian Jung: Bio Bio SUV
Book SynopsisHow will we deal with manmade climate change? Can the bioeconomy, whose foundation is no longer fossil — but rather bio-based raw materials, play a key role in coping with the climate crisis? Must we not instead scrutinise our social mentalities themselves? The art project Bio Bio SUV of Sebastian Jung and the research group flumen addresses these questions. The starting point for the artistic research is Sebastian Jung’s series of drawings of a car stunt show. The possibilities and impossibilities of a new economy are outlined by an eight-person think tank. In the interventions Jeder Vogel hat ein Auto (Every Bird Has a Car) and Die Pinguine am Starnberger See sind beinahe ausgestorben (The Penguins on Lake Starnberg Have Almost Become Extinct) Sebastian Jung devotes himself to the human view of nature and home. He creates productive irritations and invites viewers to interact with them. Texts by Viola Bronsema, Dennis Eversberg, Holger Gerdes, Alex Giurca, Franz-Theo Gottwald, Christiane Grefe, Rafaela Hillerbrand, Sebastian Jung, Zoritza Kiresiewa, Monica Navas Males, Sophia Pietryga, Ulrich Schurr. Text in English and German.
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Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Bettina Pousttchi: Metropolitan Life
Book SynopsisSince the late 2000s, German-Iranian artist Bettina Pousttchi has been creating works at the intersection of sculpture, architecture and photography. Her large-scale installations question the history and memory of places, exploring the connections between time and space in a transnational perspective and have gained her wide international recognition and praise. This book features Pousttchi's new photographic installation at Nivola Museum in Orani on the Italian island Sardinia. For this, she chose as her subject the Metropolitan Life Building on 1 Madison Avenue in Manhattan. Criticised for its blatant Italian references at the time of its completion in 1909 and the world's tallest high-rise until 1913, the building displays a hybrid identity, recalling cultural and temporal-spatial dislocations between the Old and the New World, Renaissance and Modernism. Published alongside the images of Metropolitan Life and other works by Pousttchi are an essay by art historian Greg Foster-Rice and a conversation between the artist, critic and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, and architect and writer Markus Miessen.
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AVEdition Event Design Yearbook 2020/2021
Book SynopsisThe world is changing. A host of developments are impacting our lives: sustainability, values, equality, purpose, digitisation or 'Gen Z'. However, a consideration of the majority of brand experiences gives rise to the question: Where is the change? It occurred: with COVID-19! And suddenly it was about people's lives, about our supply system and saving our and many other sectors. This is therefore a special Event Design Yearbook. It allows us to revel in projects that have been prohibited for months in 2020. It also shows experience concepts from the time before COVID-19. With all the foreseen changes after the pandemic, as described for example by Cedric Ebener in an interview, one can only speculate how the concepts presented here might look in future. Text in English and German. Contents: Public Events; Consumer Events; Employee Events; Press Events.Table of ContentsContents: Public Events; Consumer Events; Employee Events; Press Events.
£52.50
Spector Books Transposition
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Spector Books Goethe in the Skyways
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£20.00
Spector Books Sung Tieu: Oath against Minimalism
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Five Continents Editions Godai: Art du Bambou Bamboo Art. Tanabe
Book SynopsisThis book is dedicated to Godai, an installation by Japanese artist Tanabe Chikuunsai IV, who represents the fourth generation of a prestigious line of kagoshi (master wickerwork weavers) in Japan. Godai is a homage to nature and to a tradition of handcraftsmanship. This monumental work, six meters high and nearly as broad at its base, was installed in 2016 in the Rotunda of the Musée des Arts Asiatiques Guimet in Paris and presented to the public from April 12th through September 19th, when the artist still presented himself under the name of Tanabe Shouchiku III. The structure, composed of 8,000 small pieces of bamboo prepared in Japan, was extremely well received. It represents a world in which the five elements, godoi, that make up our world (wind, water, earth, void and fire, according to Japanese tradition) intertwine. Tanabe couldn't find a more suitable material. Tough yet flexible, bamboo has been part of the lives of people in Asia since ancient times and used for numerous purposes. Because of its great significance (it represents 'principles, integrity and constancy'), it has also been represented in many historic paintings and used as a design motif in stationery and furniture. Tanabe's works are both historic and modern and invite a response from the viewer. His bamboo installations, presented in a form adapted to the space in which they are displayed, induce viewers to be aware of and appreciate that space. Each work is dismantled at the end of the exhibition to leave just its memory. And the same bamboo is used for new installations, giving a tangible sense to the concepts of 'continuity' and 'rebirth' and providing a sense of connection with space that transcends time. Godai is no exception: a monumental and ephemeral work, like a piece of organic architecture, it transmits positive energy. Text in English and French.
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Uitgeverij de Kunst Barbara Nanning - Eternal Movement: Ceramics,
Book Synopsis2019 marked the 40th anniversary of Barbara Nanning's graduation in ceramics from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Over those forty years, Nanning (b.1957) has become an internationally respected artist with work in countless public and private collections in the Netherlands and around the world. Originally, her reputation was due mainly to her pioneering ceramics and installations, which had completely abandoned the container form that had so long dominated studio pottery. But for the last 25 years Nanning has worked chiefly in a different medium: glass, in which she has created an amazing and multi-faceted oeuvre. Each year she spends an extended period in the Czech Republic, where expert glassblowers help her to conjure up the most extraordinary and thrilling objects in that material.
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Uitgeverij Kannibaal Stief Desmet
Book SynopsisStief Desmet (1973) is one of the new names in the Belgian art world. His unusual painting technique sets him apart from the many followers of artists such as Luc Tuymans and Michael Borremans. He has developed his own visual language and his own alphabet, in which he draws on all the resources available to him. Painting is just one of the disciplines he practices; he also creates installations and sculptures, and is renowned for his videos. Desmet questions his own position as a contemporary artist alongside the "golden river" landscape painters (Leieschilders) from his youth, who immortalised the landscape in their pastoral works. Typical characteristics of his work include its escapist nature, in which the artist withdraws into nature, and the humour that is evident in many of his works. Stief Desmet (1973) lives and works in Belgium. He studied at the Royal academy for fine arts (1991-1995) and at the Sint Lucas institute for arts and science (1994-1996) in Gent. In 2005 he was the laureate of the Provincial Price for Visual Arts of East-Flanders. He already exhibited his works in Belgium, the Netherlands, France and the US. Text in English and Dutch SELLING POINTS: . Gives an insight into the multidisciplinary of the work of Stief Desmet, as a painter and a sculptor . A selection of the works that are endowed with an unique and fascinating imagery 58 colour, 18 b/w
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Kerber Verlag Marta & Slava: Selected projects 2009 - 2020
Book SynopsisMarta Volkova (*1955) and Slava Shevelenko (*1953) were born in the Soviet Union, that distant country which seems to exist only in history books and all their work seems to stem from this legendary beginning. In the era of fabulators, perverse mechanics of alternative facts and ill-intentioned fake news forgers, Volkova and Shevelenko are like story tellers: their work is expressed in vast narrative installations. Their rich, multifaceted projects explore the boundaries between reality and fiction. Using subjects from the collective mythology - the Yeti, the so-called Tunguska meteorite in Siberia - they interweave these with moral, social, philosophical or political metaphors which in turn resonate with the realities of today's world. In this publication a number of selected projects are presented, made by Volkova and Shevelenko between 2009 and 2020.
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Five Continents Editions I Have Longed to Move Away: Lawrence Carroll.
Book SynopsisThis catalogue accompanies the monographic exhibition that Museo Vincenzo Vela, in Mendrisio-Ligornetto, has dedicated to the works of Lawrence Carroll (b. 1954). Born in Melbourne, Carroll moved to California with his family in 1958. Some twenty-five years later, in 1984 he moved once again, to New York, where he pursued his artistic development, having little concern for the fashions of the moment but a profound sense of personal commitment and dedication to the language and practice of painting. As he understands it, painting abuts on many other art forms: in his hands it becomes the slow stratification of colour, materials, and objects, in which the surface of the painting interacts with the surrounding environment, blurring the borders between painting, sculpture, and installation. Moving from place to place, Carroll has always been most at home in the quiet of his studio, which provides him with the intimacy he requires to express himself. Here he explores duration as the fragility of time and space, placing memory at the heart of his poetics. Old remembrances emerge on the surface, overlaying each other layer upon layer, like an accumulation of light, dust and matter in pale colour tones as close to the colour of the canvas as possible. Inherently porous as the surface is, one can make out graphemes and underlying traces, while objects are applied directly onto it. The result is a poetics of rarefied references, narratives that gradually form and are at the same time swathed in a metaphysical atmosphere of suspension, a sort of 'metaphysics of the quotidian'. Designed like an autobiography installed in the rooms of the museum-house, the exhibition provides an overview of Carroll's artistic development, from his earliest works to the present day, highlighting the subtle recurring themes as well as the fresh departures that have taken him on wholly new artistic journeys. The catalogue offers the first ever overall assessment of the artist's work as it has evolved during his life. The book is lavishly illustrated, and includes a full biography and comprehensive bibliography, as well as providing an engaging interview with the artist. Text in English and Italian.
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De Gruyter Barbis Ruder. Werk – Zyklus – Körper / Work –
Book SynopsisBarbis Ruder: 10 Jahre Performancekunst Im Fokus der Arbeiten der Performance- und Medienkünstlerin Barbis Ruder steht der Körper – als Ausgangs- und Untersuchungsobjekt zugleich. In ihren Performances und multimedialen Arbeiten lotet Ruder Themen wie Wirtschaft, Arbeit, Intimität und Konventionen aus. Der Körper kommt im bewegten Bild, in Skulpturen, Installationen und auf der Bühne zum Einsatz. Das Buch präsentiert erstmals das gesamte Werk von Barbis Ruder und zeigt die Vielschichtigkeit ihres Schaffens. In unterschiedlichen Werkzyklen wird der Körper immer wieder neu ver- und behandelt, im Spannungsfeld zwischen Emanzipation und Kapitalismus. Die umfangreiche Werkschau versammelt trashige Bühnenperformances und bildhauerische Werke ebenso wie Videoarbeiten und gibt Einblicke in Werkentwicklungen, die durch Zeichnungen und Studien dokumentiert sind. Erstes umfassendes Werkporträt der Performance- und Medienkünstlerin Barbis Ruder Aufwendig gestaltetes Buchobjekt, mit zahlreichen großformatigen Abbildungen Mit Beiträgen von Lona Gaikis und Peter Kozek sowie einer Einleitung von Madeleine Frey
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De Gruyter Ruth Schnell – WORKBOOK: Mirrors of the Unseen
Book SynopsisHybrid spatial installations Ruth Schnell’s work interrogates historical concepts of reality that are now being called into question by apparative perception. In the field of media art, Schnell has made a significant contribution to the understanding of this radical transformation: she has gone beyond the moving image, involved viewers in a participatory manner, and expanded object-like or sculptural art into immersive environments. Deeply inscribed in her artistic approach is the reference to sociopolitical questions and the latest developments in technology. The monograph offers a documentary reappraisal and contextualization of Ruth Schnell’s work since 1983 and provides stimulus for enhancing competence in the field of media. 40 years of media art production open up new paths and dimensions in a singular way Extensive section on the body of work; with prefaces by Peter Weibel and Katharina Gsöllpointner, as well as contributions by Claudia Giannetti, Chris Salter, and Jill Scott Digital link to the artist’s video archive via QR codes
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De Gruyter Ricarda Denzer – ganz ohr / all ears: Audio
Book SynopsisDenken – Sprechen – Hören: Ein Werkporträt Das Hören bzw. der Klang der gesprochenen Sprache bildet einen fließenden, zuweilen auch gebrochenen Akt der Veränderung in der Zeit. Gleichzeitig nehmen Mündlichkeit bzw. menschliche Stimmen auch Raum ein, schaffen neue Orte und unterliegen somit einer Situiertheit. Die Publikation bringt den Aufführungscharakter der Stimme und die verbindende, räumliche Qualität von Klang im Medium Buch zur Darstellung und präsentiert Arbeiten der bildenden Künstlerin Ricarda Denzer aus den letzten zehn Jahren. Ausgangspunkt ist die These, dass das Denken eine Stimme und diese einen Körper hat. Das Hören als physischer, performativer Akt wird als kreativer Prozess der „Weltwerdung“, als Teilhabe an der Welt, verstanden. Das Buch geht den Fragen nach, wie wir denken, wie wir erinnern, wie wir uns mit der Welt in Beziehung setzen. Ein Überblick über das künstlerische Schaffen von Ricarda Denzer (Werke 2013–2023) Künstlerische Praxis als situiertes Zuhören; experimentelle künstlerische Ansätze aus Sound und Voice Studies Mit Beiträgen von Fouad Asfour, Christa Benzer, Ricarda Denzer, Christiane Erharter, Christian Höller, Brandon LaBelle und Jaimini Patel
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De Gruyter human error: Louisa Clement
Book SynopsisGerman-english edition The question of identity has always preoccupied artists. Louisa Clement is no different, her central theme is the human being and the human in the digital. In her art, she starts out from herself, but ventures much further, asking how identity will be shaped in the future and examining forms of transformation. In the series of works Repräsentantinnen (Representatives), she creates AI-equipped, adaptive images of herself, with which visitors can converse. In photographic works, the master pupil of Andreas Gursky continues this examination of the body and its possible optimisations and deals with military legacies under the aspect of transformation. This publication is appearing for an exhibition at the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum - both artists are united in their search for self-expression, as Paula Modersohn-Becker's Self-portrait on 6th wedding anniversary from 1906 demonstrates in a succinct manner. Look inside https://issuu.com/deutscher_kunstverlag/docs/blick_ins_buch_human_error_louisa_clement?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ Louisa Clement (born 1987 in Bonn) completed her studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 2015 as a master pupil of Andreas Gursky. She has already exhibited in various institutions and museums, including e.g.: Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (2022); Casino Luxembourg – Forum d'art contemporain (2022); Ludwig Forum Aachen (2019); Sprengel Museum Hanover (2019) One of today’s most popular young artists Current social issues such as AI, questions about body and self-image, and possibilities of digital storage Exhibition, 2 September 2023 to 21 January 2024, Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen
£21.00
Kerber Verlag Christopher Winter: Archipelago of the Mind
Book SynopsisBritish artist Christopher Winter (*1968) is a figurative painter, performance and installation artist. His work is influenced primarily by literature, film and politics. He has a particular interest in fairy tales, folk rituals and often questions the nature of our reality. Winter's paintings are mysterious yet also have a narrative element. This is the second monograph to be published on his painting by Kerber Verlag. This volume compliments the preceding one and illuminates Winter's previously unseen installation and performance work. The book is arranged in themed “Islands”, works are not organised chronologically. The reader is then invited to visit “Libertine Island”, “Deep Forest Island” or “Reality Island” as they sail amongst The Archipelago of the Mind. A map at the front of the book guides the way. Text in English and German. Published to accompany an exhibition entitled ARCHIPELAGO OF THE MIND - a CHRISTOPHER WINTER SOLO EXHIBITION with Book Launch and Opening of the Exhibition on Friday 8 October 2021 at ZAK – Center for Contemporary Art Zitadelle, Berlin.
£46.22
Kerber Verlag Rune Guneriussen: Lights go out
Book SynopsisThe Norwegian artist Rune Guneriussen (* 1977) was an artist-in-residence at the Museum Kunst der Westküste on the island of Föhr in 2018. He laid the cornerstone for the new work series Lights go out at several locations on the island. Further installations were subsequently created in the Danish coastal town of Skagen as well as in various regions of Norway. Guneriussen takes us on a journey through forests and wetlands, to bodies of water and stretches of coast. The self-constructed light objects look technoid and call to mind high-rise buildings, route markers, or mythical creatures. On the beach or in forest moss, they seem to be loosely distributed or austerely composed, and are photographed in the twilight of the blue hour. It is shown that the often fascinating-seeming balance between the manmade and nature of previous works becomes increasingly unstable in the new series Lights go out. Texts by Katrin Hippel, Håvard Johansen, Christiane Morsbach, Klara Scheuren, Ulrike Wolf-Thomsen. Text in English and German.
£999.99
Kerber Verlag Ruth Maria Obrist: the poetry of logic
Book SynopsisThere is a trace of timeless arithmetic validity in the work of Ruth Maria Obrist. Her objects and installations explore themes such as mathematics – chaos and order – space, void, proportion, and volume. Over the years, the ocean, too, caught between beauty, destruction and healing, has been a central theme. Ruth Maria Obrist’s works are of a profound materiality. Using bitumen, white glue, mercuchrome, gold or rust, she creates sensory surfaces that – formally reduced to the essential – exude a poetic ease. This book covers works from the years 2000 to 2021, including some of the numerous projects that Ruth Maria Obrist realised together with architects and in public spaces. Text in English and German.
£45.38
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Dominique GonzalezFoerster
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£25.60
Hatje Cantz AROTIN & SERGHEI: Infinite Screen: From Life
Book SynopsisThe artists AROTIN & SERGHEI question the predominate language of our time: the constant visual observation of the infinite metamorphosis of “light cells”, the smallest components of digital imagery. Their most recent work, Infinite Screen, grapples with themes of endless space, the illusionary surface of images, and the genesis of light. This publication is a survey of the development of Infinite Screen over several cycles of intermedia drawings, pictures, installations, sculptures and compositions within constantly evolving parameters of scientific, mythological, philosophical, and architectural frameworks. The project 'Infinite Screen' was realized in several large-scale variations at Ars Electronica, the Venice Biennial, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna and the Beyeler Foundation.
£36.00
Hatje Cantz Sondra Perry: A Terrible Thing
Book SynopsisWhat turns a random space into a place? What inscribes history into it, or lends it significance? These questions occupy the installation artist Sondra Perry in her current piece, A Terrible Thing, for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland. On Euclid Street in the heart of Cleveland, Perry carries out a kind of archaeological study of the street’s history using video, pictures found online, and digital methods of representation. In doing so, she relates the changing infrastructure of race representation on the street and its gender-political effect in everyday use to each other in order to negotiate issues of identity—of a city, a society, and of individuals. This work became a prism of times and perspectives that can now be imagined with the help of this publication.
£999.99
Hatje Cantz Mark Wallinger (Bilingual edition)
Book SynopsisAccompanying the first exhibition of outstanding British artist Mark Wallinger's paintings in Switzerland, this catalogue focuses on his large-scale Action Paintings, complemented by a series of new, polychrome small-scale paintings. Despite their many differences from the works of French Impressionism the collection of the Museum Langmatt is centered around, light and movement remain the central elements here as there. A homage to the term coined by Harold Rosenberg who claimed that for action painters the canvas was not a representation but an extension of the mind itself, these performative works move from image to action. Created by sweeping paint-laden hands across the canvas in active freeform gestures, they make intense reference to the body, intensified by the use of plasticine which creates soft, relief-like effects.
£36.10
Hatje Cantz Stano Filko: A Retrospective
Book SynopsisStano Filko is considered as an influential utopian and polyartist, who understood art and life universally and cosmologically as a unity beyond geographical attributions of East and West. Filko was one of the most important representatives of the Central European neo-avant-gardes, whose work has remained current. Early on, he designed hybrid objects and environments, extending them into unfamiliar terrains with his basic conceptual approach. Again and again, the focus of the work changes: assemblages are followed by text-based works and performances that attempt to circumvent state repression, and later by large-scale gestural painting, characterized by artistic self-assertion, and finally by a final phase, which he dedicates to his increasingly complex "System SF". The publication approaches the multi-layered œuvre from various perspectives and takes a fresh look at this exuberant oeuvre. After achievements in the 1960s, Stano Filko (1937-2015) became persona non grata as a result of the Prague Spring, which led to a daring escape from the "Eastern Bloc", his participation in Documenta, and him eventually moving to New York. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he returned to Bratislava and transformed the studio house Snezienková into a multi-dimensional, colorful "gesamtkunstwerk".
£35.20
Hatje Cantz Tobias Putrih: Perceptron
Book SynopsisPaper, cardboard, plywood, light—decidedly conceptual and materially ephemeral, Tobias Putrih’s projects draw on the visionary concepts of architecture and design and utopian ideas of the 20th century avant-gardes. This book traces Putrih’s investigations into the heritage of architectural experiments such as the works of Buckminster Fuller and Friedrich Kiesler. Perceptron is the first comprehensive survey of Putrih’s work that oscillates between architecture, sculpture, and science. Through an encyclopedic array of reference materials and critical texts, it examines Putrih’s practice in the context of architectural and design history as well as the history of cybernetics, and offers a richly illustrated study of Putrih’s modifications of public spaces, experiments with collective form, as well as his immersive temporary environments created out of everyday materials.
£32.00
Hatje Cantz Marinella Senatore: We Rise by Lifting Others
Book SynopsisBlind people marching to the beat, illiterate people composing music, retirees, skaters, choirs, activists: they all are guests of Marinella Senatore. In her collaborative works, the Italian artist combines strategies of political protest movements with artistic forms of expression. Different media such as performance, sculpture, textile, photo, collage, drawing and video become a language of their own, a means of negotiating questions of emancipation. This catalogue accompanies the artist’s largest exhibition to date at the Museum VILLA STUCK and the Generali Foundation Collection at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg: international authors discuss questions about the tension between the individual and the collective, longings and belonging, sociopolitical exclusion and alternative forms of society, as well as the transformative potential of art.
£36.00
Hatje Cantz Clegg & Guttmann: Rejected
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£999.99
Hatje Cantz Cristina Iglesias (Spanish edition): Hondalea
Book SynopsisA unique sculptural Intervention The lighthouse on the island of Santa Clara in Donostia / San Sebastián stood empty for many years until Cristina Iglesias transformed it into a breath-taking sculptural work that opened to the public in 2021. Inside the restored lighthouse, visitors look down as water rises up, as if from the sea below, surging through forms cast in bronze to resemble the distinctive geology of the Basque Coast, before pooling and trickling away. Featuring extensive photographs of a journey by boat from the city to the island and into the lighthouse, together with writings by art historians, geologists and scientists, Cristina Iglesias – Hondalea documents a remarkable work realized by one of the world’s leading sculptors in the city where she was born.
£32.00
Hatje Cantz Cristina Iglesias (Bilingual edition): Hondalea
Book SynopsisA unique sculptural Intervention The lighthouse on the island of Santa Clara in Donostia / San Sebastián stood empty for many years until Cristina Iglesias transformed it into a breath-taking sculptural work that opened to the public in 2021. Inside the restored lighthouse, visitors look down as water rises up, as if from the sea below, surging through forms cast in bronze to resemble the distinctive geology of the Basque Coast, before pooling and trickling away. Featuring extensive photographs of a journey by boat from the city to the island and into the lighthouse, together with writings by art historians, geologists and scientists, Cristina Iglesias – Hondalea documents a remarkable work realized by one of the world’s leading sculptors in the city where she was born.
£999.99
Prestel Haegue Yang: Emergence
Book SynopsisHaegue Yang is renowned for her multifaceted works that vary in form from collage to kinetic sculpture, perceptively evoking historical and contemporary narratives of migration, displacement, and cross-cultural translation. Using a language of abstraction, Yang transforms ordinary and domestic materials, such as venetian blinds, light bulbs, drying racks, yarn, and bells, into deeply allegorical, meticulously constructed installations and sculptures that dissociate these materials from their original contexts. The artist’s installations become immersive environments that provoke the senses with a diversity of scents, sounds, and textures. Featuring essays contextualising Yang’s artistic career, this book fully illustrates the scope of Art Gallery of Ontario's groundbreaking exhibition and generates new understandings of Yang’s transformative contributions to the field of contemporary art.
£25.49
Spector Books Henrike Naumann: 2000
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£26.60
Skira Julien Friedler (Multi-lingual edition): E'
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£999.99
Skira Anu Poder
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£29.75
JRP Ringier Tris Vonna-Michell
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£23.00
Dietrich Reimer Im Labor Des Zeichners: Joseph Beuys Und Die
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£58.90
