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Those in search for the essence of humanity will discover beauty and ugliness, light and shadow on their way towards it. For the eighth time, The Opéra sets out to present the human body as it was created or independently formed and shaped. In their diverse works, numerous photographers from all over the world once more share the same curiosity to explore human emotions. All of them, some reluctant and observing, others delightedly engaged and orchestrated, act out the great spectacle that is human existence.

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The young Kuwaiti Monira Al Qadiri (*1983) is one of the most important artistic voices of the Gulf region. She poetically combines the social upheavals of the past 30 years as well as the acute effects of the oil industry and belief systems with traditional elements from myth and history. By showing the ruptures between past and present symbolically - for instance, glass as a ghostly trace of the drilling machines in the desert - she quasi-speculates into a possible future. This book provides moving insights into Monira Al Qadiri's work of the past years.

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In his new catalogue Ballad for Space Lovers, the artist Sebastian Hosu (*1988) traces his creative work of the past years since completing his master class studies in Leipzig. The centre of the creative work and life of the Romanian-born artist is the old Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei (cotton-spinning mill), one of the most important artist centres in Germany of our time. Hosu’s pictures are distinguished by an expressive characteristic style, as if created in just one single breath. His dynamic, often flesh-coloured forms give rise to the suggestion of bodies and flow into a living natural environment. Whether luminous oil painting or charcoal drawings — Hosu’s pictorial works have a strong physical presence and take viewers along with them on a journey through space and time. Text in English and German.

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What does the current Chinese art scene look like? What talents can you discover here? The art platform BMCA regularly organises art exhibitions and projects that give Chinese artists the opportunity to present themselves. Based on selected works from the BMCA art collection, texts and documents, the new publication presents these 5-year projects and shows how exciting and versatile young art is in China. The book follows the stories of some of China's most exciting young talents and provides insights into a variety of artists and curators. Text in English and simplified Chinese.

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The Bauhaus was one of the most important schools of art, design, and architecture, whose visionary designs continue to be regarded as icons of modernity today. This book provides an in-depth presentation of the second-largest Bauhaus collection in the world. It includes objects from all the phases and fields at the renowned institution, including student works by Marianne Brandt, Josef Albers, or Marcel Breuer, as well as works by Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, or Gunta Stölzl. Objects and materials found in the Bauhaus buildings in Dessau - the Bauhaus Building, the Masters' Houses, the Employment Office, and the Dessau-Törten estate - are presented as well. The book also provides an introduction to the history and development of the school.

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The first of Deutsche Bank Collection's new exhibition series, presented at 'PalaisPopulair' in Berlin, is dedicated to the fascinating artistic medium of paper. The World on Paper shows how the everyday and at the same time sensual material paper opens up surprising possibilities, even in an era of innovative technologies. The publication also documents the fact that works on paper in particular give rise to connections with other media and hence visualise current art in all its breadth. Artists: Doug Aitken, Josef Albers, Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Hanne Darboven, Ellen Gallagher, Hermann Glöckner, Katharina Grosse, Eva Hesse, Anish Kapoor, William Kentridge, Martin Kippenberger, Imi Knoebel, Maria Lassnig, Markus Lüpertz, Heinz Mack, Helen Marten, Joan Mitchell, Takashi Murakami, Wangechi Mutu, Bruce Nauman, Blinky Palermo, Sigmar Polke, Neo Rauch, Gerhard Richter, James Rosenquist, Karin Sander, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, et. al. Text in English and German.

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Christine Ödlund’s (*1963) first monograph is composed as a coherent whole, with each part interacting and resonating with the next. Paying particular attention to the proper way of interacting with the multiple forms of intelligence surrounding us, Ödlund finds an inexhaustible source of inspiration in the concept of Deep Listening which states that listening implies becoming aware of oneself as part of a universal whole. The works are the result of the artist transposing sound into form and image, notably through the use of plant pigments. By contemplating the botanical motifs and the soft colours of these works on paper, we might be able to approach the plant kingdom not only with fresh eyes but possibly also with fresh ears.

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Allen Jones is one of the most important protagonists of British Pop Art. Upon the field of stage and dance, sport and advertisement, he plays out his provocative examination of the media image of the woman and traditional gender roles in a variety of media, in full suspense between figuration and gestural abstraction. The Catalogue raisonné of the Graphic Works. Part II is comprised of works between 1995 and 2018, highlighting the prominent rank of his graphics upon which he developed his complete artistic oeuvre, both technically and compositionally.

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Smavos, Tnösis, Cephandrion, and Graue Sonne: These words do not come from science fiction, but are instead the titles of ceramics by Gereon Krebber that are being presented in the exhibition Keramocringe at the Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten in Marl, along with room-dividing works made of burnt wood. This publication documents the sculptures and architecture in the final ensemble before the museum moves to its new location. An in-depth conversation between the artist and Georg Elben, the director of the museum, describes Krebber’s working method and the effect of his works. In the second text, the art historian Maria Müller-Schareck shows how pivotal clay is as a key material for understanding Krebber’s practice. Text in English and German.

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Collapsing industrial buildings and overgrown wastelands suggest that Berlin's Schöneweide district once experienced a different present. Today, the numerous abandoned sites provide a place for many young people to meet in secret. Over three years, photographer Janina Wick established contact with them and visited them, explored the abandoned sites, portrayed the youngsters and also captured the architectural changes. With fresh design, the book documents her perceptive observations and research into youth culture. Text in English and German.

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'Real' animals are increasingly disappearing. Today, animals are 'optimised' almost entirely based on the ideas of people: they are created in the laboratory, bred as organ donors, and their flesh is grown in petri dishes. How are common perceptions of animals changing as a result? The designers and artists in the publication go on a search for the 'right degree' in designing such creatures. They delve through the possibilities of the human-animal relationship and design scenarios for a different future. Artists: Martin Avila, BLESS, Melanie Bonajo, The Center for Genomic Gastronomy, Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell, Center for PostNatural History, Marcus Coates, Thalia de Jong, Aleksandra Domanovic, Konstantin Grcic, Christine Herdin/Katharina Wahl, Max Kosoric/Sanne Pawelzyk, Silvia Knüppel, Dietrich Luft, Christien Meindertsma, Next Nature Network, Ana Rajcevic, Veronica Ranner, Peter Schäfer, Johanna Schmeer, Susana Soares, Sputniko, ThreeASFOUR, Thomas Thwaites, Marije Vogelzang, Pinar Yoldas. Text in English and Dutch.

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André Butzer is one of today's most distinctive and influential painters. For the first time, this volume reveals a little-known side of his oeuvre: 139 never-seen-before works on paper executed between 2001 and 2019. New and exciting scholarship sheds light upon his predominant themes and motives. Following his breakthrough works in the early 2000s, throughout the years, one is able to witness the artistic verve and intimacy, which bring forth his uncompromising mature style.

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Defying traditional portraiture, Wolfgang Strassl (*1956) has made a series of photographs which encapsulates the rich, varied, eclectic and diverse population of London as seen in the democratising space of a carriage on the London Underground. By omitting the face in these portraits, Strassl allows us an undistracted and genuine perusal of these passengers and the stories, which their visual appearances are telling. This also challenges our ability to see, recognise and understand these stories. It is a gentle yet pervasive look at the great sea of humanity travelling in subterranean London and the rich diversity in this contemporary metropolis. Text in English and German.

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A very special artist friendship: in the 1950s, Carlfriedrich Claus (1930-1998) worked on experiments that led to an outstanding synthesis of written and drawn works toward the end of the decade. The artist couple Ilse (*1927) and Pierre Garnier (1928-2014), who were also working in the field of tension between picture-texts and text-pictures, began exchanging letters with him in 1963. Over time, an intensive friendship developed. The exhibition of the Chemnitz Art Collections bore witness to this special bond. The accompanying edition of their correspondence brings together works from nearly four decades of the artists' work as well as artist books, portfolios, and artist magazines. Text in German and French.

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Domeau & Pérès is a company that's known around the world for its high-quality designer furniture in extremely limited editions. But how are these unique pieces created? The catalogue Domeau & Pérès: From Idea to Form reveals the secret of the fascinating history of their development by providing a comprehensive look, from the sketch to the final execution. The publication impressively shows how craft tradition and design innovation come together in the work of Bruno Domeau and Philippe Pérès to create contemporary design. They have collaborated with many of the most important French designers of the past decades, for instance Ronan & Erwan Boouroullec, matali crasset, and Martin Szekely. The catalogue is hence also a mirror of the French design of the 1990s and 2000s. Artists: Bruno Domeau, Philippe Pérès, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, matali crasset, Eric Chevallier, Odile Decq, Jérôme Gauthier, Eric Jourdan, François Mangeol, Christophe Pillet, Elodie Descoubes und Laurent Nicolas, Martin Szekely, Michael Young, Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Text in German and French.

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Canadian artist Kelly Richardson (*1972) belongs to a new generation of artists working with digital technologies to create hyperreal, symbolically highly charged landscapes. Her series of digitally-born works Pillars of Dawn imagines a desert landscape in which environmental conditions have crystallised the terrain. The series presents a scenario in which we might have to look beyond our current planet for refuge and survival, and they raise myriad questions about how we arrived as such a moment of environmental crisis.

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The Irrawaddy River, with its 2,170 kilometres is the longest river in Southeast Asia after the Mekong. It is also the biggest waterway and the most important transport route in Myanmar. The course of the river flows past innumerable Buddhist cultural sites, including Bagan. Past children playing on the riverbanks, past women doing laundry in the water of the river, past meditating monks, past the real life of Myanmar. On May 2, 2008, a cyclone ravaged wide areas of the Irrawaddy Delta and caused the death of over 200,000 individuals, while many others are still suffering today. Reinhard Becker has photographed the river and its people and in this book provides a fascinating look at the landscape, economy, politics, and everyday life along the Irrawaddy.

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This monograph is the first comprehensive publication of Julius von Bismarck's work, which has already attracted considerable notice on account of its inventiveness. The artist uses installations, videos and performances to explore people's ability to perceive, and uses the laws of physics to challenge the way we are used to seeing things. His interdisciplinary approach involves asking questions about the world and nature in a creative way, which gradually transforms the individual. This publication includes accompanying texts that discuss some individual works and examine the questions that are central to his work as a whole. Text in English and German.

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Paco Knöller is one of today's most renowned 'painter-draftsmen'. Published to coincide with his major exhibition Paco Knöller-Zeichnungen und Holzschnitte 1989-2018 (Drawings and Woodcuts) at the Museum Morsbroich, this is the first extensive publication on his drawings. Along with 15 cycles of works from 30 years of creation, this book reveals Knöller's consistent drawing practices and unwavering imaginative potential from the very beginning. His examination of drawing is supplemented with in-depth essays by Hubertus von Amelunxen, Eugen Blume, Fritz Emslander, and Sebastian Kleinschmidt. Text in English and German.

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