Main entry:

Weibel, Peter, author, editor.

Title & Author:

Negative space : trajectories of sculpture in the 20th and 21st centuries / conceived and written by Peter Weibel ; edited by Peter Weibel with Anett Holzheid.

Publication:

Karlsruhe, Germany : ZKM / Center for Art and Media, [2021]
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Distributed by the MIT Press
©2021

Description:

677 pages, 27 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, photographs ; 31 cm

Notes:
Original title in English. Title of exhibition in German: Negativer Raum.
Includes bibliographical references and index of works.
Preface -- Negative space in the 20th and 21st centuries: theses -- On some basic principles of spatial sculptures -- Signature works -- Mathematical models -- Planar sculptures -- Linear sculptures -- Spatial constructions -- Suspended sculptures -- Shadow spaces and sculptures -- Mirror spaces and sculptures -- Virtual spaces and spatial illusions -- Shapes of the void -- List of Works.
Texts in English, translated from the German.

Exhibitions:

Published to accompany exhibit held at the ZKM / Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, April 6, 2019 - August 11, 2019--Colophon.

Summary:

This monumental, richly illustrated volume from ZKM Karlsruhe approaches modern sculpture from a spatial perspective, interpreting it though contour, emptiness, and levitation rather than the conventional categories of unbroken volume, mass, and gravity. It examines works by dozens of twentieth- and twenty-first-century artists, including Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Lygia Clark, Anish Kapoor, Olafur Eliasson, Ana Mendieta, Fujiko Nakaya, Tomás Saraceno, and Alicja Kwade. The large-scale book contains over 800 color images. 'Negative Space' comes out of an epic exhibition at ZKM, and volume editor Peter Weibel (Chairman and CEO of ZKM) takes a curatorial approach to the topic. The last exhibition to deal comprehensively with the question "What is modern sculpture?" was at the Centre Georges Pompidou in 1986. Weibel and ZKM pick up where the Pompidou left off, examining sculptures not as figurative, solid, and self-contained monoliths but in terms of open and hollow spaces; reflection, light, shadow; innovative materials; data; and the moving image. Weibel puts advances in science, architecture, and mathematics in the context of avant-garde sensibilities to show how modern sculpture significantly deviates from the work of the past. Texts in the volume include an introduction and twelve chapters written by Weibel with contributions by cocurators as well as facsimiles and reproductions of artist-authored manifestos. Exhibition: ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (April 6, 2019 - August 11, 2019).
"Before 1900, sculpture was based on the mimetic embodiment of humans, animals, and objects. Space itself was not its concern. But with the new experiences of space and time brought about by the Industrial Revolution and its technology--moving machines, such as trains and cars, and the emerging telecommunications media--the historical categories of plastic arts such as mass, volume, and gravity, derived from the body, until then the only medium of spatial and temporal experience, were rigorously denied. This radical rupture from body-bound and object-oriented figurative sculpture and the transition to abstract vectors of space disclose a paradox: when sculpture after 1900 conceived the shaping of space as its only domain, these spatial sculptures were defined through negations of hitherto dominant sculptural characteristics: void instead of volume, vacuum instead of mass, airy instead of solid, weightless instead of heavy, virtual instead of real, shadow instead of light, abstract instead of figurative. Artists focused on the new shapes of these empty, interstitial, and negative spaces. Using rediscovered documents from art history and cross-bridging the artistic with mathematical models, this monumental and richly illustrated book from ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe demonstrates a new theory about modern sculpture's fundamental differences from works of the past. Negative Spaces unfolds the revolutionary trajectories of abstract sculpture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: from linear and planar, suspended and pneumatic sculptures to virtual volumes and immersive environments."-- Publisher's description, page [4] of jacket.

ISBN:

9780262044868 (hardcover)
0262044862 (hardcover)

Subject:

Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe Exhibitions 21st century.
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe 21st century.
Sculpture, Modern 20th century.
Sculpture, Modern 21st century.
Sculpture, Abstract 20th century.
Sculpture, Abstract 21st century.
Space (Art)
Espace (Art)
Sculpture 20e siècle.
Sculpture 21e siècle.
Sculpture abstraite 20e siècle.
Sculpture abstraite 21e siècle.
Art, Modern

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Illustrated works.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Holzheid, Anett, editor.
Hubenthal, Patrick, translator.
Lawler, Dan, translator.
Dahm Robertson, Peter, translator.
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, issuing body, publisher, organizer, host institution.
Germany Karlsruhe.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315078
Call No.: 315078
Copy: 1
Status: Available