Search

Title:
Michal Budny

Actions:

• Buy book

Price:
$54.00
(available to order)

Summary:
Using the simplest tools and materials (predominantly paper and cardboard), Polish artist Michal Budny (born 1976) creates formally restrained sculptures that range in size from tiny models to monumental installations and site-specific works. In addition to objects and places, Budny attempts to represent abstract phenomena that lack a fixed material form, such as voice, memory, rain and sunlight.

Title:
Exhaustion et exhauberance

Actions:

• Buy book

Price:
$6.00
(available in store)

Summary:
A pamphlet for the exhibition "ART SHEFFIELD 08: Yes, No and Other Options"

Title:
Tell me what you want, what you really, really want

Actions:

• Buy book

Price:
$29.95
(available to order)

Summary:
Tell Me What You Want, What You Really, Really Want brings together a selection of recent writings by art critic Jan Verwoert for the first time. Published in collaboration with Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, the book galvanizes central themes Verwoert has been developing in pursuit of a language to describes art’s transformative potential in conceptual, performative, and emotional terms. He analyzes the power of public gestures to constitute communities as well as the pressure to perform that governs the sphere of creative labor, in order to show how particular artists perform gestures and invoke community differently. Exploring the emotional power games that shape social relations, Verwoert looks for an alternative ethos of action and feeling, asking: How can a modernist approach to artistic form as a means of social critique be expanded to fully avow its subliminal affective undercurrents, and produce a pleasurably crooked form of criticality in art and writing?

Title:
Bas Jan Ader: in the search of the miraculous

Actions:

• Buy book

Price:
$16.95
(available to order)

Summary:
In 1975 Bas Jan Ader disappeared at sea while trying to sail from the East Coast of the United States to Europe as part of a project titled In Search of the Miraculous. The circumstances of his disappearance have led many interpreters to identify Ader (as a person) with the role of the tragic romantic hero. The cult status of the artist as a hero whose work is authenticated through his death, however, has obscured the fact that Ader's art was a critical investigation of precisely those romantic motives his persona has now come to be identified with. This book unpicks these ties in Ader's work in order to highlight the specific and unique way in which Ader explores the existential and emotional with an artistic approach that is as conceptual and analytic as it is poetic and personal. Jan Verwoert lives in Hamburg and works as a freelance writer. He is a member of the advisory board of the Kunstverein Munich and Guest Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory at the Academy of Umeå.