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Critical condition

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This publication accompanies the 2003 annual project The Open City: Models for Use.

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Roni Horn: everything was sleeping as if the universe were a mistake

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This book, published to accompany an exhibition held at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, comprises a profound study of American visual artist and writer Roni Horn’s most representative works, such as the series inspired on her journeys to Iceland, in which she gives crucial emphasis to nature and landscape, isolation and solitude. Literature and the written word are essential presences in her works, yet her oeuvre also encompasses sculptures, drawings, photographs and installations. Besides numerous images, the book includes a conversation with Julie Ault, an essential text for understanding Horn’s creative processes, references and influences.

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Self-organised

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Artists, curators and critics discuss empirical and theoretical approaches from Europe, Africa and South and North America on how self-organization today oscillates between the self and the group, self-imposed bureaucratization and flexibility, aestheticization and activism.

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Come alive! the spirited art of Sister Corita

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Admired by Charles and Ray Eames, Buckmister Fuller and Saul Bass, Sister Corita Kent (1918-1986) was one of the most innovative and unusual pop artist of the 1960s, battling the political and religious establishments, revolutionizing graphic design and encouraging the creativity of thousands of people - all while living and practicing as a Catholic nun in California. Mixing advertising slogans and poetry in her prints and commandeering nuns and students to help make ambitious installations, processions and banners, Sister Corita's work is now recognized as some of the most striking - and joyful - American art of the 60s. But, at the end of the decade and at the height of her fame and prodigious work rate, she left the convent where she had spent her adult life. Julie Ault's book is the first to examine Corita's life and career, containing more then 90 illustrations, many reproduced for the first time, capturing the artist's use of vibrant and day-glo colors.

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Felix Gonzalez-Torres

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Felix Gonzalez-Torres, one of the most influential artists of his generation, lived and worked resolutely according to his own democratic ideology, determined to “make this a better place for everyone.” Combining principles of conceptual art, minimalism, political activism and poetic beauty, Gonzalez-Torres’s ever-changing arsenal included public billboards, give-away piles of candy or posters, and ordinary objects (clocks, mirrors, light fixtures) often used to startling effect. His work challenged the notions of public and private space, originality, authorship and—most significantly—the authoritative structure in which he functioned. Now in its second edition, Gonzalez-Torres’s editor Julie Ault has amassed a comprehensive monograph of this important artist. In the spirit of the artist’s method, Ault rethinks the very idea of what a monograph should be. The book, which places strong emphasis on the written word, contains texts by Robert Storr and Miwon Kwon among other notables, as well as significant critical essays, exhibition statements, transcripts from lectures, personal correspondence, and writings that influenced Gonzalez-Torres and his work. Ample visual documentation adds another decisive layer of content. We see works not just in their finality, but often witness their transformation over a lifespan. This collection is a critical reference for the history of contemporary art.