Tom Burr. Moods
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Text by Anke Kempkes. This witty exhibition catalogue collects Burrs recent installation at the Vienna Secession. Sculptural and collaged works create an assemblage that oscillates between interior architectural elements, catwalk and abstract form. The titles of the works and the objects themselves refer to personalities like Jean Cocteau and Truman Capote. "Artful Acts(...)
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January 2008, Vienne
Tom Burr. Moods
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Text by Anke Kempkes. This witty exhibition catalogue collects Burrs recent installation at the Vienna Secession. Sculptural and collaged works create an assemblage that oscillates between interior architectural elements, catwalk and abstract form. The titles of the works and the objects themselves refer to personalities like Jean Cocteau and Truman Capote. "Artful Acts and renderings. Aesthetic blurs and blending in Aging frown and Aging grin. And, endless idle chattering."
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This first monograph devoted to the work of the influential and transgressive New York City painter of all things excessive, queer, abject, kitsch and twisted features selected works from 1994-2004--including drawings, paintings, collages and installations. Eisenman's work runs the gamut of visual references from Surrealism to Pointillism to WPA murals to name but a few,(...)
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January 2008
Nicole Eisenman selected works: 1994-2004
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This first monograph devoted to the work of the influential and transgressive New York City painter of all things excessive, queer, abject, kitsch and twisted features selected works from 1994-2004--including drawings, paintings, collages and installations. Eisenman's work runs the gamut of visual references from Surrealism to Pointillism to WPA murals to name but a few, deftly moving from orgiastic crowds to Dionysian sacrifices, minotaur hunts and romps through art history and pop culture. Yet the wit and scope of Eisenman's vision often disguise the intimacy of her work. Here, cliches are turned inside out, gender roles are questioned, and one is engaged without fully realizing that the lushly painted scenes are always revealing something very personal. Features an essay by the painter Amy Sillman, a "panel discussion" between some of Eisenman's paintings by Matt Sharpe, and a biography.
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Volume three of Raad's series of artists' books includes recent work that focuses on the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and on the ammunition trade during Lebanon's civil war. Raad produces performances, videos and photographs; in 1999, he founded The Atlas Group, a fictitious archive that documents the contemporary history of Lebanon.
March 2008, Seattle
Walid Raad: the atlas group volume 3
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Volume three of Raad's series of artists' books includes recent work that focuses on the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and on the ammunition trade during Lebanon's civil war. Raad produces performances, videos and photographs; in 1999, he founded The Atlas Group, a fictitious archive that documents the contemporary history of Lebanon.
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Text by Philipp Kaiser, Polly Staple, Karl Holmqvist, Interview by Helena Selder. The video works of the Swedish artist and 2007 Documenta participant Johanna Billing, born in 1973, occupy an unusual terrain between documentary and staged scientific experiment. Billing depicts the rituals of society by filming, for example, a group of young people as they reconstruct a(...)
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February 2008, Basel/Dundee
Johanna Billing. Look behind us, a blue sky
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Text by Philipp Kaiser, Polly Staple, Karl Holmqvist, Interview by Helena Selder. The video works of the Swedish artist and 2007 Documenta participant Johanna Billing, born in 1973, occupy an unusual terrain between documentary and staged scientific experiment. Billing depicts the rituals of society by filming, for example, a group of young people as they reconstruct a long-forgotten experiment, or a group of artists singing a melancholy ballad together in a gesture of solidarity. By focusing on the dialectical interplay between the individual and the community, Billing reveals processes of social erosion--but without asserting emphatic judgment of these processes. The artists video works--among them the well-known works You Don't Love Me Yet (2003) and Magical World (2005)--have been shown in many international group exhibitions, but this publication is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of her profoundly atmospheric productions.
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"Objects are itemized and memorialized. Industry is prized. Packages are shown in a states of assembly, to be mentally constructed or deconstructed and assigned larger meaning to. People can peruse the installation as one does stacks in a library or bookstore, hoping to stumble across something that will enlighten or delight. Welcome." Christine Hill
Minutes. Work by Christine Hill
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"Objects are itemized and memorialized. Industry is prized. Packages are shown in a states of assembly, to be mentally constructed or deconstructed and assigned larger meaning to. People can peruse the installation as one does stacks in a library or bookstore, hoping to stumble across something that will enlighten or delight. Welcome." Christine Hill
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Amy O'Neill
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The sculptures, installations, and drawings by the New York-based artist (*1971) are presented in this first monograph as a journey through the American suburban imagination.
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March 2008
Amy O'Neill
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The sculptures, installations, and drawings by the New York-based artist (*1971) are presented in this first monograph as a journey through the American suburban imagination.
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Euan Macdonalds Selected Standards is an artist book that combines title pages from sheet music found in a second hand store in Los Angeles with drawings and aerial photographs of LA.
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March 2008, Vancouver
Euan Macdonald. Selected standards
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Euan Macdonalds Selected Standards is an artist book that combines title pages from sheet music found in a second hand store in Los Angeles with drawings and aerial photographs of LA.
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Album III is the book version of Luis Jacob's installation for 2007's Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany. The project consists of hundreds of images found and copied from various books, magazines and other publications, as well as the Internet. This exhaustive volume is 160 pages long and minimally designed, with only two to five images on a page--no text, no descriptions.(...)
Album III image bank by Luis Jacob
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Album III is the book version of Luis Jacob's installation for 2007's Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany. The project consists of hundreds of images found and copied from various books, magazines and other publications, as well as the Internet. This exhaustive volume is 160 pages long and minimally designed, with only two to five images on a page--no text, no descriptions. The images speak for themselves. Coming from public sources, the pictures are grouped on each page formally, conceptually and intuitively, so that, for example, on a given page one might find a grainy black-and-white photograph of a pile of sausages in a butcher's window next to a saturated color image of a boxer's punching bag. The reader is invited to make his or her own associations and invent narratives through these visual puns. Sometimes humorous, sometimes bland and even sometimes devastating, this museum of found photography incorporates images that span from the early twentieth century to today.
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Paul Chan the 7 lights
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The American artist Paul Chan has gained international acclaim for his video work, drawings and installations that blend a novel drafting aesthetic with philosophical reflections on politics, religion, sex and life. This beautifully produced monograph, published on the occasion of Chan's highly anticipated one-person exhibition at New York's recently unveiled New Museum(...)
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December 2007, London
Paul Chan the 7 lights
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The American artist Paul Chan has gained international acclaim for his video work, drawings and installations that blend a novel drafting aesthetic with philosophical reflections on politics, religion, sex and life. This beautifully produced monograph, published on the occasion of Chan's highly anticipated one-person exhibition at New York's recently unveiled New Museum of Contemporary Art, presents the first significant overview of Chan's work. Spanning from the late 1990s through today, it is named for Chan's most recent project, The 7 Lights (2005-07), a series of large-scale digital projections and drawings that "hallucinate" the Seven Days of Creation.
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Marcus Kenney
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Pop collages featuring commercial products and degenerate symbols of America, a cross-section of a magnolia tree rung with nails, kewpie doll sculptures and papier mache monkey figures are just some of the artworks featured in this excellent monograph. Henry Darger, Hokusai and Tom Wesselmann spring equally to mind.
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February 2008, Savannah
Marcus Kenney
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Pop collages featuring commercial products and degenerate symbols of America, a cross-section of a magnolia tree rung with nails, kewpie doll sculptures and papier mache monkey figures are just some of the artworks featured in this excellent monograph. Henry Darger, Hokusai and Tom Wesselmann spring equally to mind.
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February 2008, Savannah
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