"In late 1911, Piet Mondrian was about to move to Paris and leave his native country of the Netherlands behind. During this period of artistic and personal transformation he turned to theosophist Adriaan van de Vijsel for an astrological reading. Mondrian was born under the sign of Pisces on 7 March 1872, and according to his horoscope was “very susceptible and [had] psychic tendencies.” He was “able to feel things without being able to ..."
"An extension of this approach, End Note(s) focuses on interpretations of and reflections on what has been said and what has been done during Moderation(s).Each project installment of Moderation(s) - including three residencies, a series of ..."
"The oil portraits of London-based artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977) depict characters who exist outside of a specific time and place. Typically completed in just one day, her pieces feature predominantly black subjects situated on ambiguous, sparse backgrounds. This is her first monograph."
"Dutch multimedia artist Erik van Lieshout's (born 1968) provocative work often deals with violence, politics, sex and commercial culture. This publication elaborates on van Lieshout's vision and perception of the ethnically and culturally diverse city."
"This publication is released in conjunction with Julio Le Parc's exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries in London (25 November 2014 15 February 2015). It presents, for the first time, Le Parc s unseen series of drawings and sketches, making evident the links between his (light) installations and his drawings. The book also includes a new poem by Le Parc: Written for the book originally in Spanish, Mano, no me olvides (Hand, Don t Forget ..."
"Houston, Texas–based multimedia artist Sondra Perry (born 1986) creates narratives that explore the imagining or imaging of blackness throughout history. Often drawing on her own life as a point of departure, she makes works that revolve around black American experiences and the ways in which technology and identities are entangled. Her use of digital tools and platforms such as Chroma key blue screens, 3D avatars, open source software ..."
"This volume accompanies the eponymous exhibition at the Sharjah Art Museum―two parallel solo shows by Angela Bulloch and Maria Zerres brought together under one title, framed by the notion of entropy. Likewise, the publication takes the form of two separate but related exhibition catalogues, each leading toward the book's center.A key term that characterizes the movement toward chaos, entropy appears in a variety of fields such as physi ..."
"The latest photographer commissioned by the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art to document Rotterdam is Lidwien van de Ven (born 1963). An artist who works in a realm parallel to photojournalism, Van de Ven chose to reverse the city-specific mandate of the project and portray Rotterdam as a microcosm of global developments at the intersection of politics and religion. Her photographs show how the visible and invisible are continu ..."
"This "Source Book" combines critical essays and visual notes compiled by the Canadian-born, Berlin-based sculptor, installation and sound artist, over the course of a collaboration with composer and musician George van Dam and a TV script written by Christine Lang and Christoph Dreher."
"Arthur Jafa (born 1960) has worked as a cinematographer with such legendary directors as Stanley Kubrick and Spike Lee; he has also worked on music videos for well-known artists such as Jay-Z, Beyoncé and Solange Knowles. However, Los Angeles–based Jafa has recently emerged as a powerful artist in his own right. A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions presents Jafa's image-based work through the chopping and juxtapo ..."
"Jimmie Durham (b. 1940) is an internationally acclaimed artist, writer and poet of Cherokee descent. His intricate sculptures and installations mimic the attributes of human beings and animals, and the ways they make or are made into history. Durham collages discarded objects and fragments of organic matter, transforming them with dazzling colour into startling, anthropomorphic configurations. His ersatz ethnographic displays deliver ir ..."
"Over the course of two decades, Belgian artist Edith Dekyndt (born 1960) has amassed a repertoire of single-channel video projections, slide projections, sculptures and sound works. This "Source Book" offers access to Dekyndt's inspirations in literary fiction, film and music, and records "Agnosia," her solo exhibition at Witte de With in the spring of 2009."
"The publication 'Light & Space' refers to the art movement of the same name--a tendency born in Southern California characterized by experimentation, interdisciplinarity, and a move away from object-centric practices.The publication points ..."
"This publication comprises a commissioned essay by art historian, curator and academic, Dawn Adès, whose writing provides an exciting and fresh perspective on Oehlen's work, an insightful letter as artwork by artist André Butzer, as well ..."
"A rich compendium of texts, both fiction and nonfiction, selected by Jafa, give an expanded picture of the many different inspirations and sources that lie behind his work.0With texts by John Akomfrah, Jean Baudrillard, Judith Butler, Tina ..."
"The Serpentine Architecture Program expands for 2016, with four Summer Houses joining the Serpentine Pavilion. The Pavilion, designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), is an unzipped wall that is transformed from straight line to three-dimensional space, creating a dramatic structure that by day houses a cafe and by night becomes a space for the Serpentine's Park Nights performance program. Kunle Adeyemi's Summer House is an inverse replica ..."
"This catalogue presents the work of Simon Denny (born 1982), who produces sculptural installations incorporating print, graphics, moving images and texts. Products for Organising features new pieces that comment on contemporary management techniques and other historical organizational forms."