"How can artists maintain the tension between globalization’s paradoxes and history’s turbulences and their individual sensibilities and voices? In light of recent tumultuous historical developments, this book, accompanying an exhibition at WIELS, Brussels, discusses the striking absence of art museums in urgent, public debate. Although museums–especially those devoted to contemporary art–have never been as popular as they are today, the ..."
"An updated edition of the first - and still most authoritative - book on the legendary American iconoclast Twenty years ago, Phaidon published what has become the definitive study of Arkansas-born Jimmie Durham's career. This highly anticipated new edition brings this important book up to date, tracing his remarkable life from his experiences in the US, Mexico, and Europe - including his early involvement with the American Indian Moveme ..."
"Belgian artist David Claerbout investigates temporality and phenomenology through digital and photographic means. This first comprehensive monograph features works from 1996-2007, and includes essays and never-before-published preparatory drawings."
"Utilizing drawing, found objects, paper, vitrines, newspapers, collage and sculpture, Belgian artist Joëlle Tuerlinckx (born 1958) subverts museum presentations of archival material, inquiring into basic knowledge structures. This volume explores her works of the past three decades."
""As a filmmaker my tool is memory, not film," says David Claerbout in The Time That Remains, "and memory likes a good composition." Although originally trained as a painter and a draughtsman, Claerbout (born 1969) has taken Belgium and the world by storm with his epic video installations. These installations are devised in his own studio, where he collects and arranges thousands of stills and scans into slow and deliberate moving films. ..."
"Featuring interviews with and artwork by such hot young British artists as Mona Hatoum, Sam Taylor-Wood, Rachel Whiteread, Willie Doherty, Tracey Emin, Douglas Gordon, Abigail Lane, Angela Bulloch, and Sarah Lucas, "Art from the UK" documents an exhibition at the Goetz Collection in Munich. The Goetz Collection is one of the most important collections devoted solely to contemporary art, and is housed in its own small private museum, des ..."
"French conceptual artist Bruno Serralongue (born 1968) travels to the sites of breaking news, such as the retrocession of Hong Kong to China, working independently alongside photojournalists or on commissions for daily newspapers. In the fashion of early Conceptual art, Serralongue examines the conditions under which information is produced and disseminated in such circumstances."
"This catalogue is the most comprehensive treatment of Michaela Melián's oeuvre to date and constitutes, with numerous essays and illustrations, a long due documentation of the German artist's work. The texts discuss how, since the late 1980s, Melián has consistently pursued a strategy of rendering visible the social―that complex web of power, system, gender, and class―uncovering it, even where it lies buried by familiarity and habit. Co ..."
"This is the final From publication after 33 exhibitions, 171 artists, 23 publications, countless special projects, educational programs, debates and performances that form the sum total of Bartomeu Mari's years as Director at the Witte de With The cities of Rotterdam and Porto were joined in 2001 as Cultural Capitals of Europe. From 5 documents two major exhibitions taking place in the last half of 2001 - The People's Art and Squatters ..."
"Featuring established and emerging photographers including Thomas Ruff, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Beat Streuli, Thomas Struth, Nobuyoshi Araki, Anna and Bernhard Blume, Baltasar Burkhard, Günter Förg, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Martin Liebscher, Inge Rambow, and Jörg Sasse, "XL-Photography" presents the photography collection of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, assembled by Jean-Christophe Amman, Director of the Museum ..."
"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 ..."
"This volume features large-scale reproductions of her works, much of it newly photographed, allowing the reader to appreciate de Jong's keen attention to color and the values of opacity and transparency of paint."
"Dutch artist Erik van Lieshout (born 1968) first became known in the early 2000s for his visceral videos in which he often plays a central role, shown in environments of his own making: installations whose rough, bricolaged forms belie their sophistication. This monograph showcases his provocative, often satirical work."
Über Peter Friedl द्वारा DirkSnauwaert Paperback, 230 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2013 द्वारा Wiels / Motto Books ISBN-13: 978-2-940524-04-4, ISBN: 2-940524-04-1
"GERMAN TEXTS ONLY -- Vielgestaltig, heterogen und schwer zu fassen erscheint das künstlerische Werk von Peter Friedl (geb. 1960), einem der wichtigsten Künstler seiner Generation. Als konzeptuelle Akte und ästhetische Modelle sind seine Arbeiten beschrieben worden, die sich aus dem Fundus unterschiedlicher Formen, Genres und Denkfiguren bedienen. Wie kaum ein anderer Gegenwartskünstler lädt er dazu ein, den darin verborgenen und wirksam ..."
"Antwerp-based Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, born in 1951, is known in European art circles for her interdisciplinary practice that combines drawing, painting, computer-generated images, video, film, light boxes, text and exhibition designs. This retrospective exhibition catalogue collects all of this work, focusing mainly on her films and her diarylike drawings from the past 30 years."