"Masks disguise us, keeping those around us from seeing who we really are. In a theatrical production, as part of Carnival, or during African tribal rites, they allow us to become someone or something other than our everyday selves. They may offer protection, concealing our identity. They may even serve as a memento, as in death masks, or the plaster casts that were sometimes taken of a famous person’s face following death. Given their d ..."
"Das Medium Film spielt im Schaffen vieler zeitgenössischer Künstler eine wichtige Rolle. Sie gestalten damit nicht nur ihre Werke, sondern lassen sich auch vom Prozess und den Produktionsbedingungen von Filmen inspirieren. Umgekehrt hegen Filmschaffende ein besonderes Interesse für die bildende Kunst und ihre Schöpfer. Künstlerporträts, Biopics sowie Werkdokumentationen finden immer wieder ein grosses Publikum, und die Filme prägen auch ..."
"João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva's films, sculptures, photographs and camera obscura installations capture magical moments from everyday life, carrying the viewer off on a fascinating journey into the realm of the mysterious.In addition, ..."
"When we think of pop art, we think of the vanguard American pop artists: Andy Warhol and his iconic Campbell’s Soup Cans, the Ben-Day dotted comic strip style of Roy Lichtenstein, and the collages of appropriated materials Robert Rauschenberg called his “combines.” Less well known—but well worth discovering—are the Swiss artists who contributed to this international movement of pivotal importance, taking up the trends coming out of the ..."
"When his 24-hour film "The Clock" was awarded the Golden Lion at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011, Christian Marclay's hour had struck. Yet as an artist, performer and pioneer of turntablism, the Swiss-American Christian Marclay (born 1955) had already been famous for his complex oeuvre for more than 30 years, translating sounds and music into visual forms in his performances, installations, collages, sculptures and photographs, creatin ..."
"This first comprehensive monograph on the provocative British conceptual artist Mark Wallinger, born in 1959 and winner of the 2007 Turner Prize, includes key works from the 1980s through today. In his intelligent and often humorous artworks, Wallinger addresses current social themes in a variety of media--including painting, video and installation--to focus on issues relating to religion, politics and cultural identity. Probably best k ..."
" The writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) had an enormous influence on the visual arts. This publication is the first attempt to extensively document and discuss aspects of this influence. Walser was a source of inspiration not just for other writers like Hermann Hesse, Robert Musil and Franz Kafka, but also for many musicians and artists. This book attempts to explore the cultural and historical dimensions of this phenomenon, examining bot ..."
Fiona Tan Vox Populi, Switzerland द्वारा Fiona Tan, MadeleineSchuppli Paperback, 128 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2011 द्वारा Book Works ISBN-13: 978-1-906012-28-1, ISBN: 1-906012-28-8
"Globe-spanning artist Fiona Tan presents the fourth publication in her continually surprising Vox Populi series: a ''snapshot'' of Switzerland selected from a random collection of family photo albums. These intimate, private pictures, when presented as a collection, reveal shared intimacies and humor, and shared Swiss traditions such as Christmas holidays and dining tables laden with elaborate cakes and pastries. These may appear, at fi ..."
"Mixing menace and unease with buoyancy and optimism, Swiss-born, New York-based artist Ugo Rondinone (born 1963) infuses his sculptures, drawings, videos, photographs, sound art and text works with a wide repertoire of fantasies and fears. Rondinone is famed for his celebratory, rainbow-colored "Hell, Yes!" sign, emblazoned on the New Museum's frontage on the occasion of its 2007 opening. At the other end of his emotional-artistic spect ..."
"This monograph is devoted to Ugo Rondinone. Using photography, video, painting, drawing, sculpture, sound, and text by turns, he is a virtuoso of forms and techniques."
"Simon Dybbroe Møller's first monograph folds Modernist art history into something new. His interest stems in part from personal nostalgia and in part from intellectual fascination; he once told an interviewer, "You and I grew up in a society where a certain kind of provincial Modernism has had a major influence on how schools are constructed and everything. Furthermore, Modernism represents--and I guess it is almost a cliché to say--the ..."
"Borrowing its title from a George Brecht aphorism, "Yesterday Will Be Better" examines a recent upsurge in the use of mnemonics in art. Among the artists drawing on such devices are Pierre Bismuth, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Hans Peter Feldmann, Cyprien Gaillard, Douglas Gordon, Alexander Heim, Susan Hiller, Oskar Muñoz, Lorna Simpson, Fiona Tan and Adam Thompson."
Da qualche parte sulla terra. Luzern, Poschiavo Edizioni Periferia, 2006. 46 Seiten mit Abbildungen. Kartoniert. Grossoktav. द्वारा MadeleineSchuppli Paperback, 48 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2006 द्वारा Edizioni Periferia ISBN-13: 978-3-907474-31-0, ISBN: 3-907474-31-7
"Bei dieser Publikation handelt es sich um ein Bindeglied zwischen zwei Ausstellungen von Claudia & Julia Müller: im Kunstmuseum Thun sowie im Grazer Kunstverein, welche unter dem Titel "Claudia & Julia Müller" von 10. Dezember 2004 bis 5. Februar 2005 in Graz lief.
Für beide Ausstellungen wurde jeweils ein spezifisches Konzept entwickelt, um die Arbeiten der Künstlerinnen, an die jeweils unterschiedlichen örtlichen Gegebenheiten angepas ..."