"The art of Ulrike Ottinger (born 1942) straddles ethnographic observation and mythological narration. Through a dense network of images from other countries and thematically linked objects and wall pieces, "World Images" documents an installation that highlights both similarities and distinctions between cultures."
"In the last two years the German art scene has experienced a tremendous growth unlike anything since the early 1980s-owing to a revitalized Berlin and an ever-expanding cultural diversity. German Open captures this energy by giving an overview of more than 30 of the best young artists working in Germany today. The artists documented represent the entire spectrum of visual art, from installation to painting to video, and their work can n ..."
"Since the 1990s, Rachel Harrison (born 1966) has developed a colorful and delightfully grotesque sculptural idiom out of the most contemporary detritus--styrofoam, plastic buckets, vacuum cleaners--which she blends with slapstick humor and art historical and pop cultural references. "Fake Titel" presents sculptures and drawings from three recent series: "The Help" (2012), the large-scale installation "Incidents of Travel in Yucatan" (20 ..."
"English Version - englische Fassung
* 48 Seiten
* Gestaltung: HIT London/ Berlin
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* Leipzig 2011
* ISBN: 978-3-940064-13-4
* 28.00 €
Die Publikation »Faites le travail qu'accomplit le soleil« erschien anläßlich der Ausstellung von Olaf Nicolai in der kestnergesellschaft Hannover. Sie übersetzt die Themen und das Formvokabular der Ausstellung in den Raum des Buches: Ein Rundgang durch die Ausstellung als Comic. ..."
"New York artist Phoebe Washburn is presenting the largest and most complex installation she has ever been able to realize during her career. She takes up themes like globalization and ecology in her work and frequently turns to found materials, giving them a new function within the artwork and thus creating new frames of reference. A critique of consumer society or an appeal for environmental awareness are of secondary importance for th ..."
"This book presents a new and spectacular work by the most innovative of America’s contemporary artists: Bruce Nauman’s installation “One Hundred Fish Fountain.” Ninety-seven bronze fish are attached to a steel frame and connected by numerous hoses to pumps, so that the fish suck in and spew out water."
"Jochen Plogsties is renowned for his “retranslations” of well-known works of art, from the Mona Lisa to Picasso’s Seated Harlequin to works by Rembrandt, Ingres, and Vermeer, as well as the iconic Beatles photograph at Abbey Road. More than mere copies, Plogsties’s paintings call attention to the many ways it is possible to approach an original and prompt the question of whether it is even possible to create a true copy. In the words o ..."
"Alex Katz is one of the foremost representatives of American painting in the international art world. In New York in the 1950s, his large-format, stencil-like portraits and landscapes set a striking counterpoint to abstract expressionism. Katz developed a signature pictorial language early on, characterized by outlined forms, clear colors, and flatness influenced by the imagery of the cinema, advertising, and fashion. The catalog presen ..."
"Raymond Pettibon is one of the most distinctive and highly regarded American artists of his generation. In the thousands of drawings he has produced over the last two decades, Pettibon stakes out a thematic territory that combines the bright, shiny world of American mass culture with its darkly complex undertows. Pettibon's imagery largely derives from the world of cartoons and popular culture: surfers, trains, baseball players, and car ..."
"With twenty-one international contemporary artists, Back to Black examines the significance of black in recent painting. Black as a color in its own right only came into acceptance again in the twentieth century amongst artists such as Matisse and, later, Rauschenberg, Rothko, and Stella.Black has been a challenge to painters of all eras—and not only because of its symbolism. Black is the absence of color. Even perceiving it is difficul ..."
"Michaël Borremans frequently exhibits his paintings and films together, drawing out painterly qualities from film and cinematic qualities from paint to elucidate moody scenarios of "automated" behavior--scenarios in which the actions and poses of individual people or groups seem to be trapped in a loop of melancholia and unspecified woe, or what one critic has called a "Theatre of the Absurd," evoking not so much the theatrical movement ..."
"Born in 1963, Franz Ackermann is one of the most influential German artists of his generation. Travel is of fundamental importance to his work: at a given site, Ackermann fixes his personal perceptions into "mental maps." These imaginary maps of city and countryside are eventually turned into large-format paintings, which he later develops into installations made up of drawings, paintings, photography, film, objects, text and sculptural ..."
"Installations full of wordplay ("spot the dog") and films full of sky: Welsh-Parisian Bethan Huws's work in a wide range of media plays well together on the page, in part because the kinetic scribbles of her colored-pencil storyboards share both the vivacity of her texts and the pastoral colors of her film."
"Michael Sailstorfer (born 1979 in Velden/Vils, lives and works in Berlin) focuses primarily on the relationship between motion and stillness and the object s pure physical condition, which he enriches using his ideas and modes of operation. His works go far beyond visual perception and speak through sound, vibrations, and even smells that address the viewer s other senses. Transformation and dematerialization are recurring focal points ..."
"An artist possessed of genuine-and genuinely wild-imagination, Kumi Machida (born in 1970) has made international waves with her austere brushwork depicting biomorphic-androidal humans in states of arousal, communion or both. Machida combines a classical education in the Japanese tradition of Nihonga painting with contemporary motifs to forge a comic-book style, somewhat redolent of otaku culture, that is all her own. The eroticism of M ..."
"At the Venice Biennale of 2003, Santiago Sierra walled in the entrance to the Spanish Pavilion and hired security guards to keep viewers out. Only those who held valid Spanish passports were allowed the privilege of entering the building. Non-Spanish visitors were puzzled, insulted, irate, annoyed, and more--though they should hardly have been surprised, given Sierra's history of aggressively toying with economic, political, and social ..."
""Alles Gleich Schwer"--which translates in English to "Everything Has an Equal Weight"--presents the first institutional solo exhibition of work by the influential Austrian designer-turned-artist Helmut Lang. Having given up fashion design in 2005, Lang views his transformation not as a break but a continuation of his essential preoccupation with the combination of evocative textures. From the physical body and its social and sculptural ..."
"This publication examines Austrian multimedia artist Heimo Zobernig's (born 1958) work with painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and furniture design, video, performance and music. Focusing on simple, geometric forms of abstraction, Zobernig uses everyday materials such as cardboard, styrofoam, pressboard, linen and fluorescent lights."