"Polish artist Justine Otto (born 1974) depicts in oils a simultaneously seductive and disturbing world of girls and women. Her characters, wearing knowing expressions, engage in mysterious activities, operating machinery or lounging in interiors upon which the natural world of plants and animals seems to encroach. This catalogue collects works from the past four years."
"What was once, still is, and will forever remain is Jessica Backhaus's infallible instinct for pictorial composition, a deftness she continues to take to new heights. Her views of ostensibly prosaic scenes open up to us a cosmos of unforeseen meanings while evoking a mood of affectionate familiarity.Backhaus is regarded as one of the most distinguished voices in contemporary photography today. Her work is exhibited internationally and i ..."
"Since the early 1970s, Luigi Ontani (born 1943) has been building a corpus of works exploring ideas of the sacred and the profane, Occidental and Oriental, kitsch and high art. This volume provides an overview of his diverse activities, including his photographic portraits in which he impersonates Leonardo, Dante, Pinocchio or San Sebastian, ceramic and papier-mâché sculptures, paintings and video works."
"Swiss photographer Balthasar Burkhard (born 1944) makes large-format pictures that bring out the general contours of a repertoire of subjects--primarily bodies and landscapes (both urban and rural)--which are presented in dramatically stark black-and-white contrast to create an effect of extreme formal reduction and breathtaking scale. In his well-known portraits of the Alps, for example, he elicits both delicate detail and epic monumen ..."
"Justine Otto's [pictorial] world is populated with girls, women and animals. […] The metallic gleam that characterises her paintings turns the protagonists into beings for whom nothing, truly nothing, is unknown."
"German artist Cornelia Schleime’s (born 1953) most frequent subject is the female form, merging or coexisting with the kinds of animals one might expect to find in the European countryside--rabbits, deer, turtles and fish. Infused with a subtle eroticism, her paintings, drawings and watercolors exert a fascination that is amply conveyed in this monograph."
"Pulitzer prize-winning photojournalist Anja Niedringhaus (born 1965) has spent more than 20 years documenting combat in locations around the world from the Balkans to Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Israel. As one of the few women working in her field, she labors under extreme conditions with tremendous courage. At War shows a selection of Niedringhaus' most moving images."
"The ceramic figurines of Berlin artist Caro Suerkemper (born 1964) update seventeenth- and eighteenth-century porcelain art with their imagery of women in various states of undress. This volume records her installation of her figurines at the Historic Villa Metzler at the Frankfurt Museum for Applied Art."
"In her new series Jessica Backhaus sets out a quest for traces of time and meaning—things that once were, still are, and will stay forever. Some photographs date from her last year in New York, where she had lived for fourteen years, others tell of her radical break with the past and her return to her homeland in Europe. The personal and cultural changes caused her to contemplate the fragility of our emotions and existence—thoughts the ..."
"This volume takes Franz Gertsch's new Four Seasons cycle, completed in 2011, as an occasion to look back on his paintings, prints and drawings of the past 30 years. One of Switzerland's leading contemporary artists, Gertsch is a virtuoso of hyperrealism, as his newest series demonstrates."
"General Idea was founded in Toronto in 1969 by Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson as a generic identity to free the artists “from the tyranny of individual genius.” Under the leadership of their fictitious muse Miss General Idea, and inspired by William Burroughs' conception of the “image virus,” the collective interrogated media image culture through now legendary projects like File magazine, as well as paintings, installations, ..."
"A recent spate of exhibitions and an upcoming retrospective have drawn increased attention to the Italian Arte Povera pioneer Alighiero Boetti (or, in his identity-suturing guise, Alighiero e ["and"] Boetti) (1940-1994). Perhaps Boetti's best-known works are the textile maps of the world that he commissioned from female weavers in Afghanistan and Pakistan, beginning in 1971. In these maps, every country appears in the color and design o ..."
"The paintings in Eric Fischl's Krefeld Project depict a middle-aged couple in the throes of a long-term relationship, isolated but together, bored but bound. Made from photographs of hired models who inhabited a rented house for four days while the artist snapped more than 2,000 pictures, the paintings show the couple before and after sex, in the shower and brushing teeth, on the toilet and on the phone. According to essayist and poet G ..."
""Phenomena in Space" documents the small-format watercolors of German painter Anke Röhrscheid (born 1965), whose semi-abstract images of gray, spectral, tendril-like forms suspended against black backgrounds connote both dreamy, erotic intimacy and powerful existential isolation."
"This exhibition of works by the Italian artist made between 1965 and 1990 comes from a single-owner's collection. Featuring sixty works, the show charts Boetti's diverse practice that traversed various art movements from Arte Povera to Conceptualism and employed numerous media from embroidery to work carving. "
"Swiss painter Johannes Hüppi (born 1965) depicts young girls in a variety of circumstances and genres--as nudes, as Pieta-style icons, as modern citizens bathed in the glow of the computer screen or bathing nude in the sea. This volume surveys his works of the past 25 years."
Kunst? Ja, Kunst! Die Sehnsucht der Bilder द्वारा Jean-ChristopheAmmann 324 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2014 द्वारा Westend Verlag ISBN-13: 978-3-86489-546-3, ISBN: 3-86489-546-4
"Im Jahre 1962 wurde die Spencer Galerie in Cookham eröffnet, sie ist die einzige
Galerie in Großbritannien, die sich ... dignité, Galerie Schirmann & de Baucé,
Paris, 2011; Das widerspenstige Fleisch, Galerie Peter Tedden, Düsseldorf, 2010
; ..."
Alighiero Boetti Catalogue Raisonné from 1972 to 1979 (Volume 2) द्वारा Jean-ChristopheAmmann, Alighiero Boetti Hardcover, 640 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2013 द्वारा Mondadori Electa (Acc) ISBN-13: 978-88-370-9002-9, ISBN: 88-370-9002-1
"This second part of the cataloge of the work of Boetti, an artist who, to begin with, associated himself with the Arte Povera movement, looks at the crucial period when his work took the form of conceptual poetry."
"Catalogue de la première rétrospective française consacrée au collectif canadien, « Haute Culture : General Idea » composé des artistes Jorge Zontal, Felix Part et AA Bronson."