"German artist, filmmaker and theorist Hito Steyerl (born 1966) has emerged as one of the most influential cultural figures of our time. She has published extensively, with essays such as “In Defense of the Poor Image” reaching “instant classic” status and books such as The Wretched of the Screen and Duty Free Art cementing her place in art-world discourse. And yet Steyerl’s art has not received the monographic treatment, until now. The ..."
"Iraqi-American artist Rakowitz reconstructed thousands of artefacts looted from the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad, and those more recently destroyed at Middle Eastern archaeological sites Published to accompany an exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, running until August 2019, and at Castello de Rivoli, Turin, in October 2019 Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz's (b. 1973, USA) first major European survey presents a se ..."
"Conceived by Atkins as an artist’s book, the main body is a collage of imagery, text, and graphical elements. Ed Atkins makes videos, draws, and writes, reflexively performing the ways in which contemporary modes of representation attempt to do justice to powerfully emotional experience. Atkins’ work is at once a disturbing diagnosis of a digitally mediated present day and an absurd prophecy of things to come. It is skeptical of th ..."
"Published on the occasion of the first major retrospective in an Italian institution dedicated to German artist Paloma Varga Weisz, the catalog represents an important opportunity to analyze her work, thanks to scholarly essays by Marianna ..."
"Her works address urgent issues related to the ecological crisis and the environment, the exploitation of resources and sustainability, exploring the stories of colonialism and new forms of material art."
"Museum der ObsessionenGebundenes BuchDer Kurator Harald Szeemann (1933-2005) war eine Schlüsselfigur der Kunstszene des 20. Jahrhunderts. Anarchisch, hellsichtig, traumwandlerisch und Grenzen sprengend leitete er sowohl Institutionen wie die Kunsthalle Bern (1961-1969), wie er auch freie Ausstellungen zusammenstellte und die Rolle des Kurators neu erfand. Szeemann kuratierte mehr als 150 Ausstellungen, darunter die documenta 5 (1972), d ..."
"Ausstellung: Museum of Modern Art, New York, 24.2.-17.5.10; Albertina, Wien, 29.10.10-30.1.11; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 5.3.-29.5.11; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 7.7.-2.10.2011."
"Published on the occasion of the first exhibition in an Italian institution dedicated to her, the book presents paintings, sculptures, objects, architectural elements, drawings and a sound installation that is inspired by the form of the ..."
"Questo volume, curato da Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev e Virginia Bertone, accompagna la mostra Organismi: un'esposizione d'arte, architettura, design, fotografia e cibo che mette in relazione l'Art Nouveau di Émile Gallé e la contemporaneità. Propone una nuova visione dei legami tra le prospettive organicistiche che si affermano a cavallo del Novecento e le visioni biocentriche di oggi. Accanto a superbi vasi, mobili, lettere, scritti di ..."
""Psychic Wounds: On Art & Trauma examines over 60 international artists whose memory of historical trauma has provided them with a unique power to generate works of art."
"What does art know? And how? Twenty artists discuss the epistemology of artistic creationWhat is artistic research? How does art know? How does artistic thinking develop through artistic processes and takes shape in artworks? These questions form the departure point for this new book by artist, academic and curator Lucy Cotter (born 1973). In 20 conversations with leading artists, she maps out an epistemology of artistic creation today, ..."
"Curators and thinkers about contemporary art consider how to engage audiences in creative forms of protest and advocacy.With the global rise of a politics of shock, driven by nationalist and authoritarian regimes, what paths to resistance and sites of sanctuary can cultural institutions offer? In this book, more than twenty of the world's leading curators and thinkers about contemporary art offer powerful case studies from their own wor ..."
"Published a century after the October Revolution and 50 years after Italian painter Renato Guttuso (1911–87) published his article "Avant-garde and Revolution" in the Italian Communist Party's Rinascita magazine, this book presents Guttuso's works since the '30s in conversation with his politics."
"Wael Shawky (born 1971) is one of the most fascinating contemporary Arab artists. He investigates history, its interpretations and the ways in which the past influences the present. This catalog is dedicated to his research on the history of the Crusades, embodied in his environments, films, sculptures and drawings. These works, narrated from an Arab point of view, shed new light on the roots of some of the major cultural and sociopolit ..."
"In a unique collaborative retrospective, the museums Castello di Rivoli and Centre Pompidou have featured the transnational two-part exhibition Nalini Malani: The Rebellion of the Dead, Retrospective 1969-2018 . The catalogue of Part II contains three new articles, the descriptions of each of the artworks, an extensive and richly illustrated exhibition list, bibliography and biography, compiled in collaboration with the archive of the a ..."