"Das unverwechselbare Oeuvre des jung verstorbenen Künstlers Jochen Klein (1967 1997) markiert eine neue Auffassung in der figurativen Malerei der 1990er-Jahre in Europa. Nach dem Malereistudium in München wandte sich Klein als Mitglied der New Yorker Künstlergruppe Group Material zunächst konzeptuellen Projekten zu. Nach seiner Übersiedelung nach London kam er jedoch wieder zur Malerei zurück und arbeitete bis zu seinem frühen Tod an Ge ..."
"This book presents the AutoWerke collection - donated by the BMW Group to the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts. In the period 1998 - 2000, BMW commissioned 28 international photographers to engage with the theme of the car and mobility. A total of 75 photographic and video works were produced, which provide very different views of the 'automobilized' society. The photographers include, Thomas Demand, Rineke Dijkstra, Candida Hofer, Thomas St ..."
"For their latest issue, "Power",Visionaire has teamed up with the renowned cosmetic house Shiseido to create a hardcover book housed in an iridescent injection-molded case. Nature and beauty are the starting points for "Power", an issue combining saturated colors, "natural" elements and "supernatural" holographic papers. Contributions from Visionaire's usual all-star list of artists, photographers, and image-makers include Mariko Mori, ..."
""From early images of socks drying on a radiator to more recent fields of glossy color created in the darkroom, all Tillmans' work asks this question: how to make it new?" -The GuardianThis publication accompanies Fondation Beyeler’s survey on the great photographic innovator Wolfgang Tillmans (born 1968). Tillmans first made a name for himself in the early 1990s, with photographs that captured an entire generation and a youth culture o ..."
"At just over 430 pages, this monumental and beautifully designed new monograph presents the most comprehensive view of the London-based photographer Wolfgang Tillmans' work to date, featuring many photographic works and abstract "paintings" from the past five years that have never been published before. When he is working on an exhibition or a publication, Tillmans displays and combines pictures on long tables in his studio so that the ..."
"For AutoWork, two teams of curators in the United States and Germany invited internationally renowned artists to work with the BMW group's corporate identity--in the widest sense of the term: its employees, products, customers, work processes and image, using both photography and film. The artists were granted absolute artistic freedom and complete autonomy. Included among the project's participants in Germany are Heike Baranowsky, Thom ..."
"The extraordinary public and private life of the world’s most famous monarchIn honor of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee—60 years on the throne—TASCHEN celebrates the extraordinary private and public life of Her Majesty. Born in 1926, married in 1947, crowned as Queen in 1953, for over six decades she has steadfastly and loyally carried out her duty on behalf of her country, never speaking out of turn or putting a foot wrong. The book t ..."
"Published annually since 2006, in collaboration with Fundación Telefónica, La Fabrica's Conversations with Photographers series pairs up leading lights in contemporary photography and the visual arts with international curators and fellow artists. Each interview is printed as an individual pocket-size book, with illustrations and notes, and is housed in a slipcase. For this third volume in the series, Californian photoconceptualist John ..."
"The Frankfurt am Main Städelschule, and its gallery Portikus, form a leading international center for experimental contemporary art. The Städelschule was founded in 1817 by Johann Friedrich Städel for the purpose of introducing students to his prodigous art collection. This publication is authored by contemporary Städelschule professors and visiting lecturers, including Pamela Lee, Niklas Maak, Jan Verwoert and Okwui Enwezor, who discus ..."
"The cultural-historical starting point of Saint Sebastian: Or a Splendid Readiness For Death is found in Gabriele D'Annunzio's Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian: A Mystery in Five Acts, a musical play on which D'Annunzio collaborated with Debussy and in which the role of Saint Sebastian was taken by D'Annunzio's lover, the dancer Ida Rubenstein, whose transvestism in the role brought denunciations from the Church. But that is another story. ..."
"A multi-generational selection of 31 artists was invited to contribute work for this 50th anniversary issue of "Jahresring," the Cologne journal of art criticism. After 49 issues dealing in various aspects of art criticism, the editors decided it was time to let art itself take the limelight. Artists such as Fischli and Weiss, Rosemarie Trockel, Richard Artschwager, Diana Thater, On Kawara, Ellen Gallagher, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Gerhar ..."
"From the start, Wolfgang Tillmans' (born 1968) abstract photographs played a decisive role in his gentle subversion of photographic hierarchies and his seductive emphasis on the materiality of photographic objects in his presentation of them. In the past decade he has pursued this tack, making wholly non-representational photographs that explore processes of exposure. From the delicate veils of color in the "Blushes" and "Freischwimmer" ..."
"Over the course of two very personal conversations, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Wolfgang Tillmans discuss the photographer's work, his changing artistic vision and various thematic pursuits since the 1980s. Tillmans' recent book "Manual" is discussed in detail, as are cultural and social topics like AIDS."
WolfgangTillmans Neue Welt द्वारा WolfgangTillmans Hardcover, 96 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2013 द्वारा Taschen America Llc Special Edition ISBN-13: 978-3-8365-4221-0, ISBN: 3-8365-4221-8
"Over the period of more than two decades, Wolfgang Tillmans has explored the medium of photo-imaging with greater range than any other artist of his generation. From snapshots of his friends to abstract images made in a darkroom without a camera or works made with a photocopier, he has pushed the photographic process to its outer limits in myriad ways. For this project, Tillmans turned away from the self-reflexive exploration of the pho ..."