Art Feb 2014 II

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Laura Vinci APC & Cosac Naify 2013 ISBN 9788540502734 Acqn 22135 Hb 26x21cm 228pp 200col ills 36.95 Brazilian artist Laura Vinci (born 1962) has created public installations throughout the world. Designed as a diary of the artists projects, thoughts, drawings and writing, this publication celebrates Vincis works, which often deploy ephemeral materials. Text by Paulo Sergio Duarte, Lorenzo Mammi, Luisa Duarte, Rodrigo Naves, Tasa Palhares, Carlos Alberto Tassinari, David Barro, Lorenzo Fusi, Interview by Luisa Duarte, Guilherme Wisnik.
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9 Artists Walker Art Center 2013 ISBN 9781935963066 Acqn 22775 Pb 20x26cm 210pp 80ills 50col 33 9 Artists is an international, multigenerational group exhibition that considers the mutable and mutating role of the artist in contemporary culture. Bringing together the expansive practices of some of the most provocative and engaged artists working today--Yael Bartana, Liam Gillick, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Renzo Martens, Bjarne Melgaard, Nstio Mosquito, Hito Steyerl and Danh Vo--the show examines ways that they negotiate the complicities and contradictions of living in an ever more complex and networked world. Rarely considered together, they each use their own backgrounds or identities as material, frequently in antagonistic or subversive ways. For this catalogue, each artist has contributed a 16-page artist's book exploring some aspect of their practice, often in collaboration with other artists, writers, or designers including Karl Holmqvist, Phng Vo, Galit Eilat, Vic Pereir, An Art Service, Federica Bueti and T.J. Demos. Some contributions are purely visual; others entirely textual, ranging from new essays to ghostwritten letters, cease and desist orders, and cinematic diaries. An accompanying compendium of works provides a visual journey through past projects and ephemera, setting up an associative conversation between the artists' works. Additionally, exhibition curator Bartholomew Ryan's essay weaves together their various approaches, placing them in the context of broader contemporary art practice and the complex world we inhabit. As each artist has developed strong networks of collaborators, the volume is anticipated as a means to promote and create dialogue between the participants and their respective communities.
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Suspended Histories Museum van Loon 2013 ISBN 9789080330504 Acqn 23146 Pb 16x24cm 94pp 47ills 41col 21 Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Museum Van Loon in Amsterdam, this catalogue reflects the curatorial thinking and perspectives of an art historian constantly questioning the role of art in relation to history. In it a multiplicity of connections between collections of colonial history with responses by contemporary artists are presented, engaging and reactivating these so-called suspended histories from a post-colonial standpoint. Rife with artworks, thoughtful essays and shots of the exhibit in the gorgeous interiors of the Van Loon house, the book includes work by eleven participating artists, among them, Fiona Tan, Simryn Gill, Newell Harry and Tiong Ang.
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Hell'o Monsters - Deaf Dumb And Blind Art Design Publishing 2013 ISBN 9789462282872 Acqn 23147 Hb 16x22cm 136pp 125ills 100col 26.50 The HellO Monsters collective emerged in the late 1990s and has since developed a highly idiosyncratic graphic vocabulary that is both complex and ambiguous. Jerme Meynen, Franois Dieltiens and Antoine Detaille draw upon the iconography of fairy tales, fables and other mediaeval allegories, mythologies, and esotericism and surrealism in creating brief narrative sequences populated by a fantastic, often grotesque bestiary of animals, skeletons, imps and odd, human-like creatures. The dichotomy and paradox prevalent in their work plays with themes like death, hope, frivolity and failure, at once humorous and mocking. With an introduction by Christophe Veys.
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Science Of The Secondary 1 Apple Atelier Hoko 2013 no ISBN Acqn 23191 Pb 18x25cm 44pp 54col ills 15.75 With 'Apple' as the subject of the first publication from the research programme 'Science of the Secondary', Atelier HOKO presents an inquiry into our behaviours and experiences observed through our interaction with the humble fruit. From the very moment we set our eyes on the apples that are displayed in the fruit stall to the strangely familiar memory of an apple within us, this book offers an alternative insight into things that are not yet discovered.
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Huang Yong Ping - Amoy / Xiamen Kamel Mennour 2013 ISBN 9782906461864 Acqn 23272 Hb 22x27cm 208pp 120ills 100col 45 One of the most well-known and controversial Chinese avant-garde artists today, Huang Yong Ping, founder of the Xiamen Dada group, incorporates elements of both Chinese and Western philosophies in his oeuvre. This monograph is based on a specific work conceived for his exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon, inspired by statues from the province of Fujian of a pantheon of gods. The work is both autobiographical and self-fictional in its permissive take on cultural readings and their floating meanings, as well as embodying an association of the past and present. With texts by Thierry Raspail, Deirdre Emmons, Donatien Grau and Doryun Chong.
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Isolde Venrooy - Discovery Of The Well-known The Eriskay Connection 2013 ISBN 9789081838474 Acqn 23276 Pb 23x30cm 44pp 41col ills 26.50 The publication 'Discovery of the Well-known' includes paintings by Isolde Venrooy from the period 2011-2013. In the work of Venrooy humans share the pure element of time with others. Bathers who share the seawater, or skiers in the shining white of snow, are connected by a common current time. Venrooy establishes this connection in a very concrete, traditional way. By recoating paper cuttings with monochromatic color figures are isolated and merged into a new moment of time. The book guides the reader through several enlargements of the extraordinary works in order to experience details as well as the whole.
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Walter Swennen - So Far So Good Wiels 2013 ISBN 9782930667065 Acqn 23279 Pb 24x28cm 286pp 740ills 78col 45 This dense and comprehensive catalogue for a retrospective exhibition of the work of Walter Swennen at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre offers a detailed look at the Belgian artists oeuvre, delving into its humorous interaction between pictorial practice and poetical communication. With sources of inspiration ranging from comic strips and childrens drawings to ads and world literature, Swennen shows a preference for subtle forms of rebellion, deviation and questioning authorship and originality. Besides documentation of numerous works, the book includes a selection of the artists published texts, plus essays by Caroline Dumalin and Quinn Latimer, among others.
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Milton Machado - History Of The Future APC & Cosac Naify 2013 ISBN 9788540502741 Acqn 22144 Hb 21x30cm 120pp 75ills 35col 21.95 History of the Future is the first publication on one of Brazils foremost contemporary conceptual artists, Milton Machado (born 1947). For more than 30 years, Machado has been designing and constructing a utopian world, titled History of the Future, which he illustrates in sketches, drawings, writings, sculptures and installations. Edited by Milton Machado. Text by Milton Machado, Guilherme Bueno, Tania Rivera.
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First Among Equals ICA Philadelphia 2013 ISBN 9780884541264 Acqn 22152 Pb 17x24cm 144pp 50col ills 14.95 Focusing on Los Angeles and Philadelphia, First Among Equals considers the various modes that contemporary artists have developed to work with each other and reach across generations through negotiation and dialogue. Among the artists included are Kathryn Andrews, Bodega, Alex Da Corte, Extra Extra, Machete Group, Marginal Utility, P&Co., Mateo Tannatt and Wu Tsang.
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Conjunctions 61 - A Menagerie Bard College Of Art 2013 ISBN 9780941964777 Acqn 22572 Pb 15x23cm 380pp 11 Conjunctions: 61, A Menagerie is a collection of previously unpublished essays, fiction and poetry that seek to imagine the world of our fellow beings--animals. From Adam naming the animals in Genesis to Ovids Metamorphoses and Melvilles Moby-Dick, writers, philosophers and scientists have long been fascinated by our interplay with the rest of the animal kingdom. Our mythologies and pantheons are populated with snakes, monkeys, cats, jackals and whales. Our species relationship with other animals is complex, difficult and wildly contradictory--they are friends, enemies, tools, food. Descartes decided they didnt have souls; Linnaeus cataloged them; Darwin connected us to them. A Menagerie embraces the world of beasts, from parasite tongues to octopi art, from elephants singing in harmony with trucks on the highway to psychic pets and pet psychics. Contributors include Temple Grandin, Joyce Carol Oates, T. Geronimo Johnson, Luis Alberto Urrea, Jonathan Ames, Susan Daitch and others.
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Lari Pittman - A Decorated Chronology Contemporary Art Museum St Louis 2013 ISBN 9780988997004 Acqn 22607 Pb 22x28cm 104pp 51col ills 18.50 A Decorated Chronology accompanies the first American museum exhibition of Los Angeles based artist Lari Pittman in more than 15 years. It comprises a range of recent work and a selection of earlier paintings. Over the past three decades, Pittman has developed a body of work that is internationally celebrated for its exuberant use of color and painstakingly rendered detail to address such contentious subjects as sexuality, desire and violence. His multilayered depictions of images and signs--ranging from human figures and body parts to animals, plants, furniture, text and even credit cards--meditate on the overwhelming richness and sadness of everyday life. Embracing the critical potential of figurative painting, Pittman provides incisive commentary on the mediums ability to intertwine the personal with the political.
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Art Engaging Gangs AC Books 2013 ISBN 9780988471504 Acqn 23039 Pb 22x22cm 84pp 24ills 18col 14.95 The amateurish catalogue for a group exhibition of nine artists who engage with gangs in different ways through their work. Poverty, unemployment, lack of opportunity and other social tribulations all play a role in documenting the lives of gang members and their victims, while violence and death remain prevalent aspects of expression. This dangerous reality is reflected in the distinctive approaches the artists have taken in an effort to capture a collective articulation of individual pain and hope. An essay by curator Holly Crawford and texts by participating artists Paula Roush, Joseph Rodriguez, Erik Bergrin, Nadn Ospina and others illuminate the issues raised.
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Peter Greenaway - The Dance Of Death Christoph Merian Verlag 2013 ISBN 9783856166342 Acqn 23109 Pb 23x29cm 92pp 110ills 50col 28.95 This book presents British filmmaker Peter Greenaways 21st-century reinterpretation of the Totentanz, a 15th-century mural in Basel which reminded citizens that no matter ones station in life, whether rich or poor, powerful or common, everyone must eventually perish. Greenaway conceived a multi-media installation at the original site of the Dance of Death composed of funerary monuments that act as displays for films depicting various ways to meet death. The interactive projections of more than 40 representations are inspired by the original tableau, reconceived in film and video drama and animations. With a text by Greenaway and archival drawings and documents.
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Peter Greenaway - The OK Doll Dis Voir 2014 ISBN 9782914563703 Acqn 23292 Pb 22x19cm 72pp 16.95 The Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka fell in violent carnal love with Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahlers widow. They had a temptuous affair and Alma aborted Oskars child and left him. Distraught and disorientated, wishing for oblivion, Oskar signed up as a soldier and was wounded in chest and head in the trenches of the First World War. He could not forget or forgive Alma and he had her dressmaker make him a life-sized model of her, complete with the full anatomy for making love. He lived with this model for three years, taking it to the opera, to church, to the beach, to restaurants and country picnics and obsessively painting it in his studio. The gap between believing and not believing in the dolls existence as a human being was thin and subject to violent mood swings. Oskar,loved and abused the Alma Mahler substitute to distraction. In an attempt to pull him from his destructive obsession, the dressmaker and Oskars friends, humoured him, making a model of Oskar himself, such that the model of Alma and the model of Oskar contrived to make a child whose still-born birth shocked Oskar back into reality as the streets of Austria were beginning to fill with Nazis.
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Peter Greenaway - Eisenstein In Guanajuato Dis Voir 2014 ISBN 9782914563710 Acqn 23293 Pb 22x19cm 84pp 16.95 Eisenstein, the great and innovative Russian film director went to Mexico in 1930 to make a film about pre-Columbian peoples. Whilst in Mexico this super-intellectual polymath, product of a powerful political turmoil, came face to face with sex and death, lifes two non-negotiables, and subject of mans greatest fascinations. Aged 33, he was obsessed by a museum of corpses, and a child, victim of a mud-slide, died in his arms. And he fell in consummated carnal love with a man. Here is an account of ten days that shook Eisenstein. He returned to Russia a changed man and a changed film-maker.
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Peter Greenaway - The Food Of love Dis Voir 2014 ISBN 9782914563697 Acqn 23294 Pb 22x19cm 64pp 16.95 What happened to the boy Tadzio on the Venetian Lido beach in Thomas Manns and Luchino Viscontis Death in Venice? If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. Enough; no more: 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before. This could be the key to Tadzios possible story some 40 years later, for Tadzio, or someone very much like him, cannot relinquish the memory of a piece of music and all it meant for him. He becomes a violent blackmailer preying on sexual indiscretions, becoming wealthy enough to employ his own quartet of musicians to play him Vivaldi bassoon concertos on demand in prison, in the courtroom, in the streets, in restaurants, swimming pools, in his bedroom when he is making love to his mistress. He lives a lie as a macho functioning heterosexual because of his boyhood seduction by a Venetian bassoon player who played Vivaldi to accompany the thrilling destructive experience he obsessively and hopelessly attempts to recover. Recovery is an impossibility on every level. His attempts to relive the experience destroys him.
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The Show Is Over Gagosian Gallery (NY) 2013 ISBN 9781935263890 Acqn 23162 Pb 29x26cm 168pp 75ills 55col 81.50 The show is over. Or is it? This exhibition is about abstraction and the end of painting, often proposed but never concluded. Christopher Wools statement in paintings, drawings and billboards, taken from Vasily Rozanovs nineteenth century definition of nihilism, contains sufficient irony to suggest that painting itself, the spectacle that surrounds it, and the ultimate questions it poses about life and death, are never quite over. The negation of painting emerged in Europe after WWII in Francis Picabias last paintings, Lucio Fontanas punctured and slashed Concetto spaziale paintings, Yves Kleins Fire-Color works, and Piero Manzonis quest for neutral materiality in the Achromes. When first exhibited in 1953, Robert Rauschenbergs White Paintingsmonochromatic panel paintingswere unprecedented in their deceptive blankness. These works anticipated diverse interpretations of the neutral picture plane. Gerhard Richters paintings of the 1970s in shades of grey project a removed, indifferent power. Seeking new ways to negate or efface the picture plane, artists such as Douglas Gordon, Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Adam McEwen, Albert Oehlen, Richard Prince, and Rudolf Stingel represent sustained challenges to the limits of painting, both real and imagined. Fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Malcolm Bull. Artists include Dan Colen, Willem de Kooning, Lucio Fontana, Douglas Gordon, Kim Gordon, Mike Kelley, Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, Albert Oehlen, Steven Parrino, Francis Picabia, Sigmar Polke, Richard Prince, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Christopher Wool, Richard Wright and many more.
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Tadashi Kawamata - 11/09/2001-11/03/2011 Editions Jannink 2013 ISBN 9782916067902 Acqn 23278 Pb 13x21cm 60pp 30ills 16col 13.50 Visual artist Tadashi Kawamata expresses his fascination with catastrophes in this collection of images, published as a slim booklet. In juxtaposing photographs of the aftermaths of the events of 11 September 2001 in New York with those in Japan following 11 March 2011, interspersed with images of auto accidents, train derailments and aeroplane crashes, he gives visual form to the very human sense of tragic emotion. Acknowledging that the dates are coincidental, he nevertheless pairs these historic and terrible occurrences in an overlapping narrative of destruction almost beyond our comprehension. In this respect, Kawamatas visual collage serves a meditative purpose.
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Richard Hawkins - Fragile Flowers Les Presses Du Reel 2013 ISBN 9782840666622 Acqn 23283 Pb 12x18cm 126pp 13.50 Since the 1990s, Richard Hawkins has evolved a collage practice inherited from Brion Gysins cut-up technique, the legacy of which aggressively mined the collapsed myths of American counter-culture. Within his body of work, whether painting, sculpture, assemblage, fiction or poems, collage offers a space for doublings and expansions, a window to the transient, unrealisable, ephemeral and unstable the fantastical space of classic and contemporary mythologies. The eight short stories comprising this first book of Hawkins writings are haunted by a voyeuristic, desiring hunter, its narratives of homosexual indulgence and vulgar pleasure at once delightful and decadent.
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Euan Uglow Drawings Marlborough Fine Art 2014 ISBN 9781909707030 Acqn 23302 Pb 20x25cm 28pp 45ills 12.50 As more time elapses since Euan Uglows untimely death in 2000, his position as a radical and inventive painter is increasingly widely recognized. Instead of being seen as a mere follower of a reactionary realistic tendency in mid 20th century British painting, his originality has begun to reassert itself and the universality of his work understood. .... And at the heart of Uglows artistic endeavour lies drawing. His drawings are compilations of marks, of dots and dashes: a system which sometimes approaches Morse code in its decisive simplifications, and which at others throws off all constraints and embraces a lyricism both unexpected and rewarding. Precisely measured marks can sit side by side with wristy scribble. Some drawings start with an idea, others are a process of uncovering. Uglow drew to discover the details, weight and shape of a body or object. Many, like the sheet of five parts of figures, are exploratory studies, intended to see what a form is doing. He would also want to investigate, from time to time, the look of a body from another angle than the chosen pose. From the introduction by Andrew Lambirth.
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Peter Wachtler - Come On Sternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783956790355 Acqn 23421 Pb 11x18cm 128pp 9.95 Passivity and contemplation characterize the narrators of Peter Wa chtlers stories. Some speak from the vantage point of death, musing about their lives, recalling formative experiences and decisive moments. Those still alive seem paralyzedfunctioning or malfunctioning within their world, but unable to act upon it. At a moment when narrating experiences seems more important than having them, and when such narrating takes on increasingly standardized forms, Wchtlers writing foregrounds different narrative techniques and traditions as means of rationalizing ones place in the world, of grappling with and giving meaning to ones existence. Unlike the various fatalist and voluntarist doctrines which these stories mime, the social totality here creeps into the picture. Fate turns into slapstick and only as such conveys the horror of life in an administered world. Hollowed-out phrases from the repertoire of communication agencies and shallow love songs are made to speak beautifully of a world that is notand critical theory proves as potent a means for territorial fights as fists or a kryptonite bicycle lock. Come On compiles ten texts by Peter Wchtler written between 2011 and 2013.

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