art december 2012 iv
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ARTCy Twombly – Photographs Gagosian Gallery (NY) 2012 ISBN 9781935263678 Acqn 21843 Pb 19x25cm 192pp 133col ills £65 Cy Twombly (1928–2011) emerged as a prominent figure among a group of artists working in New York that included Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. In 1968, the Milwaukee Art Center mounted his first retrospective. This was followed by major retrospectives at the Kunsthaus Zürich (1987) travelling to Madrid, London and Paris; the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1994) (travellTRANSCRIPT
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Cy Twombly – Photographs Gagosian Gallery (NY) 2012 ISBN 9781935263678 Acqn 21843 Pb 19x25cm 192pp 133col ills £65 Cy Twombly (1928–2011) emerged as a prominent figure among a group of artists working in New York that included Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. In 1968, the Milwaukee Art Center mounted his first retrospective. This was followed by major retrospectives at the Kunsthaus Zürich (1987) travelling to Madrid, London and Paris; the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1994) (travelling to Houston, Los Angeles, and Berlin) and the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich (2006). In 1995, the Cy Twombly Gallery opened at The Menil Collection, Houston, exhibiting works made by the artist since 1954. The European retrospective "Cy Twombly: Cycles and Seasons" opened at the Tate Modern, London in June 2008, with subsequent versions at the Guggenheim Bilbao and the Museum of Modern Art in Rome in 2009. Recent exhibitions include "Cy Twombly: The Natural World, Selected Works 2000-2007," The Art Institute of Chicago (2009) and "Sensations of the Moment," the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, (2009). In 2010, Twombly’s permanent site-specific painting, Ceiling was unveiled in the Salle des Bronzes at the Musée du Louvre. At the same time he was made Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur by the French government. With a text by Edmund de Waal.
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Walter De Maria – Sculptures Gagosian Gallery (NY) 2012 ISBN 9781935263654 Acqn 21878 Hb 37x28cm 64pp 45ills 22col £65 Walter De Maria was born in California and lives and works in New York. He has exhibited his work throughout the world, most recently at the Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima, Japan (2000, 2004); Fondazione Prada, Milan (1999); and the Kunsthaus Zürich (1992, 1999). One Sun/34 Moons (2002), conceived by the artist in collaboration with architect Steven Holl, will open in June of 2007 at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. Several of the artist's sculptural installations remain on continuous view: The New York Earth Room (1977) at 141 Wooster Street, New York; The Broken Kilometer at 393 West Broadway, New York; The Lightning Field (1977) in New Mexico (by appointment through the Dia Art Foundation); The Vertical Earth Kilometer (1977) in the Friedrichsplatz in Kassel, Germany.
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Alex Katz Timothy Taylor Gallery 2012 ISBN 9780948835506 Acqn 21883 Hb 21x27cm 44pp 13col ills £12.50 Exhibition catalogue of Alex Katz’s fifth solo show at the Timothy Taylor Gallery. The exhibition included a new series of portraits and still lifes. Katz, now in his 85th year, is one of the most significant artists of his generation with a far-reaching influence over many of today’s most successful contemporary artists. Katz’s distinctive minimal aesthetic, developed in New York in the 1950s before the emergence of Pop Art and as a reaction to the dominance of Abstract Expressionism, has been refined to a point of poetic harmony. His economy of line and nuanced use of colour speak of a confidence and clarity of vision established over his rich and pioneering career. These portraits of family and friends, and still lifes of flowers purchased from street vendors near his New York studio, are characteristic of Katz’s apodictic mastery of his medium.
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Frank Auerbach - Next Door Marlborough Fine Art 2012 ISBN 9781904373025 Acqn 21844 Pb 24x30cm 40pp 47ills 44col £12.50 Frank Auerbach is an internationally acclaimed painter of great integrity, his work is dedicated to painting the single model and his north London surroundings in Camden Town. His painting of the 1950's and 1960's is characterised by heavy impasto and earth colours, giving way more recently to vivid colours to depict model and place. The power and creative tension in his drawings is equally apparent in his rare, but carefully considered etchings. This new publication is a catalogue from Auerbach’s 2012 exhibition at Marlborough Fine Art, Albemarle Street, London and includes graphite drawings, oil pastels, some recent oil paintings and a letter to Auerbach from John Wonnacott.
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Francis Upritchard, Alfred Kubin - A Hand Of Cards, The Other Side Nottingham Contemporary 2012 ISBN 9781907421044 Acqn 21885 Hb 17x26cm 96pp 63col ills £18 Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibitions: Francis Upritchard - A Hand of Cards & Alfred Kubin - The Other Side. Edited by Alex Farquharson. Text by Ali Smith Francis Upritchard’s psychedelically coloured human figures “live” on islands of ornate furniture. There is a festival feeling to their gatherings, emphasised by Upritchard’s acid-bright colours, hand-woven blankets and tie-dyed silks. Upritchard has said “all the things that hippies hoped would happen, or felt might happen, didn’t.” In one sense her exhibition is about the failure of the 1960s and 70s counter-culture that is still celebrated at festivals – and its gaudy, individualistic “alternative” aftermath. Haunting drawings of death, trauma and fantastical creatures inhabiting imaginary worlds sprung from Alfred Kubin’s pen at the beginning of the 20th century. His work, executed in a delicate, atmospheric ink wash technique, anticipated some of the horrors of the First World War, and the following decades, at a time when Europe’s empires were toppling. His exquisite, yet nightmarish black and white drawings came from his own imagination, or from illustrating works by writers like Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Edgar Allan Poe. Born in Austria, Kubin (1877–1959) is considered an important representative of the Symbolist and Expressionist movement. Nottingham Contemporary presents the first major exhibition of his work in the UK.
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Voebe de Gruyter - From Action Of MatchmakingPhotons To Zen Buddhists' Bad Breath ROMA Publications 2012 ISBN 9789077459874 Acqn 21895 Pb 24x34cm 216pp 240ills 200col £37 Voebe de Gruyter is an artist who makes propositions about unexpected scientific phenomena and other patterns which reveal themselves in everyday situations. Her work abounds with elementary particles: "points of concentration, information particles, small units which contain multitudes," the artist once explained. For this publication De Gruyter went through her complete inventory and studio archives. With texts by Maria Barnas and Roel Arkesteijn, plus explanatory notes by the artist herself for almost all the works.
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The State Of Newtopia - Human Rights Ludion 2012 ISBN 9789461300751 Acqn 21897 Hb 15x22cm 256pp 125ills 75col £29.50 At the instigation of curators Katerina Gregos and Elena Sorokina, the question of human rights is not only examined from a philosophical and ethical point of view, but is also linked to the work of 70 international contemporary artists whose work will be shown in nine different locations in Mechelen in autumn 2012. In this catalogue, selected works constitute a corpus that clearly shows to what extent this question is also a recurrent theme within the field of art. This ambitious project, however, aims to be more than just an exhibition catalogue. It charts the current situation of human rights with essays, philosophical reflections, contributions from a number of international human rights activists, historical reconstructions and new insights.
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Theatre Of Thought Critique & Humanism 2012 ISBN 9789545871559 Acqn 21905 Pb 14x21cm 160pp 30ills 10col £15.75 The first publication of the Critique & Humanism collection ‘One Day I Discovered to my Own Great Astonishment’, dedicated to the relation between theoretical thinking and performing arts. ‘Theatre of Thought’ measures the possibility of a theatre based on languages in states of trans, from which emerges its own paradox of representation and the opening to a language-in-between. Absence of the word, transcriptions, alternations of the relationships of sources suggest the possibility of a performance in the form of a book, or vice versa. Among the pages are found numerous hieroglyphs, abstract shape- and colour-based written languages, plus explanatory texts.
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Kerb 19 - Paradigms Of Nature RMIT University Press 2012 ISBN 9781877096433 Acqn 21912 Pb 21x30cm 124pp 90ills 60col £21.95 This instalment of the journal of landscape architecture considers the shifting paradigms found in the current “post-evolutionary world of extreme technological escalation.” In order to foster new bio-cultural relationships, strategies available to the practice of landscape architecture are presented in order to understand, embrace and challenge the opposition that has persisted between human culture and the natural world. Detailed project overviews are presented along with conversations with several of the leading conceptual practitioners of the moment, among them Teresa Moller, Daan Roosegaarde, Magnus Larsson, David Gissen and Liam Young.
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Louisa Bufardeci & Zon Ito Museum Of Contemporary Art Sydney 2012 ISBN 9781921034374 Acqn 21913 Pb 22x26cm 108pp 140ills 120col £34.95 This exhibition represents the latest in the Museum’s “International pairing” series in which an Australian artist (Bufardeci, Melbourne 1969) is invited to nominate an international peer (Ito, Osaka 1971) to exhibit alongside. Their works engage audiences through direct visual and physical interaction. Bufardeci’s corridor and floor pieces are intended to be walked through and upon, while Ito redesigns the gallery architecture with colour, texture, mirrored glass and quirkily-distorted video projections that are encountered through constructed doorways.
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Kumi Macheda Seigensha Art Publishing 2012 ISBN 9784861523359 Acqn 21919 Hb 20x26cm 128pp 112col ills £72.50 As a student at the Tama Univesity of Arts, Kumi Machida majored in Japanese-style painting. She still employs its technique and material, such as sumi ink and linen paper, yet in an entirely new and unique manner. Characteristics of her work include clear-lined draughtsmanship, subtle surrealism in the human form, and mineral pigments that lend the images a minimal sense of colour and warm nuances. Accompanied by an introduction by David Elliott and the essay ‘Kumi Machida’s Paintings: Broken Symmetry, Evolving Intercourse’, by Yuri Mitsuda, this book beautifully presents a large selection of her work from the late 1990s through the present.
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Vic Muniz CAC Malaga 2012 ISBN 9788493937669 Acqn 21925 Hb 25x31cm 286pp 122ills 100col £56 The catalogue for a photography exhibition presented by the Contemporary Art Centre in Malaga featuring over 100 works of art by Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, this weighty volume documents the spectrum of materials the artist employs to create works that are both reproductions of famous artworks and stand-alone masterpieces. “Optical illusions combine with reality in order to play surprising visual tricks. Sugar, jam, chocolate, rubbish, dust, earth, thread and wire are just some of the materials used…” With texts by Antonio Soler and Fernando Francés, plus an extensive interview with Muniz by Juan Uslé about the nature of his work.
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Per Barclay – Fludio CAC Malaga 2012 ISBN 9788493937645 Acqn 21929 Pb 22x25pp 138pp 64ills 63col £33.75 Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Contemporary Art Centre of Málaga in 2012, ‘Fluido’ offers a diverse overview of work by Norwegian artist Per Barclay, who is known for working with wood, painting and photography, as well as for his later use of steel and glass as structural elements and liquids as pictorial elements. The exhibition, like this catalogue, focuses on an installation specially conceived for the Centre’s main gallery in the form of a tank filled with black oil that reflects the building’s structure like a vast mirror. Here each stage of the work is explored, from conception to construction and critical analysis.
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Kimsooja - Works & Process DVD a.p.r.e.s 2012 no ISBN Acqn 21933 DVD 14x19cm £28 Various documentary approaches of Kimsooja's work (8 films). This DVD is dedicated to the work of the Korean artist Kimsooja. This edition presents all the films in an English version. The DVD proposes all in all more than 2 hours of program compound of 8 documentary movies, following the production process of various installations all over the world (Hawaii, New York, Paris, Madrid). A retrospective film based on an interview with the artist evokes her whole career. “Works and Process” is a monographic collection of DVDs dedicated to contemporary artists directed by Gilles Coudert. Every “monograph” uses an encyclopaedic principle and suggests discovering and understanding the approach of a creator through various documentary approaches, films and unknow archives of the artist. Born 1957 in Taegu (Korea), Kimsooja, who lives and works in New York, is a world-renowned artist. Her work includes installation, performance, video and photography.
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Ruth Buchanan - The Weather, A Building Sternberg Press 2012 ISBN 9783943365368 Acqn 21942 Pb 15x20cm 80pp 11ills 1col £14.95 Libraries are generally perceived as storehouses, spaces of stable accumulation and containment. While the architecture may attempt to operate in this stable tone, the material contained within them is often far wilder. Histories, biographies, loose thoughts, detailed notations, bodies, and objects are all temporarily suspended, cataloged, and organized, creating relationships where perhaps previously there was none. An example of where the tension between what is contained in libraries and how it is contained emerges in a highly palpable way in the trajectory of the Staatsbibliothek Berlin. This new artist book by Ruth Buchanan charts three narratives associated with the life of this particular library. The anecdotes become both concrete examples and metaphors through which to interrogate the production, situating, and sharing of meaning.