Antony Gormley, London 2004
192 pp Colour reproductions. ISBN 0954719603
26 x 21 cm English text. Hardover
From January to August 2003, Level 4 of Gateshead’s BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art was the location for the fabrication and exhibition of Domain Field, a major new work by Anthony Gormley. Already well-known in the North East for his celebrated sculpture, the Angel of the North, Gormley developed his links with the local community by inviting 285 residents of Newcastle-Gateshead to be moulded at the gallery where plaster casts of their bodies were used to create a forest of shimmering stainless steel Domain sculptures. This work was shown together with Allotment (another major collaboration with a local community in Malmo, Sweden, in 1996), and Gormley’s massive Expansion works.
Making Space documents the processes of the making and exhibiting of these key works, combining a unique insight into the artist’s practice with the first in-depth analysis of an important facet of his work, the collaborative projects which began with Field in 1990.
The book is generously illustrated and contains essays by Richard Sennett, Darian Leader, Andrew Renton and Anthony Gormley, together with an interview between the artist and Adrian Searle.
Anthony Gormley was born in London in 1950, where he lives and works. His work has been exhibited extensively internationally. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1994 and the South Bank Prize for Visual Art in 1999. Price: £32.00
Hatje Cantz 2003
100 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3775712429
29 x 24.5 cm English/German/Japanese. Hardcover
The installations by the American artist Ann Hamilton, as atmospheric as intellectually complex, often are of grandiose dimensions: tons of work clothes, penny coins or printing letters together with people acting or even animals characterize her process-like, site-specific environments. Viewers are incorporated as if in a play, and taught to use their senses anew. In her most recent work "the picture is still", which is featured in this book, the artist consciously refrained from adding animated elements. In a former torpedo factory at Yokosuka, a symbol-laden place in Japan consecutively used by domestic and American armies for extensive military bases, Ann Hamilton processed enormous amounts of local fuel: charcoal rods made of one-metre-long pieces of branches and tree trunks. They are suspended from the ceiling on wires of different lengths, some of them so low that viewers almost have to stoop when they walk across the hall - oppressed by the heavy shadows of the dense, blackened mass of dead matter above them like by a flock of crows. Hamilton has created a space filled with abysmal sadness - an image that conjures up the darker chapters of Japanese-American history.
Texts by Tomoaki Kitagawa, Bernhart Schwenk, Takao Ueda Price: £35.00
Ikon Gallery 2003
56 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0907594859
22 x 30 cm English text. Softcover
Described as ‘wonderfully unreliable experiments,’ Anya Gallaccio’s work is concerned essentially with the nature of change and the balance struck between growth and decay. Characterised by an engaging light touch and a profound sensibility for the ephemeral, Gallaccio’s practice demonstrates a remarkable ability to combine audience engagement with an intellectual rigour. Transforming the everyday to the extraordinary, her installations make use of a wide range of commonplace materials such as chocolate, ice blocks, salt, flowers, chalk, candles, vegetables and molten lead.
This publication is launched to coincide with Gallaccio’s first ever survey exhibition and includes comprehensive documentation of some of her most celebrated work as well insights into her most recent sculptural projects yet to be seen in the UK. Price: £15.00
Contemporary Arts Museum 2004
80 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0954308549
22 x 28 cm English text. Softcover
In 1995, British artist Matthew Ritchie embarked on an extraordinary undertaking: he set out to tell the story of everything, from the Big Bang onward. His tale was to be told in paintings and drawings through a core group of 39 characters drawn from sources as diverse as mythology, quantum physics, alchemy, gambling, biblical tales, and pulp fiction. With Proposition Player, Ritchie's first major solo museum exhibition and accompanying catalogue, his narrative has reached a "climax, collapse, and crisis" - the story has morphed into a game and Ritchie has created a veritable information casino. Accompanying the paintings and drawings for which the artist is internationally known are works in new media, including a 100-foot three-dimensional drawing, an interactive craps table with digital animation that invites viewers to roll the dice for the future of the universe, and a deck of cards featuring Ritchie's cast of characters. Price: £22.50
White Cube 2004
88 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0954650115
28 x 24 cm English text. Hardcover
Published to accompany her recent exhibition at White Cube Gallery, London. Documents recent paintings and includes numerous stills from her film Los Angeles 2004. Essays, 'Behind the Glass Curtain', by Douglas Coupland and 'Tricks of the Light?', by Martin Herbert. Price: £25.00
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Tate 2004
128 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1854374648
21 x 27 cm English text. Softcover
Over the past decade Douglas Gordon has received recognition as one of the most exciting and challenging British artist working today. His deployment of pre-existing material, mnost spectacularly illustrated in his use of Hitchcock's iconic thriller in his work 24 Hour Pyscho(1993), attracted particular attention. Katrina M. Brown explores the relationship between word and image, remembering and forgetting, good and evil, and love and hate that permeated Gordon's work., Interviews with the artist provide revealing insights into his video, photographic, audio and text-based works. With over 100 colour illustrations. Price: £14.99
Modern Art Oxford 2004
88 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 190135220X
17 x 21 cm English text. Softcover
Fiction, alchemy, geometry and a politicised rereading of 1970s land art are central to TRIPLE BLUFF CANYON, a major new sculptural installation by Mike Nelson at Modern Art Oxford. This fully illustrated publication features an essay by Jeremy Millar and a short story by Brian Aldiss and accompanies the exhibition. Price: £9.95
Bergen Kunsthall, Norway 2004
140 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 8230301972
22 x 26.5 cm English text. Hardcover
This impressive monograph, with a major new essay by Andrea Schlieker, entitled ‘moving mountain’ accompanies Anne Katrine Dolven's Festival Exhibition 2004 at Bergen Konstall and documents her most recent body of work including her 35 mm film installations and paintings. Dolvens unique ability to work across artistic media is clearly evident. The absence of any narrative creates a link between the film and paintings. Being difficult to understand at a glance, Dolvens work demands the viewers' time. Perception of the apparently monochrome films changes markedly as the viewer begins to comprehend small details. The same is true for the large abstract paintings, which gain in visual strength as nuances between the pale colours become apparent.
Anne Katrine Dolven has collected themes from amongst other things north Norwegian nature, more precisely Lofoten, where the artist lives for long periods of the year. The films are unedited and depict human figures, which almost without movement become a part of their magnificent surroundings. Other themes are taken from more closed and intimate contexts where the voyeuristic aspect becomes striking. By paying attention to changes in immaterial elements such as lights and sound, time also becomes important, not only for the viewers perception, but also for the content of much of the work. The sparse use of themes and references gives extra weight to these significant elements. Elements that in spite of their simplicity can both cognitively and thematically move mountains.
Having lived in Berlin and more recently London, Anne Katrine Dolven has over the past years established herself as one of Norway's most sought after contemporary artists. She has had a number of major solo exhibitions with significant international institutions and received awards for her work, one of these being the Fred Thieler-award. Dolven has also been important to the Norwegian arts scene, active both as an artist and politically. Price: £29.95
Testify Books 2004
96 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0972592008
16 x 22.5 cm English text. Softcover
Introduction by Rachel Greene. Filled with over 150 raucous drawings and paintings, Todd James is a dense catalogue of recent work from the internationally known artist and designer. James's commercial work over the last fifteen years has helped shape the aesthetic of contemporary youth culture, and his logos for clients like The Source, Eminem, Mobb Deep, the Beastie Boys and Redman remain some of Hip-Hop's most enduring icons.
Published in conjunction with The International 2002, Liverpool Biennial. Price: £19.99
Hatje Cantz 2004
240 pages Clour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 377571278X
17.5 24.5 cm English/German text. Hardcover
An imaginatively designed book devoted to the work of American artist Christine Hill, featuring her "Volksboutique", a project that attracted great attention at documenta X in 1997.
The aim of this book is to properly lend focus and a visual base to the series of Volksboutique projects Christine Hill has made over the past 10 years, including Pilot, Products, Vendible, Tourguide, The Reference Library and the Handbag. She has come to refer to these as "Organizational Ventures", a term which gives shape to the real art-making tools in use: coordination, organization, presentation.
The book displays the cumulative nature of Hill's projects and collects a number of texts and reference images that are vital to the work. The structure of the book traces Christine Hill's offices in Binghamton, Baltimore, Berlin and New York. The design reflects properties that have been present in many Volksboutique projects. The book serves as an archive of projects, and a visual hope chest that contains them. Price: £19.95
Whitney Museum of American Art 2004
272 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0874271398
30 x 30 cm English text. Hardcover
The Whitney Museum of American Art's 2004 Biennial Exhibition brings together 108 artists and collaborative teams from three generations who reflect a number of overlapping tendencies--diverse approaches to process, narrative, materiality, abstraction, conceptual strategies, technology, and history. The catalogue includes thought-provoking essays by the Whitney curators who organized the exhibition--Chrissie Iles, Shamim M. Momin, and Debra Singer--as well as related texts by writers as diverse as Jorge Luis Borges and Susan Buck-Morss, entries on each of the artists represented, and a comprehensive list of works in the Biennial. In addition, each artist has contributed an original project to the catalogue, in formats ranging from posters and postcards to zines and bumper stickers, packaged in an enclosed box. Price: £30.00
