Centre Pompidou 2002
200pp Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 2844261388
17 x 24 cm Englsih text. Softcover
Over the past few years, a number of museum exhibitions have addressed the "renewal" of painting, even going so far as to claim its "renaissance". As this term implies, painting's "death" has often been proclaimed, or even, definitively confirmed. There is either a healthy dose of hypocrisy or deliberate blindness in the assumption that pictorial art practices have been rejected by some of the century's most pertinent artists.
"Dear Painter, paint me..." is not limited to a simple affirmation of the importance of pictorial art practice today. Through a rigorous selection of artists, this exhibition examines painters that have chosen to represent the human figure through the lens of the mass media images.
Including works by: kai Altoff, Carole Benzaken, Glenn Brown, Bernard Buffet, Brian Calvin, Peter Doig, Sophie von Hellermann, Alex Katz, Kurt Kauper, Martin Kippenberger, Enoc Perez, Bruno Perramant, Elizabeth Peyton, Francis Picabia, Sigmar Polke, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans.
With texts by Carole Boulbes, Massimiliano Gioni, Parisa Kind, Gabriele Makert, Jemima Montagu, Alexander Roob, Reiner Speck, Martina Weinhart, and the editors Price: £27.00
British Council 2003
74 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0863555071
16.5 x 24.5 cm English text. Softcover
Electric Earth is an exhibition of video-based works examining themes of alternative ways of living and systems of belief. The artist appears as a contemporary flaneur who mines pre-determined social structures, and acting as a facilitator he or she seeks to appropriate and subvert the basis of power within their chosen subject matter throgh simple interventions. In this way the artists in Electric Earth look to expand our understanding of social systems and codes, re-positioning the viewer’s expectations. Includes artists biographies, bibliography and curators in conversation.
Artists: Mark Leckey, Carey Young, Mark Titchner, Luke Fowler, Torsten Lauschmann, Nick Relph and Oliver Payne, Wolfgang Tillmans, Stephen Sutcliffe, Rob Kennedy, Paul Rooney, Hilary Lloyd, Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane, Adam Chodzko, Volker Eichelmann and Roland Rust, Szuper Gallery.
Essays by Mark Beasley and Colin Ledwith. Price: £9.95
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Steidl Verlag 2002
496 pages 2 Vols Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 388243869X
22 x 28 cm English text. Hardcover Slip Case
Spanning nearly ten years of the most exciting developments in contemporary British and international art, this lavishly illustrated publication brings together all seventy five exhibitions presented at White Cube during its nine year residency in 44 Duke Street, St. James's. Comprising two volumes, every exhibition is illustrated and includes reproductions of the installations, individual works presented by the artists, announcement cards created by the artists and entries on each exhibition. An essay by the artist and writer Liam Gillick serves as a response to this important exhibition programme which includes many of the most challenging artists worldwide: Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Lucian Freud, Katharina Fritsch, Nan Goldin, Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Ellsworth Kelly, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sam Taylor-Wood, Doris Salcedo, Luc Tuymans and Jeff Wall. Jay Jopling opened the original White Cube, on the first floor of 44 Duke Street, St James's, in London's West End, in May 1993. Its exhibition policy was to provide a one-off showcase for individual British and international artists. The gallery's exhibition space, designed by the acclaimed minimalist architect Claudio Silvestrin, was a single room; a completely plain cube with white walls and no visible lights. It provided an intimate, focused environment in which artists were invited to present a single important work of art or a coherent body of work. Price: £55.00
Arts and Humanities Research Board 2002
94 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0948327162
17.5 x 24 cm English text. Softcover
The book takes its point of departure from issues around changing notions of site specific practices, context art, Situational aesthetics, and uses of non-gallery spaces, explored in the exhibition, Subway Special, staged in the Aldwych tube station in November 2000. The book contains extensive colour photographic documentation of works by William Furlong, Susan Stockwell, David Goldenberg, Gudrun Bielz, Frank Brown, Tim Lewis, Freddy Contreras amongst others. It also includes an interview by William Furlong and new commissioned texts by James Baron, Edgar Schmitz, David Goldenberg and the curators. Price: £10.00
Hatje Cantz 2002
248 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3775712089
16.8 x 24 cm English/German text. Hardcover
The yearly Ars Electronica Festival is conceived as a joint creative platform for artists and scientists from various disciplines in the field of digital media design. The Prix Ars Electronica awarded at the festival was installed by the ORF regional broadcasting station Upper Austria in 1987; since then, more than 10,000 artists from over 60 countries have participated in the contest. The Prix Ars Electronica represents an internationally noted state-of-the-art trend barometer in media art, impressively illustrating both the artistic and cultural as well as the social implications of the digital media. The list of winners serves as a Who's Who of Cyber Art: Peter Gabriel, John Lasseter, Linus Torvalds and many other renowned artists have been among the recipients of the coveted trophy, the "Golden Nica", for their outstanding works. The winners in the five categories "Computer Animation/Visual Effects", "Digital Musics", "Interactive Art", ".net" and, since 1988, also "Cybergeneration - u19 freestyle computing" (a special category for Austrian youths) - are chosen by five juries of international experts. In addition to the book publication featuring the award-winning works, a DVD presents the winners in the "Computer Animation/Visual Effects" category and a compact disc of the prize-winning entries for "Digital Music" is available.
Texts by Pete Barr-Watson, Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schopf Price: £24.95
