Badischer Kunstverein 2004
194 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3893091068
22.5 x 31.5 cm English/German text. Hardcover
Price: £24.50
Museo Archeologico Naples 2004
268 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 885100272X
24 x 28 cm English/Italian text. Softcover
£29.99
Selected works from the oeuvre of British artist Damien Hirst. Exhibition catalogue Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Napoli, Italy 2004. Price: £29.99
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Holwarth Publications 2000
112 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3000063927
29 x 31 cm English/German/Spanish text. Softcover, slip case
In this book Albert Oehlen publishes two groups of works which he has made in the last three years: the grey paintings and the posters created on a computer. Summary of Contents addresses the question as to the contents of his work.
The book mixes the “abstract” paintings and the “concrete” ink jet plots in an unstructured sequence. Visual patterns from daily life are concentrated in them. Formal creation and artistic technique are the means employed. Like a sculpture chiseled out of one block, they bore down towards one single core.
Oehlen works on the “picture that one sees and does not analyze but simply perceives.” His pictures do not seek the support of fixed messages and do not anticipate their interpretation. The picture does not legitimize itself, does not exercise control over its viewer. It becomes autonomous and offers an open dialogue. In the moment of encounter the act of seeing strikes like lightning.
Today Albert Oehlen has the reputation of being one of the most compelling painters in Germany and exercises an influence upon his generation like that of Georg Baselitz, Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke upon theirs. Price: £33.95
Koenig Books London 2005
140 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3883759732
25 x 27.5 cm English text. Hardcover
This is the first in a series of supplementary volumes to be published on The Saatchi Gallery’s renowned collection of paintings. This volume has been produced alongside Part 2 of The Triumph of Painting exhibition at The Saatchi Gallery (until October 2005) and features key works by six important artists. Painting, once declared to be on the verge of irrelevance, has regained a privileged status. The medium’s tactility, uniqueness, mythology and inherent ambiguities have allowed painting to become an open-ended vehicle for both the artist and the viewer. The work of these six artists reflects upon the medium’s own history in the age of mechanical reproduction. Includes an essay by Alison Gingeras and biographies by Patricia Ellis. Price: £16.50
MoMA NY 2005
144 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0870700804
33.5 x 25.5 cm English text. Hardcover
The German artist Thomas Demand occupies a singular position in the world of photography. Initially a sculptor, he took up photography to record the ephemeral constructions he made out of paper. In 1993, he turned the tables, henceforth making constructions only in order to photograph them. Demand begins by translating a pre-existing image, usually culled from the media, into a life-size model he makes out of coloured paper and cardboard. He re-creates a room, a parking lot, a staircase, or a fluorescent light fixture; then he photographs a model and destroys it. Demand's photographs look at once compellingly real and strangely artificial. Since their subjects - handcrafted facsimiles of both architectural spaces and natural environments - are themselves built in the image of other images, the photographs are three times removed from the scenes they seem to depict. Combining craftsmanship and conceptualism in equal parts, Demand pushes the medium of photography towards uncharted frontiers. Given the cinematic quality of many of his photographs, it is not surprising that he has set some of them in motion, producing five 3mm films. This comprehensive publication presents all of Demand's major works from 1993 to the present. It includes previously unpublished archival documentation, offering unprecedented insight into his working process and the stories behind his pictures. Price: £21.95
Black Dog Publishing 2005
192 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1904772242
15.5 x 20 cm English text. Softcover
takes the reader on a sometimes tongue-in-cheek journey through some of the key dilemmas facing artists working today. The book, referring to the 'political' art of Bob and Roberta Smith, is organised into three main sections, the first being an Introduction to Smith's work by the Bremen-based radical freelance curator Horst Griese.
Accompanying Griese's Introduction and the interviews between Collings and Smith is the fullest visual ccounting to date of the work of Bob and Roberta. Ranging from the staging of agit-prop situations to fly-posting to the production of limited edition multiples and pop recordings, Bob and Roberta Smith's artworks provide an acerbic and entertaining commentary on
recent and contemporary practice. At once celebratory and cautionary Make Your Own Damn Art provides an accessible and intelligent introduction to anyone interested in the significance of art now. Price: £16.95
Hatje Cantz 2005
288 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3775715991
24.5 x 17.5 cm English/German text. Hardcover
Martha Rosler is the recipient of the "Spectrum" - International Prize for Photography 2005 awarded by the Stiftung Niedersachsen. This book presents her photographic series in honor of the occasion.
Martha Rosler is one of the most politically motivated artists of her generation. Most of the encounters that unfold in Rosler's works originate in seemingly ordinary everyday situations: scenes of domestic life or everyday activities such as shopping, watching the news, reading the newspaper, or traveling. Her photographs shed light on the many ways in which these routines are governed by social norms.
The photographic series featured in this book-works from the eighties to the present-are also devoted to these themes. They are studies of the highways and byways of daily life, views of roads, subway tunnels, airports, shopping districts, parking lots, and the like. These astonishing documents of the photographic passion of the iconoclast Martha Rosler also offer critical insights into day-to-day movements within rigidly structured relationships of power. Price: £29.99
Rockin'on 2005
168 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 4860520343
17.5 x 21.5 cm Japanese text. Softcover slip-case
Price: £18.00
Kunsthaus Bregenz 2005
128 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3883758469
29 x 31 cm English/German text. Hardcover
Jenny Holzer new work explores the United States government’s complex political and commercial relations with the Middle East from the end of the Second World War to the present, the United States’ current “war” on terrorism, the consequences of 9/11 and ensuing debate, the theory and practice of intelligence and counter-intelligence, and the problem of achieving a just and workable balance between secrecy and transparency. TRUTH BEFORE POWER, the title of Holzer’s Bregenz project, alludes to “Estimates and Influence,” an essay published in 1968 arguing that unbiased intellectual rigor must be the first principle of intelligence work, written by Sherman Kent, one of the founders of the CIA. Price: £35.00
Revolver 2003
268 pages Colour and B&W reproductions.ISBN 3936919569
24 x 30.5 cm English text. Softcover
Price: £18.50
Whitney Museum of American Art 2005
224 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 8742714440
25 x 28 cm English text. Hardcover
Known primarily for his large-scale kinetic and sound-producing sculptures, Tim Hawkinson has also created important works in photography, drawing, printmaking, and painting, on scales ranging from miniature to monumental. Anticipating the do-it-yourself aesthetic that has recently become so ubiquitous, Hawkinson has been using found objects and handcrafted materials and machines since the mid-1980s to create idiosyncratic works that are intensely personal yet almost scientific in the rigorousness of their processes. The central subject of Hawkinson's work is his own body, which he uses as a starting point for investigations into material, perception, and time. His analytical approach is often balanced by a suggestion of spirituality, though in other works, he reduces his "self" to a simple machine effect. While Hawkinson's work has appeared in numerous recent group exhibitions, including the 2002 Whitney Biennial, he has not had a comprehensive solo show since the 1996 exhibition, Humongolous, organized by the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center. The present exhibition and accompanying catalogue will significantly expand and extend public knowledge and appreciation of this seminal artist's work. With a lead essay by curator Lawrence Rinder, the catalogue will also include essays by Los Angeles County Museum of Art curator Howard Fox and art critic Doug Harvey, and a comprehensive biography and bibliography. The artist's influences and historical context will be considered as well as the many interlocking themes evident in his extensive oeuvre. All works in the exhibition will be illustrated in full colour. Price: £35.00
Holwarth Publications 2003
176 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3935567014
16.5 x 16.5 cm English/German text. Hardcover
“With the exhibition Albert Oehlen—Terminal Refreshment, the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hanover is presenting at the beginning of the new century one of the most important contemporary artists.
In the visual worlds of Oehlen, the visual worlds of our time explode. A scurrilous kaleidoscope comes into being. The most diverse levels of reality penetrate each other, flanked by imperative messages such as ‘Dig deeper, my beauties, you’ll find something’, ‘In the land of motifs no more light burns’ or ‘Abstract painting must die’.” — From the press release of the Kestner Gesellschaft
The catalogue Terminal Refreshment is a congenial supplement to the exhibition and to the artist’s book Summary of Contents. In three volumes (brochures) fixed into a folding case, the viewer surfs through Oehlen’s kaleidoscopic visual worlds and proceeds upon an individually selected path, just as in the exhibition. The case is the size of a CD. With complete biography and bibliography. Price: £27.95
Hatje Cantz 2004
384 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3775715479
17.5 x 24.5 cm English text. Hardcover
The humorous art of Erwin Wurm has many fans worldwide. This extensive volume presents a large variety of his works from the past ten years.
Austrian artist Erwin Wurm has gained an international reputation for challenging traditional notions of sculpture, photography, performance art, and drawing. His classic One Minute Sculptures invite audiences to participate in the creation of temporary sculpture by combining their bodies with a variety of common objects according to the artist's instructional drawings. Erwin Wurm: I Love My Time, I Don't Like My Time, a comprehensive survey, highlights more than ten years of production. It includes staged situations for the creation of selected One Minute Sculptures; the photo series Instructions for Idleness (2001); Instructions on How to be Politically Incorrect (2002-03); Thinking About Philosophers (2002-04), and Hotel Rooms (2001); along with a selection of videos such as 59 Positions (1992), Flight Simulator (1998), and Adelphi Sculptures (1999). The centerpiece is the Fat House/I Love My Time, I Don't Like My Time (2003), the latest in Wurm's Fat series that explores the wild and dark potential of digital animation. Price: £29.99
Craftsman House 2004
112 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0975196510
24 x 24 cm English text. Softcover
From the day he left art school, Ricky Swallow has been making waves in the contemporary Australian and International art scenes. His idiosyncratic approach to art has made Swallow a unique figure. He is not only a true craftsman, meticulously sculpting and creating his complex works, but has also established a visual language that is very much his own. Many of his earlier works draw on the popular culture around him - Darth Vader, The Planet of the Apes, DJ culture - while more recently he has articulated aspects of his own personal life. Swallow's creation of his own aesthetic was recognized early, when he was awarded the prestigious Contemporary 5 Art Award in 1999, at the age of 25. Swallow is now highly regarded internationally, with solo exhibitions in Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dunedin, Auckland, Wellington, Oslo, Sydney and his native Melbourne. Price: £16.95
The Vanity Press 2004
156 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 095483660X
16 x 21.5 cm Softcover
Price: £12.50
San Francisco Cinematheque 2004
64 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0974999601
15.5 x 23 cm English text. Softcover
13.50
Through rarely published images and a quartet of imaginative essays, "City Slivers and Fresh Kills" establishes Matta-Clark's films as perhaps his most surprising - and certainly his most viscerally arresting - body of work, characterized by the same creative provocation, rough aesthetic beauty and intellectual insight that informed all of the anarchitect's famous cuttings, slicings and revelations. Price: £13.50
Holzwarth Publications 2005
36 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3935567316
31 x 31 cm English/German text Hardcover
Albert Oehlen’s Mirror Paintings are mirror paintings in the truest sense of the word. They form a significant group of works in which the painter investigated pictorial space and spatial effects during the 1980s. As the artist himself pointed out, mirrors have always been depicted in art. But in his constant search for deeper meaning, Oehlen included real mirrors in these works, thus subverting their iconographical significance. The viewer is invited into the picture only to be thrown back at the same time. Real space in front of the painting becomes collaged with the pictorial space.
Albert Oehlen (born 1954 in Krefeld) is an internationally recognized protagonist of painting. By continuously questioning the genre, he redefined the panel picture. His “post-non-figurative” painting is a medium of criticism that mischievously turns the classic concept of the image as well as middle-class values upside down.
This is the first book dealing specifically with Albert Oehlen’s Mirror Paintings. Its contents and chronology take up where the publisher's Albert Oehlen: Gemälde Paintings 1980–1982, which is now out of print, left off. Like the other volumes about the art of the 1980s published in cooperation with the Galerie Max Hetzler, it shows that the art production of that time is of undiminished relevance today. Price: £24.00
Milton Keynes Gallery 2005
80 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0954471520
24 x 33 cm English text. Softcover
14.00
Best known for his playful sculptural interventions in the fabric of everyday life, Wilson made a series of sculptures or performative structures that directly engage the body. These large, galvanised steel structures, influenced by cattle markets and animal pens, retained a distinct agricultural character. Previously exhibited in outside locations, at MK-G they were seen inside, engaging the specific architecture of the gallery. MK-G placed a number of Wilson’s sculptures in offsite locations within Milton Keynes including The Open University Campus. Price: £14.00
Museum Franz Gertsch 2005
104 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3775715835
22.5 x 28.5 cm English/German text. Hardcover
Without Color presents an important group of paintings from Gerhard Richter's oeuvre: works that do without colour-the material on which the painter ordinarily relies. The (non-)colours of black, white and gray have always played an important role in Richter's art. The broad, fascinating spectrum of these colourless paintings ranges from representational works based on black-and-white photographs to entirely abstract paintings and spans a period of four decades from the early 1960s to the present. The leading painter of our time needs no more than a palette of grays to create impressive works in the traditional genres of history painting, portraiture, landscape, and still life. He explores the fundamental aspects of painting in images composed of streaks of gray, overpainting, monochrome gray colour fields and mirror mirrors. The outcome is a cross-section that incorporates everything painting can mean today-while focusing on the innermost essence of painting through the paradoxical renunciation of colour. Price: £24.95
La Galerie de Noisy-le-Sec 2004
160 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3883757942
23 x 28.5 cm English/French/Arabic text. Softcover
Walid Raad (born 1967 in Lebanon) produces performances, video and photographs. He founded The Atlas Group in 1999, a fictitious archive consisting of lectures, documentaries and installations about the civil war in Lebanon. With this archive he has created an alternative world, although the texts and picture material he employs are in a conventional format. This enables Raad to portray the conflict in Lebanon not as a historical fact but as an abstract composition of memories and media reports. In The Fakhouri File Walid Raad documents the historical figure of Dr. Fadi Fakhouri, a leading Lebanese historian of the civil war up till his death in 1998, through the medium of notebooks, videos and photographs. Price: £26.00
Thames & Hudson 2005
300 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0500285659
18.5 x 22 cm English text. Softcover
Since the atrocity of September 11 2001, Osama bin Laden has attained a quasi-mythical status. Is he the evil mastermind of a global terror network, a media-savvy holy warrior, or simply a devil of our own creation? What kind of world gives rise to such a figure? In October 2002 Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell spent two weeks in Afghanistan as war artists researching the aftermath of September 11 and the war in Afghanistan for the Imperial War Museum in London. They visited a diverse range of locations, including Bagram, the main American air base, where General Franks was on a flying visit to see his troops; Bamyan, the site of the giant Buddhas destroyed by the Taliban; the Supreme Court in Kabul, where they attended and filmed the first capital trial since the fall of the Taliban and, after a long and difficult journey, the former home of Osama bin Laden at Daruntah. This book illustrates and documents the artists' journey to Afghanistan by means of their own photographs and diary entries, interspersed with the artworks made on their return to England, which have won them the BAFTA award for Interactive Arts Installation and a nomination for the 2004 Turner Prize. Price: £18.95
ARTicle Press 2004
376 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1973352093
15 x 21 cm English text. Softcover
The work of Heather & Ivan Morison is at once a celebration of and a reflection on the simple pleasures. It mirrors the passion, process and beauty of the subjects and people that they meet while travelling, be they an astronomer, an ice fisherman, floristry, a beekeeper, a pig farmer, java sparrows, fungi, science fiction or wildflowers to name a few. They observe and collect the things they come into contact with, embracing chance encounters and seeking out subjects which are on the edge, the periphery of daily life. The incidental, the unusual, the hidden and the unforeseen, all are considered without judgement and brought together in an attempt to provide insight, to investigate the things that surround us and to shed light on our place within these things. Part documentary, part dissemination of information which attracts them with some strange fascination, the artists take delight in revealing the essence of the mundane and its particularities and peculiarities and throughout their practice have maintained specific formal and conceptual strategies as a means to manifest their observations. Price: £12.00
Taschen 2000
176 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3822888761
22.5 x 30 cm English/German/French text. Boxed Edition signed and numbered limited edition of 170
This artist's book and accompanying collage have been designed by Albert Oehlen in an edition of 170 numbered and signed copies. Price: £210.00
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain 2005
168 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 2742753478
23 x 28.5 cm English/French text. Hardcover
Hiroshi Sugimoto's Fondation Cartier catalogue from 2005 Price: £29.50
