Roman Ondk works with drawing, performance, sculpture, and installation. In the Wiener Secession (2001), he had old cars parked behind the building for weeks, and in front of the Klnischer Kunstverein (2003), he organized queues. He photographs friends and acquaintances who do not like to travel and sends them around the world as postcards and artworks. For another work, he asked friends and ...

This illustrated publication includes work by 23 international artists of different generations that stand witness to the fact that the reflection on the Romantic is not just a negligible, minor aspect of the Conceptual, but central to it. The exhibits from early 1960s works to exclusive new productions bring into play a partly emphatic, partly critically humorous perspective onto romantic ...

Dutch-born Bas Jan Ader's work presented a unique combination of the conceptual, the emotional, and the real, whether in such iconic works as I'm Too Sad to Tell You (a film and photo series of himself weeping), the Fall series (of himself falling: into canals, off rooftops, out of trees), or his final piece that presumably claimed his life (and which is the focus of this book).

Providing a snapshot of contemporary art practice in Britain, this book explores a significant theme emerging from the work of the artists selected: the appropriation and re-casting of cultural material. A short essay accompanies the work of each of the thirty artists featured.

Wolfgang Tillmans is a superstar of 1990s photography, who revolutionized fashion photography while crossing into the highest ranks of the art world. This text covers his entire career, from the best-selling debut portraits in 1995, to his abstract works.

Jeroen de Rijke 1970 - 2006 and Willem de Rooij produced films and photographs, concentrating on a single take, action, or object. Using the disturbing beauty of familiar compositional and formal principles, their images questioned representation by over-determining their pictorial or compositional references. The artists made the qualities of film available as moving-image aggregates space and ..

Starting from the installation and series of glass paintings entitled Modernology, this catalogue presents Pumhosls ongoing involvement reflecting and integrating motifs, issues and materials of early non-western avant-gardes. While Sabeth Muchmann and Jan Verwoert are discussing Pumhosls works and strategies from two different perspectives, Thomas Hackners contribution provides an insight into ..

A collection of projects, texts and visual essays by leading contemporary artists and authors, focussing on personal approaches and perspective on spatial contexts.