A Tribute to Igor Zabel. The Slovenian curator, art critic, writer, and theorist Igor Zabel 1958-2005 was largely responsible for promoting the visibility of the Slovenian art scene in the international arena back in the 1990s. As Senior Curator of the Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana he was engaged in establishing links between Eastern and Western Europe without loosing a critical perspective on ...

This publication is concerned with play, mapping, and the experience of a collective writing. Thought of as a history, geography, and contemporary art book, it is the result of a series of delegations, invitations, and programs of those who conceived the Biennale event. Bringing together 70 players from around the world, divided into two groups according to whether they are artists or critics and

A central figure in Glasgows vibrant art scene, Luke Fowlers cinematic collages break down conventional approaches to biographical and documentary film-making. Fowlers films have often been linked to British Free Cinema, whose distinctive aesthetic cam.

Williams photographs, videos, installations, sculptures and performances study the conditions of presentation and representation and call into question spoon-fed perception and true-to-reality reproductions connected to the question of how our communication mechanisms and aesthetic conventions influence our perception and understanding of reality.

General Idea. Among artists magazines and periodicals, FILE Megazine occupies a very unique position between 1972 and 1989, the celebrated Canadian artists collaborative General Idea active 1969-1994 published 26 issues of this sophisticated, though self-published, magazine, which had a distribution extending far beyond its Toronto underground origins. Its name and logo adapted those of the ...

Works from the Ringier Collection. One of the most important contemporary art collections in Switzerland, the Ringier Collection is presented here through a selection of more than 400 works from artists ranging from John Baldessari from whom the title of this book has been borrowed, Richard Prince, and Fischli / Weiss, to Urs Fischer, Rodney Graham, Karen Kilimnik, and Trisha Donnelly. Organised .

Works 2004 - 2007. This new monograph on Ai Weiwei's work offers an overview of, and an in-depth reflection on, the artist's most vibrant and celebrated projects. Since 1993, Ai Weiwei has been working as an artist, architect, curator, author, and art critic in Beijing. For the first time a major monograph sheds light on the conceptual approaches and the meanings behind Ai Weiwei's work by ...

Matias Faldbakken is an artist and writer living in Oslo. Son of the celebrated Norwegian author Knut Faldbakken, he has published two novels, The Cocka Hola Company and Macht und Rebel under the alias Abo Rasul. Drenched with acid humor and continuously hitting below the waist, his books immediately caused a considerable stir in Norway. If, in these publications, he underlines the differences ...

The multitude of media and techniques used by Sterling Ruby in his workranging from sculpture to collage, installation to painting, ceramics to video and printingreflects the issues he tackles the conflict between individual impulses and mechanisms of.

Suspense. William Forsythe is one of the most significant and innovative choreographers working in the area of contemporary dance today. While director of the Ballet Frankfurt and now, with The Forsythe Company, he has transcended the boundaries of the genre, to great international acclaim. Working on the globes major stages, he has redefined the parameters of the performing arts. Presenting new .

Collection 1978 2008. The origins of the collection of the Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst date from the late 1950s. Initiated by the migros founder Gottlieb Duttweiler, the Museum in the late 1970s began focusing on collecting international contemporary art. This publication offers a wide overview focusing on the core pieces of the collection, which consists of around 400 artworks by ...

Some Faggy Gestures. Since the mid-1990s, Henrik Olesen has used media such as collage, sculpture, and minimalistic spatial intervention to investigate the social construction of identity and its historiography. Through the appropriation of source images and contextual shifts not dissimilar to the method invented by Aby Warburg for his Mnemosyne Atlas, Olesen probes the associations between ...

Visible Heavens from 1850 2008. Vancouver artist Andrew Dadson has based his book around a star map from 1850. The original map was photocopied, and each subsequent copy was re-photocopied. The slow degradation of the image marks the cultural shift within our interpretation of the stars constellation charts were called maps of the heavens but after 1975 they became known as maps of the sky and ...

Paintings and Sculptures 2004 2008. Over the past three decades, Carroll Dunham has developed an incisive stylistic form, which unfolds through all the various media he employs. In the 1990s, his claim to fame was a series of cartoon like organic figures engaged in a surreal battle of the sexes. At the turn of the 2000s, a single phallus-nosed character emerged, decked out in a formal suit and ...

99 07. This first monograph on the artwork of Tobias Putrih presents an extensive selection of works created between 1999 and 2007. Conceived as an archive of materials, both visual and textual, the publication illuminates the thought and methodology of the artist. His work, realised in aesthetically compelling sculptures and installations, involves a rigorous investigation of the promises and ...