A Brief History of Curating. This publication is dedicated to pioneering curators and presents a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Anne DHarnoncourt, Werner Hoffman, Jean Leering, Franz Meyer, Seth Siegelaub, Walter Zanini, Johannes Cladders, Lucy Lippard, W.

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.

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 .

This monograph follows the development of Alfredo Jaar's work (born1956 Santiago, Chile; lives and works in New York), from his early public interventions to his latest installations, via his works on the gold miners in the Amazon and the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The publication also features previously unpublished works created in Santiago at a time when the artist was experiencing the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Theft is Vision. Gathering essays and interviews from 1995 to today, this book offers both an insight into Nickas vision on contemporary art and a portrait of the American art scene over the last few decades. Structured like a novel, this publication traces recent art production to Pop art and Appropriation art; reflects on the importance of Warhol, On Kawara, and Punk in contemporary culture, ...

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 ...

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 .

This first monograph is dedicated to the work of Pietro Roccasalva, one of the most singular and promising Italian artists in the post-Cattelan generation in Italy. His work is a visionary and erudite mix of conceptual rigour and hallucinatory extravaganza starting from painting as his main medium of expression and ranging from sculpture to installation, from tableaux vivants to drawing and film,

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 ...

Album is a deliberately unrepresentative compilation of genre-hopping textual and visual material, placed in orbit around the work of the Swiss artists Urs Fischer, Yves Netzhammer, Ugo Rondinone and Christine Streuli. The book includes specially commissioned critical texts, conversations, reports, and visual essays that, in a sometimes straight and sometimes vague manner, address the larger ...