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 ...

Swiss Art Now. Questions of changing values and shifting identities in the wake of globalisation play an important role for the current generation of young artists. The group exhibition Shifting Identities Swiss Art Now is dedicated to this theme and shows a total of 68 artists who address it in very different ways. It includes a mixture of Swiss and international artists - even though, here too,

Faces and Names. This publication presents a body of work by the American artist that is part of Banca della Svizzera Italiana (BSI) Art Collection. A small but representative selection of pieces, using a variety of techniques and stemming from different periods of Katzs production, is gathered in this book. The artist has provided technical comments and personal memories especially written for ..

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 ...

The Mexican artist Stefan Bruggemann is interested in words that become pictures and pictures that become words. In this way he questions the idea of transferring or mirroring information. Language becomes a way of remembering, of reflecting and refracting events. His laconic picture-signs act as memorials to language that must be reactivated. They create imaginary spaces or experiences for the ..

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 ...

This publication is presenting a selection of projects by artist Arcangelo Sassolino created between 2004 and 2008. Sassolino produces sculptural objects, often large in scale with a hard-edge industrial aesthetic and invariably physically imposing, that.

Louise Lawler's work (born 1947, Bronxville, New York) has focused on the presentation and marketing of artwork. Much of this work consists of photographs of other peoples' artwork and the context in which it is viewed. Examples of Lawler's photographs include images of paintings hanging on the walls of a museum, paintings on the walls of an art collector's opulent home, artwork in the process of

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 ...

With a subversive sense of humour, Justin Lieberman perverts and recontextualizes images from the media and pop culture in an attempt to undermine the organizational structures inherent in contemporary culture. Lieberman has long employed this sort of met.

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 ...

When Things Cast No Shadow. Both the 5th Biennale and its catalogue aim to trace the diversity of art practices today. This lavishly illustrated publication takes the form of a source book bringing together artists from different generation and nationalities. With texts by authors such as Georg Simmel, Oksana Bulgakowa, Bettina Vismann, Jrgen Mayer H., Pelin Tan, Beatriz Colomina, Francis Ponge, .