This title is yet another experimental concept by Tiravanija of approaching his work through the point of view of a retrospective. Alongside designers M/M (Paris), Tiravanija conceived a way of visualizing his work in the form of a storyboard that includes images of each and every work he has made from 1989 to the present day. Conceived as an artist's book, it is at the same time Tiravanija's ...

Hello Spiral. If Francis Baudevin is known especially for his pictorial reappropriation of the graphic insignia of modernism, this book also reveals a collector and fine musical connoisseur. Through a long interview with Valrie Mavridorakis, the artist provides analysis, references, and interpretations on contemporary music, from rock to experimental. His remarks recall that the artistic scene, ..

Baldessaris cinema works primarily in the Space of the spectator and opens up the filmmaking field to other language forms, to other story telling procedures.

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 The publication also features previously unpublished works created in Santiago at a time when the artist was experiencing the ...

In her paintings and drawings, Dawn Mellor uses black humour to deconstruct the cult of the star which appears to have been chosen in our society as a substitute for religion and its believerthe fan. The majority of female protagonists in her works are music icons such as Madonna, Courtney Love or Britney Spears, but there are also appearances by film actresses and figures such as Audrey Hepburn,

Everywhere voices are raised: faced with the commodification of art, the streamlining of objects exhibited in international shows, the biennalization of the exhibition, and the star-status of the artist, practices based on the disruptive qualities of narration, failure, the weight of the unconscious and the repressed, burst out. This book, bringing together fifteen artists whose works range from .

Some Comparatistic Investigations On Research In Design & Art. Beyond the classic disciplinary boundaries, an almost ubiquitous demand for design competency currently manifests itself. Within future markets, which will increasingly and decisively be driven by the currency of attention, design is more and more faced with questions regarding the fabrication of meaningfulness and significance. This .

Zilla and the 7th Room. In Zilla Leuteneggers new book, the artists main character Zilla is given her own voice. The very personal narration accompanies the adventures of this alter-ego-character and explains works, drawings, and installations in the style of a grown-up childrens book. In addition to the works are academic texts by Beate Sontgen and Dorothee Messmer on Leuteneggers work, focusing

The work of Erik Steinbrecher (born 1963, Basel) has developed in two main directions: the areas of architecture and sculpture and the realm of photography. The artist not only realizes more and more projects in public spaces, but also takes a passionate interest in mass-media. Steinbrecher's Superfundi, a collection of photographs featuring hills, trenches, and graves, resembles a magazine. As a

For Every Dog a Different Master. Based on Sedas work for the Documenta 12, this book documents a complex and long-term project realised in Nova Lisen, Brno, Czech Republic, where the artist is living. Through the guise of a sort of mail art, Seda put in contact inhabitants of an housing project that went under renovation recently, breaking the conventions of addressing an audience in the art ...

Cellar Door. Cellar Door is a spectacle stretching in time and space. As an exhibition, it is so far the most ambitious project of French artist Loris Greaud, starting at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and continuing at the ICA London, conceived as musical in progress.