"It has become almost obligatory to introduce a book on curating by noting the plethora of recent publications on the subject. How, in just a few short years, did we reach this point of saturation? What questions, exactly, do all these books address? Many attempt to offer an overview of the curatorial field as it exists today, or attempt to map its historical trajectory. Others propose a series of case studies under a common curatorial t ..."
""The Book of Books" offers an overview of Documenta 13's guiding themes through a compilation of art projects and essays. Documenta 13's Artistic Director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev has proposed the 2012 festival as a refusal of conceptual unity, instead "choreographing many different kinds of materials, methodologies and forms of knowledge." Responding to the political and economic uncertainty of our times, Christov-Bakargiev declares ..."
"In his paintings, Swiss artist Niklaus Manuel Güdel (born 1988) assigns a void to the actual pictorial subject: the people or animals he portrays are only roughly outlined, though we recognize the shapes--our brain fills in any visual absence. His most recent series "Comme un blanc" addresses the terrors of war."
"In a daring act of historical reconstruction, the celebrated curator Germano Celant, in dialogue with Thomas Demand and Rem Koolhaas, has recreated Harald Szeemann's epochal Live in Your Head. When Attitudes Become Form, held at the Bern Kunsthalle in 1969, and installed by Celant at the magnificent Ca' Corner della Regina in Venice in June-November 2013. Szeemann's show was very much a dialogue with the interior of the Bern Kunsthalle, ..."
". Estudio de la obra más reciente de Emilia Azcárate centrada en su relación vital con lo espiritual. . Se recogen tres cuerpos de trabajo: las Practicables, Postales y la serie de los Gohonzon, donde incorpora procesos, ideas y estéticas ligadas a su vida y a su práctica espiritual, el budismo nichiren. . Estas obras se suman a los planteamientos estéticos y conceptuales recurrentes en la obra de la artista, y configuran abiertamente d ..."
"This catalogue documents the Second Athens Biennale, for which seven curators were invited to contemplate heaven. The six exhibitions they produced featured more than 130 artists. The book includes texts by the curators, architects, artists and scholars and is illustrated with works by the participating artists."
Clemens Krauss(1st Edition) Kontinuitäten ; [Kunstverein Augsburg, 5.8. - 23.9.2007]. [Gestaltung: Matthias Friederich ; Alexander Nowak. Übers.: Mitch Cohen .] by Clemens Krauss, Matthias Friederich, Christian Thöner, Julia Höner, ChúsMartinez Broschiert, 128 Pages, Published 2008 by König, Walther ISBN-13: 978-3-86560-347-0, ISBN: 3-86560-347-5
ChusMartínez Unexpress the Expressable: 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: Documenta Series 075 (100 Notes - 100 Thoughts / 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken: Documenta 13) by ChúsMartinez Paperback, 24 Pages, Published 2012 by Hatje Cantz ISBN-13: 978-3-7757-2924-6, ISBN: 3-7757-2924-0
"Published in conjunction with the Documenta 13 exhibition in Kassel, Germany, the Documenta notebook series 100 Notes,100 Thoughts ranges from archival ephemera to conversations and commissioned essays. These notebooks express director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev’s curatorial vision for Documenta 13."
Alejandro Jodorowsky 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: Documenta Series 014 (100 Notes - 100 Thoughts/100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken) (English and German Edition) by Alejandro Jodorowsky, ChúsMartinez Paperback, 48 Pages, Published 2011 by Hatje Cantz ISBN-13: 978-3-7757-2863-8, ISBN: 3-7757-2863-5
"This selection from a 1974 notebook by legendary Chilean director, cartoonist, composer and visual artist Alejandro Jodorowsky collects his researches on the history of the Marseille tarot deck, including conversations and studies in the form of texts, collages and diagrams."