"Georg Baselitz, geboren 1939 als Hans-Georg Kern in Deutschbaselitz, Sachsen, verstößt in seinem Werk kontinuierlich festgelegte Kategorien und Regelmäßigkeiten. Die Vieldeutigkeit seiner Werke ebenso wie die kunsthistorischen, zeitgeschichtlichen und biografischen Anspielungen und Bildreferenzen, die ironische Distanz und die Experimentierfreudigkeit machen deutlich, wie er seine Malerei unaufhörlich neu denkt und erfindet. In der Skul ..."
"This artist's book, conceived by Tobias Rehberger (born 1966), contains over 300 pages of images, based on views from an installation at the Hans Thoma Museum Bernau in Germany titled "The Great Disarray Swindle." For this work, the artist rigged the space with miles of cable and lamps in a looping disarray of twists and entanglements."
"The influence of the artist Kazimir Malevich was colossal from the start. Following his "Black Square" painting of 1915 and his formulation of Suprematism (defined as "an altogether new and direct form of representation of the world of feeling"), Malevich transmitted his ideas through his roving advocate El Lissitzky, whose "Proun" works prompted Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau, which itself fulfilled Malevich's aspiration for Suprematism that ..."
"In the 20-foot-high sky lighted halls at the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Daniel Buren performs most impressive site-speci'c interventions that engage Hermann Billing's neoclassicist exhibition building."
"Using a minimalist approach, Stefan Muller explores the depths of his paintings, though he often considers them finished at a very early point. The tiniest marks, seemingly random, sometimes suffice.""
"A survey of international art activities from around 1990, this volume features installations, films, projects and publications by more than 50 artists addressing the AIDS crisis, identity and gender, and globalization."
"Christopher Williams began his career in the late 1980s appropriating advertising imagery; more recently he has begun to mimic such imagery himself, or at least adapt its capacity for pristine presentation and technical precision. Williams' prints of industrial products, animals, plants, modernist architecture and people pull the rug from under commercial photography with the lightest of tugs."
"LightsGebundenes BuchDie Verwandlung von Farbe in Licht zählt zu den großen Themen der Malerei. Dan Flavin (1933-1996) nutzte Licht als Farbe und Werkstoff. Mittels profaner Leuchtstoffröhren entwickelte er eine radikal neue Kunstform, die das 'Bild' aus seinem Rahmen befreite und zum erhellenden Farbobjekt von raumgreifender Erscheinung machte. Die Erweiterung des Wandbildes zur Lichtinstallation korrespondiert mit der Befreiung des Li ..."
"This volume records two recent Demand projects: Embassy (2007) and Presidency (2008). For both series, Demand used images of an embassy interior and the Oval Office at the White House, and laboriously reconstructed the rooms as life-size models. After Demand photographed them, the rooms were destroyed, but this volume examines the entire process, from photograph to sculpture to photograph."
"The years 1955-1965 saw artists wreaking havoc with the parameters of painting. If Abstract Expressionists had proposed art as the manipulation of paint on a flat plane, the American artist Dan Flavin further refined art as the manipulation of light itself. Starting out as a convert to Abstract Expressionism in the late 1950s, Flavin quickly disposed of painting's -frame, - as sculptural light object. He first used fluorescent light in ..."
"This publication accompanies the largest exhibition to date of works by Cosima von Bonin (born 1962) in Austria, including more than 100 pieces. The retrospective demonstrates how von Bonin's art has shifted away from isolated sculpture to installation."
"Mixed up with others before we even begin" investigates models of thinking and working that reconcile different, sometimes contradictory entities within contemporary visual culture."
"This exhibition catalog of the work of Austrian artist (born 1952) Ernst Caramelle contains 600 reproductions of the artist's wall paintings, Gesso Pieces, drawings, watercolors, light works and prints. Caramelle's work addresses the themes of artistic productivity, the role of the artist, his involvement in the market and the museum, and negotiations between institutions and artists."
HAWSER / HOFER (Eloise Hawser / Kathi Hofer): MumoK - Museum für Moderne Kunst Wien by Barbara Rüdiger, Philipp Ekardt, KarolaKraus Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2016 by König, Walther ISBN-13: 978-3-86335-907-2, ISBN: 3-86335-907-0
"Uraguayan artist Alejandro Cesarco (born 1975) invokes the legacy of language- and literature-based conceptual art by the likes of Marcel Broodthaers or Lawrence Weiner. His text works, photographs, collages, films, artist's books and installations explore emotional dynamics in the language of interpersonal relationships and gender roles."
"On one hand, patchwork and decorative pattern, on the other, political and emancipatory claim aspirations: the Pattern and Decoration movement of the mid-'70s combined apparent contradictions in a reclamation of fantasy and color and a retort to the austerities of minimalism. Artists such as Polly Apfelbaum, Adriana Czernin, Brad Davis, Frank Faulkner, Tina Girouard, Dan Hays, Valerie Jaudon, Joyce Kozloff, Robert Kushner, Thomas Laniga ..."
"Demonstrating that the self-portrait has lost none of its relevance to contemporary art trends, this volume assesses the genre in the second half of the twentieth century. It includes examples by Bas Jan Ader, Joseph Beuys, General Idea, Martin Kippenberger, Maria Lassnig, Bruce Nauman, Albert Oehlen, Cindy Sherman, Katharina Sieverding and Andy Warhol."