"Roman Opalka Painting ∞ provides an overview of more than five decades of the French-born Polish artist Roman Opalka's career. This beautifully designed fully illustrated catalogue features a text by curator and art historian Lorand Hegyi, a close friend of the artist; an essay by independent curator and historian Charles Wylie; an original text by French poet Jacques Roubaud; and a conversation between Marie-Madeleine Opalka, the artis ..."
"This title offers a magnificently illustrated overview of the work of contemporary Italian artist Marisa Albanese. Working across a variety of mediums - from photography to sculpture, video to installations - Italian artist Marisa Albanese challenges viewers to go beyond what is visible to the naked eye and explore the hidden reality of the world. This superbly illustrated volume, which features more than 100 full-colour and numerous fu ..."
"Braco Dimitrijevic gained international fame in the 1970s with his Casual Passersby series, in which gigantic photo-portraits of ordinary people were displayed on façades and billboards in European and American cities. In the early 1990s Dimitrijevic started a new cycle of portrait-installations, this time not using unknown people but artists, musicians and scientists better known for their achievements than for their names."
"To mark its twentieth anniversary, Saint-Etienne MA[copyright]tropole Museum of Modern Art is publishing a new catalogue of its 20th century collections, whose importance places the Museum in the ranks of the great national and international institutions of modern and contemporary art. With its wealth of nearly 15,000 works, 900 pieces of design and 2,000 photographs, the collection has been favoured with many loans and exhibitions, and ..."
"L'exposition de Bertrand Lavier propose une installation inédite. Composition en quatre couleurs, détail. 225 m2 de moquette. Un dessin et quatre couleurs jaune, bleu, noir, orange. Un motif familier. Difficile à identifier lorsqu'on déambule autour de la pièce. La moquette est posée à 40 cm du sol, sur un socle, et notre vision en est parcellaire, affleurante. Bertrand Lavier poursuit son travail de « déviation ». Recadrer un motif, tr ..."
"Since 1990, French-born artist Orlan has done seven plastic surgery "performances" which have radically reconstructed her face. She last added futuristic-looking pads of skin to each temple--utilizing the process which ordinarily constructs heightened cheekbones. In a 1998 digital photography series called "Self Hybridization," she montaged pictures of herself with images of Pre-Columbian, American Indian, African and "mutant" figures. ..."
"Il volume raccoglie questa serie di opere di Salvatore Garau - pittore, ma anche musicista e scrittore, caratteristiche non secondarie per comprenderne la poetica - in cui un ossessivo monocromatismo, fatto di sfumature di rosso, sembra evocare lo spirito delle lotte mitiche degli eroi di Wagner. Accompagnano le opere i testi critici di Lóránd Hegyi e dello stesso Garau."
"Darwin's RoomBroschiertes BuchAuf der diesjährigen Biennale von Venedig zeigt der Rumänische Pavillon Darwin's Room, eine Ausstellung mit Werken des 1977 geborenen Malers Adrian Ghenie. Der Titel bezieht sich zum einen auf eine kürzlich entstandene Serie hervorragender Porträts des großen Naturforschers, die teils auch gleichzeitig Selbstportraits sind. Zum anderen auf Ghenies Sicht des 20. Jahrhunderts als »evolutionärem Labor«, in dem ..."
"Il volume raccoglie le fotografie di Massimiliano Camellini e Yves Bresson, protagoniste della Mostra "La suite du temps" allestita presso la sede del Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Saint-Etienne Métropole (F) dal 14 febbraio al 17 maggio 2015. Ciò che lega il lavoro dei due artisti è la loro profonda ed empatica sensibilità verso gli oggetti abbandonati, dimenticati, appartenenti a una realtà materiale trascorsa, della quale n ..."
"Israeli-born visual artist and sculptor Micha Laury has lived and worked in Paris since 1974, though he began working as a self-taught artist at a kibbutz in 1967. The profound experiences in Israel during the first two decades of his life have proven fundamental to his multidisciplinary artistic development and critical stance towards practices in contemporary art, most notably in breaking with conventions governing representation of t ..."
"Published on the occasion of three exhibitions organized by the Musée d'Art Moderne of Saint-Etienne, this catalogue a selection of works by the late American artist Dennis Oppenheim. Over the last five decades, the artist worked through a variety of approaches including earthwork, performance, installation and public sculpture. Six key works from each period are showcased through text, ephemera and photo documentation."
Chung Sang-Hwa Painting Archeology by LórándHegyi, Oh Kwang-Su Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2011 by Musée Art Moderne ISBN-13: 978-89-956352-9-2, ISBN: 89-956352-9-0
Maurizio Nannucci There Is Another Way of Looking at Things (English, German and French Edition) by Maurizio Nannucci, LórándHegyi Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2012 by Silvana ISBN-13: 978-88-366-2400-3, ISBN: 88-366-2400-6
"Edition in three languages: French - English, German - Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole, 23 juin - 30 septembre 2012 - «Per la sua nuova installazione di neon al Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, alta 6 metri e larga 12, Nannucci tramuta tutto questo in una visione candida, granitica scultura di luce che domina lo spazio e lo inonda di un bagliore elettrico. Un muro bianco di parole vive nel vuoto della stanza e nell'e ..."
"Le catalogue présente les oeuvres de l’exposition du Cabinet d’arts Graphiques du Musée d’Art Moderne, consacrée à l’artiste Jean-Jacques Lebel, à ses collages des années 1960, à ses oeuvres techniques mixtes (dessins, collages), ainsi qu’à trois assemblages plus récents, dont l’oeuvre monumentale "Mur de douilles ouvragées par des poilus en 14/18", présentée récemment au Centre Pompidou Metz. Les oeuvres présentées dans l’ouvrage sont ..."